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Thanks @Eggcessive and @casportpony Those pics help a lot. Really this liver looks most like the leukosis one and the symptoms from wikipedia match very well. "Symptoms include enlargement of abdomen, bursa, weight loss, weakness and emaciation, and depression. The disease is more likely to...

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i would be really interested in the Mereks liver pics. Mystery deaths affected only one pen and that pen is the only one that had chicks from another source

I have had a hen with fatty liver disease and this is not it. This bird weighed almost nothing and had no fat in her

I have butchered a lot of chickens over the years but this I have not seen before. I've had several mystery deaths in point of lay pullets that I was not able to examine. This was the last one. Seemingly fine one day and dead the next. The body cut open you can see how enormous the liver is and...

please enter any other breed. This girl is mixed breed about 3 years old. Poor thing has been naked for weeks

I think they would be hawk snacks too. But I have a Maremma that barks off a lot of predators including hawks.

LoL; my cat were raised in the chicken house to keep them safe from coyotes and owls when they were small. They still go in and out and frequently nap in the nest boxes so my birds just ignore them. Unless the cats are trying to eat chicken feed, then they get pecked on the head

Ah the joys of a long distance two language relationship Glad to know no one was bitten by the sneak and no one got fired over it and that your wife was on hand to translate Actually for as much as you have going on there, with you being in the states, you and your employees do really well.

Sounds like everything is coming together! Good for you Oz! I am hoping perhaps to be close to breaking even by the end of this year myself. These birds need to start paying their way!

Tractor Supply has leaflets near the electric fence supplies that should tell you how to set it up. You can also find a lot of info if you google it. Basically just remember that the hot wire has to make a complete circuit, i.e. can't just run out there and quit, the wire has to make a loop...

I would call your city and ask them. They are the ones that should know all the rules and regs.

Chickens can have both round and tape worms no matter what they are eating. Most of the time if my birds have feed left over it just dries out. I would think it would have to stay pretty wet to either continue fermenting or grow bacteria. Of course my relative humidity here is only about 10%

It sounds like things are really beginning to take off for you! I am almost done hatching for myself at the moment, will do a few more hatches to fill some standing orders then done until fall. I just don't have the time, space and money to feed any more. Even at that most of this years males in...

How funny my ducks gobble up the fermented feed the same as the chickens; in fact have two Welsh Harlequin girls in the layer house and they are first in the feed trough, but they were hatched and raised eating it....

the picture that flashed in my head; a giant cabinet, long and narrow, push in a cart of eggs, tomorrow push in another cart, pushing the 1st cart farther along, continue, on day 21 on the other end of the cabinet, out comes a cart full of chicks ;-)

Could be any number of things, fatty liver disease will do just what you are describing. Also some birds become internal layers and if you open them up their abdomen is full of egg liquid along with odd lumps of shell and membranes. Just like not all women are fertile or have regular ovulation...

I just love how this thread wanders all over ;-) (period paint colors) Oz you should post some of your brooders and coops on the new FB page https://www.facebook.com/breedingsetups?fref=ts

I haven't made mayo in years and years but the biggest trick is to add to oil almost drop by drop while blending.

you have to have a solid male and barred females to get sexlinked chicks that you can sex at hatch. BOxBR will give you all silver cockerels with black & gold pullets