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    Chickens sick or dying, are they just getting old?

    My flock is 4 years old this spring. I had one bird I had to euthanize because of ascites about 6 months ago, one bird had internal egg problems about two months ago and had to be euthanized, one bird recently I found dead under the roost and I am assuming it was a liver problem (did a quick...
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    Hen sudden death, should I necroscopy?

    Casportpony, could you please tell me what you see in the liver that makes it look diseased? The closest I've been to a standard for chicken livers is the grocery store and those are from young meat chickens, so it didn't look unusual to me other than being small and having those little stones...
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    Hen sudden death, should I necroscopy?

    Sorry forgot the pic of the heart, you can see it in this picture.
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    Hen sudden death, should I necroscopy?

    One showing the crop partially cut open and the rest of the cavity, you can see the dark blood clot or whatever it is around the organs in the back.
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    Hen sudden death, should I necroscopy?

    OK here's a general view from when I first opened her (please excuse the terrible job I did, it was outside and cold and raining and I didn't have poultry shears). The dark thing with the yellow small object on it is the liver I believe with one of the liver stones I dug out of it.
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    Hen sudden death, should I necroscopy?

    OK so I got impatient waiting for an answer and went ahead and did it. I only noticed that there was a large what looked to be blood clot in the body cavity, but I couldn't tell where it had come from. There was no shelled egg in the oviduct, there were several yolks in various stages but no...
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    Hen sudden death, should I necroscopy?

    I went out to my coop this afternoon to check on my hens and my EE was dead under the (low) roost on her stomach. I didn't look in on them yesterday because we have a very sick dog that we're going back and forth to the vet and the store for, it's been very stressful. It appears she hadn't laid...
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    How long does the pecking order take???

    I adopted two hens into my already established flock about three years ago, the Maran was a bully and did some damage to one of my orps. I used Pinless Peepers on her and it seemed to help some, at least with the pecking damage. YMMV. I also think beak "trimming" is horrific, it's like cutting...
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    Chick getting feathers plucked off

    Good point, I think I'll put together another storage bin brooder tomorrow and split the group up. I can't connect two due to space issues. I have her separated but in the same brooder right now so hopefully that will help for the time being. I have a jersey giant in there too and she's pretty...
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    Chick getting feathers plucked off

    I have a blue laced red Wyandotte chick, 4 and a half weeks old, somewhat smaller than the other chicks with her (which are the same age). The whole back of her neck is plucked and rough, I am assuming it's the other chicks doing it. I don't see any blood though. None of the other chicks have...
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    Ascites in a not-laying laying hen, safe to eat?

    I guess I didn't do enough (or a good enough) search on here, here's a thread. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/can-i-eat-it.417609/ I'd like to say though, that bacteria are all around us. Avoiding meat that's been exposed to "bacteria" just isn't possible, sorry. Also I have no way of...
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    Ascites in a not-laying laying hen, safe to eat?

    I am super sad, I had to put down my lovely French splash Maran today because she wasn't moving (she was unable to stand up and I couldn't tell if it was a leg problem or what, at the time) and I found out she had ascites (I've never encountered this before, this is my first flock). Is it safe...
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    Chickens laying like midsummer only it's not.

    It actually was very cold from about Christmas until maybe a week ago. It has been clearer than usual though so I'm thinking maybe it seems like the sun is going down later just because it's not so cloudy right now. Yeah, I guess I shouldn't be too annoyed at eggs, lol, they could quit any time.
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    Chickens laying like midsummer only it's not.

    I have several strings of white LED Christmas lights strung in the coop and in the yard. It's pretty bright out there when they come on, which they are doing at 4AM.
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    Chickens laying like midsummer only it's not.

    Mine didn't start laying again last winter til April, and even though we've just passed the solstice, my latitude is further north than yours plus we tend to be cloudy here. Got four more eggs today.
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