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    Broken leg, help!

    Hi cstrick23, Relax you are doing very well. I've had 2 Chook's break legs, neither had broken skin, i applied Arnica Cream all over the leg, took a Sanitary Pad with the sticky strip down the middle of the outside. ( I didn't have Popsicle Stick's but 2 of them i would think would be...
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    Egg Bound?? Postmortem showed more than a litre of water in Bowel??

    Thanks Guys i appreciate your kind words
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    Egg Bound?? Postmortem showed more than a litre of water in Bowel??

    Hi Everyone, Well what a day, After i got the men away, i wasn't left alone long enough to get the pics done. This afternoon i realized that one of my cats Tessie Bloomers looked like she had had a stroke, i rush to the vets and we have had to put Tessie Bloomers down. When she was about...
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    Egg Bound?? Postmortem showed more than a litre of water in Bowel??

    Morning Casportpony, I will get the men off to work, then take pics. i should have before i burst the bags. oh well, we do these things..grin
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    Egg Bound?? Postmortem showed more than a litre of water in Bowel??

    Morning again, Sorry the pictures didn't load until i had finished my last reply so i didn't see them, looking at the diagram showing the Coaeca looking like a large 3 pronged fork, that is what was full of water, it explains the 2 bags each side of the very large bag, what is the middle stem...
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    Egg Bound?? Postmortem showed more than a litre of water in Bowel??

    Goodmorning Flockmaster, I can but unfortunately i punchered the bag in order to find out just how much water was in the bags, but i can lay it all out, and let you see what i'm talking about, if you think that will help. these bags were so heavy that i couldn't move the chook once they had...
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    Egg Bound?? Postmortem showed more than a litre of water in Bowel??

    Hi Flockmaster, Thank you for replying, i don't know enough about what i was looking at to say, i traced the tubing from the large bag back to a connecting point with what i would have said was the collection point of where the uterus and the bowel came together. But i don't really know. I...
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    Egg Bound?? Postmortem showed more than a litre of water in Bowel??

    Hi Kim and Chicken Zoo, Kim the website you sent talks about fluid in the body cavity, and ChickenZoo's angle of the needle supports that as well, however, this fluid was in a bag,with the 2 smaller bags or compartments which were a part of the main bag. Tracing the line back, from the bag, i...
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    Egg Bound?? Postmortem showed more than a litre of water in Bowel??

    Hi Chicken Zoo, Thank you for your reply as well, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascites Ascites, very good explantion at wikipedia, doesn't say anything about chickens, just humans, but sounds very interesting, and a possibility.
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    Egg Bound?? Postmortem showed more than a litre of water in Bowel??

    Hi Kim, Thanks for your reply, no i'm not a vet, but after 5yrs of having chickens with Coccidia and Maricks Disease i have become desensitized to having to put some wonderful chickens down, some really good friends. Before having chickens i couldn't kill anything, and we still can't eat our...
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    Egg Bound?? Postmortem showed more than a litre of water in Bowel??

    Does anyone know what my 4yr old chicken my have had? At first i noticed she was waddling, picking her up i discovered her belly was huge, and very hot. I asumed she was egg bound, (never had one before) put my finger inside with glove on, i could feel an egg which felt like it was the head...
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    Stroke like symptoms

    Stroke like symptoms Does anyone know what the following symptoms might be? I have had 4 birds die over the last 6 months, since the first death I have slowly put a pattern together of what happens. At first the chook, starts sitting around, still has an appetite but doesn’t eat as much as...
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    ELYE-1 Egg Incubator takes 88 eggs

    Thanks Silkiechicken, i guess i stop Panicking and stand back.. And i will take your advice and stop putting eggs in the incubator and wait and get a batch.
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    Incubator Newbie Advice

    "Lockdown is the last three days of incubation when you should not turn the eggs, increase the humidity, and wait for your chicks to hatch. Although not everyone is as strict on lockdown and I'm one of those and have never had a problem. " (haven't learn't how to copy it from another post) any...
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    ELYE-1 Egg Incubator takes 88 eggs

    I have brought the ELYE-1 Egg Incubator takes 88 eggs Has anyone else got one of these and can help me out with humidity please. The manual doesn't tell you a lot, i have had to search on line and i'm a little confused as to what humidity i should have it at. When i first turned it on, i put...
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