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    Ended 2019 BYC Calendar - We Need Your Pictures!

    DSC_9740 by lampe731 posted Aug 14, 2018 at 11:44 PM PeepPeep looks out on a cold day DSC_4319 by lampe731 posted Aug 14, 2018 at 11:44 PM MiniMe and her chicks.
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    MiniMe and her chicks
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    PeepPeep looks out on a cold day
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    necropsy ///GRAPHIC PICTURES/// Merek's?

    Thanks everyone, for the kind words. What a week. Yes, I feel like I'm pretty sure my flock has Merek's. I just wanted to see if anyone else saw anything in the "necropsy" that maybe I missed. I did think the intestines looked different from most of the pictures I saw. Thanks again.
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    Ascites, hard mass and maggots?

    maybe fly strike? If any of the maggots got in her ( you said the wound was near her vent?) that could be bad :( Have you seen any more maggots since you cleaned her up? Maybe try giving her some olive oil via syringe to help flush anything thru? Sorry about your hen :( Hopefully someone with...
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    Pullet with legs stuck past her face... Marek's?

    maybe try some Vitamin B in her water (just crush up a pill if you have some around) http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/167/vitamin-b-deficiencies/
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    necropsy ///GRAPHIC PICTURES/// Merek's?

    Hello BYCers, can you help me? So I just did a necropsy best I could on my hen Salt. (about 18mo-2yrs of age got her as a pullet) Around the end of April she started limping. No sign of injury or bumble foot. By June 1st I had her in isolation as she couldn't get in and out of the coop any...
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    History of a coop- please help solve this mystery

    Thank you both so much for your kind words. I think you both are right. I'm going to try to look at this as an excuse to get some new adorable chicks. I am hoping to have a necropsy done to hopefully get an insight, maybe even try to get some blood work done to see if it is Merck's (although I...
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    History of a coop- please help solve this mystery

    Not sure if you guys are following this anymore but I did want to let you know that Nugget died about a week after my last post. It was heartbreaking because she has started looking and acting better- and then she just completely stopped eating. I now have another sick hen (Betty). Swollen...
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    History of a coop- please help solve this mystery

    My problem doesn't seem to be seasonal. Two of the hens haven't laid since last year.... As for feed I will compare labels. I know the feed from highland is fresh because they make it especially for the group I buy in bulk with. I will compare nutrition facts. I know the protein is higher in my...
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    History of a coop- please help solve this mystery

    Thanks both of you! All of this is great info- Haunted I understand about your friend being of the mindset "doesn't want it, so doesn't have it." I'm going to try not to fall into that trap but it is seductive. I have put the ACV in the waterers and have been making a ACV mash with crushed...
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    History of a coop- please help solve this mystery

    Haunted- Interesting info!!! Scary too- I had no idea Mt. Healthy was having issues- I heard about the salmonella outbreak linked to them (or was it e.coli?) but I think I had bought before that hit. Can you ever put birds back into a place that once had Marek's safely? If it is Marek's should I...
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    History of a coop- please help solve this mystery

    Thank Naunnie I found the bragg's you talked about. When I refresh their water in the morning I will add a tsp and work up to a Tbls over the next week. I checked my seven dust- it says it is 5% so hopefully that is ok. I've never actually seen them pick at the nuts- but I suppose it is an...
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    History of a coop- please help solve this mystery

    Thanks for the suggestions Naunnie- I will pick up the ACV tonight at the store. Can I get it at a regular grocery? I have regular old ACV in the pantry but not "with the mother". The hens are mostly in a run- the coop is the back side of our "garage" (built in 1910- repurposed as a coop for...
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