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    Enlarged liver with white nodules

    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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    Enlarged liver with white nodules

    Thanks will do. I
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    Enlarged liver with white nodules

    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
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    Enlarged liver with white nodules

    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
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    Enlarged liver with white nodules

    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...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2015

    please enter any other breed. This girl is mixed breed about 3 years old. Poor thing has been naked for weeks
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    I think they would be hawk snacks too. But I have a Maremma that barks off a lot of predators including hawks.
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    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
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    Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

    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.
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    Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

    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!
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    Arizona Chickens

    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...
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    Arizona Chickens

    I would call your city and ask them. They are the ones that should know all the rules and regs.
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    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    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%
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    Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

    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...
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    Arizona Chickens

    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....
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