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    How To Train Your Dog Not To Kill Chickens

    Quote: SRP Chickens. Thanks for the advice. My dogs are trained to 'wait' until given permission to eat. That is the daily ritual. I place the food on the floor and command them to wait until I release them. I can go about other business and even leave the room. One time I even forgot that...
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    How To Train Your Dog Not To Kill Chickens

    Ya. I don't doubt that boredom may be a factor, but there is plenty for them to do. They have about 100 acres of 'wild' to roam - I had to install a radio fence two years ago because my neighbor liked to invite them into his heated garage and feed them, and they were never home - and I mean...
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    How To Train Your Dog Not To Kill Chickens

    I've recently developed the same problem. I have 2 dogs - a female Lab/Shepherd that I adopted as a one-yr old and a male Pyrenees/Lab/Border Collie, that I adopted as a six week old pup. The 1-yr old was introduced into my existing flock, as my older dog had cancer. I used the older dog as a...
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    Hi Comickook. Sorry I haven't been here for a while - work has been getting in the way of my computer time. How did your girls do? Did you try the draining procedure?
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    Hi - I don't think that's quite what she looked like, but that could be due to the density of the remaining feathers on your girl's rear. lol. My girl seemed also seemed to be pinker at that stage of feather loss. Having said that, I've noticed a couple more of my hens are developing bare butts...
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    @Country4ever: Awesome info. Thank you. (Ummm... do you make house calls?)
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    Quote: Thanks for posting. Can you describe how you drained your hen? Did you use a syringe or a catheter and where did you insert it? I'm sure there's a lot of us who would like to know how to tell the difference between the two conditions and what to do about each one.
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    Quote: I first noticed her condition maybe a couple of months ago. The first signs were feather loss and pinkness. From this start, her abdomen became obviously swollen, and squishy (soft) and the skin became very inflamed (bright red and kind of leathery), but I did not notice any change in...
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    Quote: Boy, do I feel kinda dumb... I just looked up ad libitum. It is not a chemical or ingredient. It is Latin for "at one's pleasure," or "ad lib" for short. Why can't science journal-type people just write in plain English? I guess this means that allowing free access to the feeder...
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    Quote: Fascinating. I think I missed my calling. Oh well, jack of all trades, master of none... lol. I did google Parthenogenesis. What I find most interesting is that the sex chromosome is the only one that does not replicate itself during doubling. I wonder why?
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    All this talk about ovaries- I thought chickens only had one, left ovary? Is this not true? Apparently, yes and no. They have both left and right. Normally the right ovary atrophies during development of the chick, and only the left ovary produces eggs. Although the right ovary doesn't...
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    Well, I did some more research and have determined that my girl definitely had what is called a "cystic oviduct." What's more, I found out that this is a common result of a breakout of Infectious Bronchitis. This concerns me. Although I haven't noticed any real signs of infection - the...
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    Someone pointed out to me that the caption on the news paper reads, "Something to SCREAM About." Macabre, yes, but purely unintentional.
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    Thank you all for your kind words and your input. She was one of my first hens and although she was a skittish little 'B' (not friendly at all and impossible to catch), she would still allow me to stroke her every night when I tucked her in. Definitely full of character. I will miss her. I am...
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    EXTREMELY GRAPHIC! I have attached autopsy pictures at the end of this post to illustrate her condition. Look or don't look, but I felt, for the sake of informative discussion, it had to be done. One of my girls developed a hugely swollen and squishy abdomen and lost all the feathers in that...
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