Recent content by Naz223

Normally I would just toss them, but with this pandemic, you can’t buy eggs right now. They’re precious.

Will it be obvious when I crack them?

After hunting through the forest all day, I finally found my escapee hen’s ninja nest. But how do I tell if the eggs are still good? There were three, I know they can’t be more than 2 or 3 weeks old. Unless they’re months old, but a wild animal or bird would have found them by now. Does the...

I’m fairly certain the pale color chick is a White Plymouth Rock. She’s really sweet, but I’m kinda bummed. I never wanted a white chicken. But she’ll be a good egg layer!

Pictures?

I’m using a heat plate, but it seems liked it’s too hot. So I went back to a lamp (from the pet store) until the manufacturer gets back to me.

Which one is better? Safer?

I was suppose to get a Dominique and a Black Australorp. Because of covid19, I wasn’t able to go pick them out. These are what I got. The other 2 breeds they had are white Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds. The lady said all the Plymouth’s were bright white and the Rhodies were brown and very...

Histopathology results came back, Adenocarcinoma. Cancer. Most likely metastatic from the the reproductive tract, but could be only related to the liver. Either way, I feel validated in my decision to euthanize. She was incurable.

This was my first poultry necropsy, I've done several with dogs and cats. I did learn quite a bit more about chicken anatomy, which is great. We emptied approximately 1/2 liter of fluid from her abdomen. The "chunks" I show are both gelatinous and some bits that looked the old cooked egg. The...

With my limited knowledge of poultry anatomy, it was a good learning experience. She had a large amount of free fluid in her abdomen. Her liver was in bad shape, she had a large cyst near her vent. I’m going to send part of her liver to our lab for biopsy. Her gizzard was full of material, grass...

Yes, I will take some pics and post them here.

I am most likely going to euthanize her tonight. She is weak and not eating enough. Although still alert, she's just starving herself and it's not fair to keep her alive. I will perform a necropsy. But for what it's worth, here are the rads, like I said they aren't very good, (particularly the...

It started slowly with one, then over the course of a few months all but one of my hens are roosting on top of the coup and run. It’s messy, dangerous and hard on their joints when they get down. It got so annoying I gave up for now on pulling them down every night. I just want to prevent it...

I will try to get a pic of the X-rays today, they aren’t the best X-rays since I don’t work with birds at the clinic and our machine doesn’t have a poultry setting, so I used macaw. Is it possible to have egg yolk peritonitis and not pass bits of yolk in the stool? Her poops contain very little...