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  1. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Sounds like your experience reinforces my theory, and that I'm walking the right path at least. I'd hate to be $10, $20k down this road and find out its not going to work in this situation. Thank you for that.
  2. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Yes, I have a 4x6 drag harrow I run behind the box blade. We have sandy clay soils, or clay-y sands, and a 1/4 mile of steady slope for the driveway, being fed by water from acres of higher elevation. Rain water tends to find its way in to where the roots of 40 and 50 year oaks, pines, hickory...
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    Chicken necropsy (graphic images) - liver failure / internal bleeding - what is the cause?

    10sqm is 103sqft, give or take. That's 10 birds, max, using the 10sq ft/bird rule. I think that's not enough sq ft/bd personally - but 10sq ft / bd is the thumb rule minimum. I'm getting ready to set up a new 30 x 40 (foot) fenced area to offer some protection to 25 birds. That's almost 50sq...
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    Chicken necropsy (graphic images) - liver failure / internal bleeding - what is the cause?

    and your feed seems fine, from the numbers it discloses - if there are nutritional issues, it is from the other things being added to their diets (not the greens - not a significant fat/carb source unless you are feeding artichoke hearts and avocados? No? I thought not). and available...
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    Chicken necropsy (graphic images) - liver failure / internal bleeding - what is the cause?

    You can't visually score a bird's "fattyness" - or at least, after years, I can't do it, and I am regularly poking around inside my birds. Even "condition scoring" is still a struggle for me, with bird in hand. Yes, could be heart in that photo, its so heavily shadowed hard to be certain, or...
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    Chicken necropsy (graphic images) - liver failure / internal bleeding - what is the cause?

    and now that I read the full thread and see this wasn't a bird being butchered for freezer camp, but rather one that "volunteered" for internal photography, I'm going to revise my diagnosis to "YES, FLHS" as the best working theory here. Sorry, the @ comment caught me pre-coffee. Horrid state...
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    I had 18 ton of #47 limerock delivered. Spread it after work over the course of a couple days - say 2 1/2 hours? $2k. My driveway could use another 5 loads that size (that's the third I've had delivered - the first load was half that price, a few years ago).
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    Chicken necropsy (graphic images) - liver failure / internal bleeding - what is the cause?

    Look at picture three, right mid. Several other views, similar. Looks to me like evidence of past ruptures/bleeds. Should also find evidence of kidney damage once you get to the wall, and the heart, I would expect, will be almost completely enrobed in yellow, with perhaps the bottom 1/4...
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    Chicken necropsy (graphic images) - liver failure / internal bleeding - what is the cause?

    yes, yes, yes. i think so. [as I type while shoving toast (fat and flour), and sausage (pork, fat, spices) gravy (milk, fat, four) into my mouth] But it tastes so good. I'm sure that bird though the same of its feed.
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    Chicken necropsy (graphic images) - liver failure / internal bleeding - what is the cause?

    You can stop "guessing", your answer is YES. That is definitely soft and friable, with a very high fat content. I don't know how, exactly, FLHS is defined, but I'd say that bird is clearly on the spectrum. and would probably look healthy (except perhaps a bit of poor circulation at the comb)...
  11. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Started as I began my biscuits and gravy (ok, sausage gravy on sourdough toast from the old loaf). Less than 1/4" so far, expecting another 90 min of this +/-. DESPERATELY need the water. But if it comes down slow, it won't wash out the driveway (much). I mixed a half ton of concrete mix...
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    Meaty Birds grain/soy free diet, FINNISHING DIET!! last 5 weeks

    Color is often an indicator of tannins, and certain other antinutritional factors. Where you have the choice, but no time to research, favor the lighter option. I was served black-eyed peas when i was five or six and had a very vivid imagination (already a voracious reader at that point). I...
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    Meaty Birds grain/soy free diet, FINNISHING DIET!! last 5 weeks

    Its a 40 min drive for me to a grocery store w/ NO selection, so I understand where you are coming from. If you have a decent "Middle Eastern" (a term almost offensively broad) section in your grocery store, or better, a local grocery that specializes in ethnic ingredients from that broad...
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    Meaty Birds grain/soy free diet, FINNISHING DIET!! last 5 weeks

    I mean I'd have to rebuild my calculator and crunch the numbers, not just do mental math. My mental math is good - but imperfect. Do try and get wrinkled peas, preferably light in color (i.e. yellow, rather than green), and if you grow your own, from a white flowered variety. That will tend...
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    Meaty Birds grain/soy free diet, FINNISHING DIET!! last 5 weeks

    At first glance, it looks surprisingly good. I've not run the numbers myself, but my gut feeling is that its probably close to the numbers being suggested [data sources vary somewhat, of course]. Someone appears to have but real effort into crafting that. In terms of efficiency, I'm not sure...
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    Most kind, thank you for letting me know. I'm always curious why I might get a follow.

    Most kind, thank you for letting me know. I'm always curious why I might get a follow.
  17. U_Stormcrow

    Kalmbach Henhouse Reserve?

    The Kalmbach is good feed, and yes, serving it as a wet mash or a ferment helps avoid the usual problems w/ any whole grain feed, not just Kalmbach's examples. Your birds haven't stopped laying due to feed unless their existing feed is nutritionally deficient, and has been for some time. In...
  18. U_Stormcrow

    Best quality food for your buck

    That's about 2x the price point the original poster was seeking - but TY for the link. Not terrible Met levels, and they disclose their Niacin content (too low for Pekins). good to know.
  19. U_Stormcrow

    Feeding All My Birds

    ...and wasteful for chickens - they don't benefit from CPs that high. 20% CP might be sufficient for maintaining a breeding flock of game birds - *maybe* - but definitely not for raising Game Birds. Are Quail "game birds"??? I imagine them as prettier, somewhat leaner, pigeons. [I'm probably...
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    Feeding All My Birds

    Before someone tags me, I'm going to bow out. I have NOT researched the nutritional needs of coturnix or button quail, and lack sufficient expertise to feel qualified in opining. Chickens, ducks, yes. Even a bit about Turkeys. Quail? Nope. Someone thank me not not saying "Quailified". It...
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