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  1. U_Stormcrow

    My chickens do not eat much

    and not to stir the pot, but "Organic Dewormer"? Save your money. I have yet to see an anthelmintic made from natural sources with any reasonable degree of control and guarantee of concentration of the actual bioactive compounds. Pumpkin seeds and wormwood are fine in theory, but in practice...
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    My chickens do not eat much

    Sadly, can confirm the styrofoam. Grape leaves are VERY high in tannins - one of the reasons they were traditionally included in the jar when pickling, helps to maintain a crisp pickle. Anyhow, high tannin content tends to suppress appetite, it is not "good eats". OTOH, grape leaves tend to...
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    Chicken necropsy (graphic images) - liver failure / internal bleeding - what is the cause?

    I have no Marans experience, and am unaware of any relationship between Marans and FLHS. Nor could I find any in a quick keyword search. As commented above, its usually (largely) a feed thing - at least as possible that your breeder kept his marans caged and overfed. But it is possible...
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    Chicken necropsy (graphic images) - liver failure / internal bleeding - what is the cause?

    OK, slightly longer post. At various times, I've done commercial drafting, dug footers, wired rebar, performed wind load and rain run off calculations, done basic carpentry and framing, run household electrical (110, 220) from the service drop to the outlets, plumbing and waste water (complete...
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    Chicken necropsy (graphic images) - liver failure / internal bleeding - what is the cause?

    I'm going to try and remember to come back to this and provide some depth to my answers, but woke up late, and am about an hour behind where I should be at this moment. The (very) short answer is the FLHS is a syndrome, a collection of symptoms, with a complicated (and somewhat disputed) set of...
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    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.
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    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)...
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    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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