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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    And thank you for the input. I'm actually not too emotional once the deed is done. That's always the hardest and have found myself putting that off way past the point of being kind. I'm a science and education nerd at heart, and once they are no longer alive, everything changes. I'm not...
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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    *** Note to sensitive folks, necropsy photos below *** I'm not expert enough to say where things were, nor did I spread everything out to take better notes. It was so obvious that the large masses were her problem I didn't bother with details (and don't know enough to know what details to look...
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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    Thank you @Bawkbok.
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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    Further reading on this forum suggests it was Salpingitus / lash eggs, and all the photos look just like mine. She never laid a lash egg that I ever saw, but definitely what was inside of her.
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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    Today we put Dixie down and I did a necropsy of sorts (I'm not any kind of expert). She had two shell-less "eggs" that were not anywhere near down the pike to lay. I cut them both open and they presented much like a boiled egg. One was about normal egg size, the other was huge, maybe goose egg...
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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    She's still hanging with us, but the same. Normal for a while, then back to the yellow runs. She eats and drinks but not much. I got a new bunch of chicks and she has been staying close to them in this stall set up in the barn. It's been 2 months since I started this thread. This past week she...
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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    Thanks for the details, I'll pick some of that up.
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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    So far, she's the same. Normal poop for a few days, now back to the yellow soup. She stays on the roost in the morning way late, but eats a little and drinks water, her comb is a normal color, and she lays down frequently. I feel like she is in an aging decline. The most interesting thing...
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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    I'd like suggestions to ease or cure the illness, but more than anything, if she's on her way out suggestions from people who've had a beloved freeloader for this long... Not a lap pet, just a special chicken.
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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    Wyandotte, almost 9 years old, hasn't laid in well over a year, comb is normal (pale red) for non-layer, is not bloated or swollen anywhere, nor is she overly thin. Just basically an old hen.
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    Yellow watery diarrhea (picture included)

    A couple of weeks ago my oldest hen was a bit lethargic and having watery poop with a yellow tint. Lasted about a week and she got better with no treatment. This morning it's back again, she didn't get off the roost until I went and picked her up. I gave her some bread soaked in raw egg which...
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    Egyptian Fayoumis Thread!

    I was sent a EF cockerel as the "free chick" in my first order of baby chicks almost 10 years ago. We free ranged and he was a complete natural at it. A few years later I added some more chicks to the flock (a variety pack) and got one female EF. She was feral as could be. She roosted in trees...
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    New Mexico

    Thanks for the reply. I should have specified no bantams. Sorry, my bad. Yeah, TSC here gets them but say they never know what day or what they're getting and sells out same day so they don't want to take numbers for calling. So kinda frustrating. I'm 30 minutes from town so can't go in every...
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    New Mexico

    Curious if anyone has available chicks in southern New Mexico? I see the major hatcheries are basically out through June or longer. Not too picky about breed, just decent layers, prefer a variety or EE's so I can tell them apart. I have 3 hens, one will be 9 in June, the other two will be 7, so...
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    What predator poops after a kill? (graphic photos)

    I'm no expert, I searched around and did find this article comparing the coati with the raccoon. I personally thought the narrow toes of the raccoon didn't look as close to my photo as the coati. I'm so curious now, hope to get it on the critter cam, if not in the trap...
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    What predator poops after a kill? (graphic photos)

    I read that they are intelligent like raccoons and are sometimes kept as pets. Which suggests to me that they are smart and adaptable to change - few wild critters do well in captivity. There is only one tree with skinny limbs that overhangs the fence - a squirrel could jump from limbs to...
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    What predator poops after a kill? (graphic photos)

    No, not really. There are 5 strands of electric on the outside of the 2 x 4 inch field fencing, bottom one is about 4" from the ground and then the others above are about 8" apart and all are about 3" out from the field wire. Tried to take care of a critter going under the bottom one or climbing...
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    What predator poops after a kill? (graphic photos)

    The Coati is the same family. This is a high elevation, arid forest, trees mixed with cactus, very little water. Our creek use to run 6 months out of the year, but this year it only ran 3 times, only for 2 or 3 days due to no rain and so far no snow. Close to creeks I've seen the Coaties but...
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    What predator poops after a kill? (graphic photos)

    Just found a news article from 2018 and it states that coati's do kill chickens and also they are a protected species in this state. From the tracks I found I'm pretty sure that's what it is. Hmph. "The coatimundi was captured by Tyler Sladen in Corrales over the weekend. Sladen, who works...
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    What predator poops after a kill? (graphic photos)

    Thank you for your input! I saw that track when I looked at the photos on the computer. I went down to the pen & found more and used a measuring device rather than a golf ball. :) Ground is frozen hard but sand around the wall held good ones! The back foot is looking like raccoon but we don't...
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