Yep they had the excess fluid. Butchered 20 tonight, will do 40 tomorrow and the last 40 on Saturday. Their lungs and all other organs looked extremely healthy.
If I butcher them tonight while they are still doing okay, can I still eat them and not worry? If it is heart failure, I don't see why the meat would be bad.
I have a group of CX meat birds that are supposed to be butchered on Saturday. Tuesday they started making weird sounds but I didn't think anything of it. I thought they were just getting their "big chicken clucks" and growing out of their cheeps. Now they are coughing and I lost two that...