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I have good news and bad news. First the good news. It is really good news. The Blue cochin I culled and sent in for a necropsy was found to have a clear bill of health. The only signs of sickness were from the culling. There was no sign of infectious illnesses. The vet thinks it could have...

It depends on the season. If I buy straw in the winter or fall it is a Rice straw that construction sites use for erosion control and we don't like it. It is real course and not comfortable in the laying boxes. (The girls pull it out of the laying boxes and I find it scratches my arms because it...

My chicken coop has three sides. Two walls are fences and the third is open with chicken wire and doors. The area is 20x20x27 with a convex roof that is very high on the open wall and comes to a point at the corner where the two fences meet. I can close off one third of the coop for the young...

I have had this set up with this chicken coop and straw floor for 15 years. I think it is suspicious that all of a sudden I have 6 birds die a slow death from eating straw. The vet could not identify the fiber. He asked about the environment. I told him about the straw and it did not help him...

The doctor asked me about the fibrous material. I explained we have straw in the coop on a dirt floor. The coop has a solid roof so nothing can fall through. The run is dirt with some wood chips that have since been raked up. When young chicks they are in a cardboard box, but I have never seen...

All I had to pay for was the shipping. The State of CA offers this service free to protect our food sources. CA offered the use of their FedEx account so the shipper can benefit from their discounted contracted rate with the carrier. I will get billed for the shipping but it will be less than I...

I received a written preliminary report that went over the facts the doctor gave me on Friday. Something new, down in the Bacteriology Report it shows specimen 0006, a Liver Swab found no growth after 48 hours; specimen 0007 a Tracheal Swab found Mixed Flora Mod#. The Biotechnology section is...

When I search for information regarding Aspergillosis, I can't find symptoms that match all the symptoms that my flock has had. I am still looking. The Chicken Health Handbook states the bird will contact pneumonia. There are no signs of a respiratory illness in any of the living or passed...

This is what was puzzling. I saw the previous hens exhibit this same behavior. I thought they were eating, but it looks like it was not as much as the others. Then they started hanging out inside the coop behind the door and every so often they would shake their head like they were trying to get...

We spoke to the doctor at the lab late Friday afternoon. His first findings were positive for the remaining flock but bad news for the birds I culled. He said the hen was in good health, only flags were a slightly fatty liver and I think he said she had hyposaliva, which he thought was a vitamin...

Here in CA we can skip the vet appointment and the bill. If you have less than 1000 birds, you can ship directly to the state lab and they will perform necropsy free of charge. All we need to cover is shipping and they even offer to let us use the lab's FedEx account so we get the discounted...

One of the birds that I culled, with lesions inside the mouth, because of all the recent deaths with similar symptoms in the flock, and the large mass found in an ailing hen, was sent off to the CA Food Health & Safety Lab. I also noticed there are less doves and wild finches in my yard. I...

After all birds were on the bar to roost tonight; we pulled each one down, held open their mouths, shined a bright light into their mouth and throat looking for canker sores. We changed gloves after each bird so we would not infect the healthy birds. Of my remaining 10 hens, 5 has small lesions...

We just put her down. There was no reason to increase the risk of her infecting the other chickens. If it is canker..we wait 2 weeks to see if another one becomes symptomatic. We pray this is the end. If it is old age, I save on feed and the girls have more room on the top bar when they roost...

I had to find out what was blocking her throat. Some of the growth would break off (it smells) and I could retrieve it. It looks like the matter I found once in the laying box. It is firm and spongy and has some air pockets in it. I hope removing some of this growth will help her feel more...

The Ivermax paste I administered or the DE I added to the feed has begun to work. I read on a post to use the size of a BB if you use the paste and I calculated that to be correct. The entire tube doses a 1250lb horse. Each increment on the dosing syringe covers 25lbs. One quarter of that...

I sent my son down to the feed store. We bought a tube of Ivermax Equine Paste Dewormer for $5.95. I dosed off a lump of paste the size of a BB, put it on a Qtip and wiped it on the inside of the chicken's throat. Got that in and she did not shake it out. I chose this option because I have used...

The coop has a roof and keeps the area dry. There is one area that has some discoloration that might be mold but the area is very open and they have plenty of fresh air. The two black always roosted together in the center. The red stayed on the left side or the center and the lacy also roost on...

The autopsy was not helpful. She was the younger RIR. We did not go into the intestines or ceca. We were looking to see if there were any tumors or enlarged organs. We saw no worms or anything out of the ordinary.

Answers to the questions to help diagnosis my flock's problem. Feed: Nutrena Nature Wise Lay Crumbles and supplement with Premium Bird Seed "No Waste" (the seeds will not sprout if left on ground or fall out of bird feeder). The feed has been our feed for 20 years and this is the second year for...