Araucana thread anyone?

[Frazzemrat1]

shipped eggs should stay 24 hours. when I get eggs 30 minutes drive away I wait 4-5 hours.

Thank you! I'm glad I did good then, cause I ended up putting them in the bater last night. So far, so good. Only problem was, she gave me 18 eggs, 7 of which are barnevelder eggs... 11 araucana eggs!! My bater only fits 9 chicken eggs! There's room for more, but they'd have to be hand turned. So... I have 9 araucana eggs in the turning portion and 4 barnie eggs on the sides. LOL I'm gonna make this work!!

@Brahma Chicken5000 here's one of her hens from last summer... I don't have a pic of her rooster, but he's gorgeous!

 

[Trish1974]

Ugly Betty died shortly after I got home from work yesterday. Seems it was fatty liver disease according to a few members. I emailed the necropsy pic to the breeder I bought her from, and while he is not experienced in necropsies he did agree that was an extreme amount of fat on a bird. Kind of odd it took down such a young bird. The thread is here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ions-graphic-pic.1298851/page-3#post-21144694
Luckily I have the rest of week off work. I did find mites on Betty as I was cutting her open so I need to do a deep clean of that coop today and dust her flockmate Blue Bell. Then I need to come up with a way to start slowly introducing her to Buck. Poor girl is all by herself now. I'm bummed and Blue Bell will probably be bummed, too.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Ugly Betty died shortly after I got home from work yesterday. Seems it was fatty liver disease according to a few members. I emailed the necropsy pic to the breeder I bought her from, and while he is not experienced in necropsies he did agree that was an extreme amount of fat on a bird. Kind of odd it took down such a young bird. The thread is here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ions-graphic-pic.1298851/page-3#post-21144694
Luckily I have the rest of week off work. I did find mites on Betty as I was cutting her open so I need to do a deep clean of that coop today and dust her flockmate Blue Bell. Then I need to come up with a way to start slowly introducing her to Buck. Poor girl is all by herself now. I'm bummed and Blue Bell will probably be bummed, too.

I'm so sorry!! HUGS!!!!!

 

[ronott1]

Ugly Betty died shortly after I got home from work yesterday. Seems it was fatty liver disease according to a few members. I emailed the necropsy pic to the breeder I bought her from, and while he is not experienced in necropsies he did agree that was an extreme amount of fat on a bird. Kind of odd it took down such a young bird. The thread is here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ions-graphic-pic.1298851/page-3#post-21144694
Luckily I have the rest of week off work. I did find mites on Betty as I was cutting her open so I need to do a deep clean of that coop today and dust her flockmate Blue Bell. Then I need to come up with a way to start slowly introducing her to Buck. Poor girl is all by herself now. I'm bummed and Blue Bell will probably be bummed, too.

I had a 10 month old Black Australorp die of fatty liver disease. I do not give scratch or other high carb treats to the flock any more. Their treat is a bit of kale each day now

 

[chickengr]

Ugly Betty died shortly after I got home from work yesterday. Seems it was fatty liver disease according to a few members. I emailed the necropsy pic to the breeder I bought her from, and while he is not experienced in necropsies he did agree that was an extreme amount of fat on a bird. Kind of odd it took down such a young bird. The thread is here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ions-graphic-pic.1298851/page-3#post-21144694
Luckily I have the rest of week off work. I did find mites on Betty as I was cutting her open so I need to do a deep clean of that coop today and dust her flockmate Blue Bell. Then I need to come up with a way to start slowly introducing her to Buck. Poor girl is all by herself now. I'm bummed and Blue Bell will probably be bummed, too.

sorry for your loss.

 

[chickengr]

I had a 10 month old Black Australorp die of fatty liver disease. I do not give scratch or other high carb treats to the flock any more. Their treat is a bit of kale each day now

I feed my chickens whole grains (corn, wheat, barley, oats + lentils). they don't die from fat.

 

[Ms Clucky]

I had some, but a lot of mine were mean when they were small and still in the brooder. Here are two that wasn't mean. The blue one is Twitchy

and the other one I didn't name cause we didn't keep her long.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I had some, but a lot of mine were mean when they were small and still in the brooder. Here are two that wasn't mean. The blue one is Twitchy View attachment 1717029 and the other one I didn't name cause we didn't keep her long.View attachment 1717030

I've found araucana to be quite calm and docile. Unfortunetly, it looks like your birds aren't/weren't araucana. American SOP is rumpless and tufted. Don't get me wrong, I have a clean faced araucana, but she's rumpless.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

They’re Easter Eggers.

 

[Trish1974]

I feed my chickens whole grains (corn, wheat, barley, oats + lentils). they don't die from fat.

I know so many members on here are "anti-treat". They consider everything that is not a true chicken feed a "treat". My flocks get a handful of scratch/mealworms/sunflower seeds in both the morning and evening. To me that is nothing different then they would get if they free ranged naturally. They would be scratching up worms, they would be eating seeds from various weeds and flowers, and if there was a cornfield near by you know they would be in that. I think there is more to the disease then just being diet based. Regardless, Betty's disease must have been hereditary because she wasn't even a year old yet. I know her breeder did not give "treats" and I never did because her and her flockmate would turn their nose up at the offer.