Arizona Chickens

[AZChiknGoddess]

You should check out posts by Phottoman, he's from the AZ and does fodder.   His system looks very interesting.

I looked into fodder for my horses. The downside to fodder in our area is you have to keep it in a cool environment so an air conditioned area or at minimum a cooler. We can grow here in the winter though.

 

[ChuskaMtns]

How many of you dip shipped eggs you get into Tylan or Denegard? I'm wondering because I'm reading a thread on the FB Orpington group regarding birds contracting Mg/Ms or being carriers and some breeders having to cull their entire flock (sometimes 200 or so birds) at a time. They are saying any shipped eggs should be dipped in Tylan or Denegard because we don't know if these chicks would be carriers and the dipping would kill the Mg/Ms organisms. Thoughts?

 

[ChuskaMtns]

Cruella deVille, Romeo's significant other

Orps

My NN roo, Romeo my favorite, he's very curious and sweet

This is the little leghorn cockerel in need of a good home

Hugo my Golden Marans roo with 3 of his girls

 

[City farm]

 
I found one of my chickens very listless this morning, not able to hold up her head or sit straight, curled up in a corner of the coop.  Her breathing seemed normal, clear nose and mouth, not egg bound.  Her normally bright red comb was pale.  I did not feed yesterday my DH did, so I did not get to observe anything unusual until I found her like that this morning. She did roost in her normal place last night.

I called @CityFarm
and she came over, we both decided to end her suffering. Thank you @CityFarm
for helping me humanely dispatch my chicken!  We did a necropsy, found normal looking digestive system, liver, heart, ovary and duct. No tumors. No visible pox. She had yesterday's veggies in her crop not today's and there wasn't much. The only thing we did find was black stuff in her lungs even though she was not gasping and was breathing normally. It was worse in the left lung.

If anyone can give any feedback on this I would greatly appreciate it!  It almost looks like smoker's lung, but I'm not sure what caused it and if that was what really caused her to go downhill so fast.

Dang, I'm sorry that happened.

When I woke up this morning I thought about her kidney. Remember when we found it we did not think it was one? Not till you opened it, it was smaller than a Banty hen kidney.. Do you remember finding the 2nd one??

 

[City farm]

neocropsy found these and more on chicken diseases The first two may be the most helpful. Post mortum for Mareks is fasenating. All I can figure out is the chicken had a fungus in the lungs. I hope you use maskes.

1}
http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0756e/t0756e08.htm
2} http://www.vdl.umn.edu/prod/groups/cvm/@pub/@cvm/@vdl/documents/asset/cvm_asset_350829.pdf
3}
http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/72/Syllabus
4}
http://www.canadianpoultry.ca/cms_pdfs/Important Poultry Diseases 060058 - CPC website.pdf

Thank you girl..

 

[City farm]

Thank you to person that called I'm on my way to Higley feed now

Keep us posted.. Glad someone called you..

 

[City farm]

How many of you dip shipped eggs you get into Tylan or Denegard? I'm wondering because I'm reading a thread on the FB Orpington group regarding birds contracting Mg/Ms or being carriers and some breeders having to cull their entire flock (sometimes 200 or so birds) at a time. They are saying any shipped eggs should be dipped in Tylan or Denegard because we don't know if these chicks would be carriers and the dipping would kill the Mg/Ms organisms. Thoughts?

Huh, what age do they see symptoms.. I guess it would not hurt if is transmitted threw the egg..
What do you think @desertmarcy can a egg be that porous that would happen.. That is really sad to hear.. Just a newbie

 

[City farm]

Cruella deVille, Romeo's significant other Orps My NN roo, Romeo my favorite, he's very curious and sweet This is the little leghorn cockerel in need of a good home Hugo my Golden Marans roo with 3 of his girls

Your flock is beautiful.. I do hope our 3 Golden Marans hatch..

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

What is mg/MS ?

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

Cruella deVille, Romeo's significant other Orps My NN roo, Romeo my favorite, he's very curious and sweet This is the little leghorn cockerel in need of a good home Hugo my Golden Marans roo with 3 of his girls

Pretty birds!