Constipation + Possible No Shell Egg

[rebrascora]

Well I'd rather have a rabbit kick me in the face than a horse! Rascal is very good about "intimate" washes but one of my partner's horses is less amenable! Never been kicked in the face so far though thankfully but been caught on the leg a couple of times.
Her back end looks a little plumper than I would like and the white deposits stuck to her feathers looks like urates rather than egg white. I'm very concerned about the orange gunk material. It sounds like a lash egg and is usually very bad news. Do you have a photo of it? It is caused by infection of the oviduct and antibiotic treatment at the earliest opportunity may be vital to preventing her becoming fatally impacted with similar material. Salpingitis is the medical term if you want to do some research and look up images of lash egg to compare with what you found. I'm very much against the use of antibiotics at the first sign of any illness but in the case of this one, early treatment with them is key, so if veterinary treatment is an option, now would be the time to play that card.

 

[rebrascora]

Kale was listed as one of the greens high in oxalates by Kathy (casportpony) in this post
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/worms.1247959/page-2#post-20023037

 

[Aerliss]

Sorry, didn't get a pic. Just collected it up with a bunch of poop and threw it under the bushes. It was like a piece of thick acetate rolled up, maybe an inch square.

 

[Aerliss]

Kale was listed as one of the greens high in oxalates by Kathy (casportpony) in this post
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/worms.1247959/page-2#post-20023037

The internet seems to be conflicted. Alternating between "kale is the smoothie demon" and "eh, it's pretty good". Found several listing kale as high and then;

This one lists them as low to medium; http://lowoxalateinfo.com/guide-to-low-oxalate-greens/

This one explains that different types are low, medium, or high; http://www.fibrofreefoodie.com/2016/08/09/kale-high-or-low-oxalate/

And this one says raw curly kale is medium; http://lowoxalateinfo.com/is-kale-low-oxalate/

I am too tired to sift through this nonsense. Guess I'm eating a lot of kale this season XD

Thanks for the additional info, and g'night. Go to bed!

 

[rebrascora]

I wonder if it may be a bit like cholesterol, in that there are good oxalates and less good ones. Personally, I try not to worry about the hype or spin put on foods and just try to eat wholesome. 30 years ago eggs were public enemy no.1. Butter was bad and margarine was good. Now eggs are back to being good for you and margarine may not be all it was cracked up to be and butter might be lesser evil option. Avocados were bad because they contained cholesterol but now supposedly good because the cholesterol they contain turns out to be beneficial! I'm still waiting for them to reverse the bad press on fatty meat and hopefully we can get back to being able to buy meat that actually has some flavour like it did when I was a child!

Hope I am wrong about your girl having salpingitis. Typical that her food dye came off on all the other eggs. She does seem to be lacking feathers below her vent which might otherwise have prevented cross contamination of the other eggs with the food dye. I've read of other people trying that trick and even the egg from the hen in question wasn't dyed with it, so not a perfect method.
Hope you sleep well and she lays a normal egg tomorrow and I am just being a worry wort.

Regards

Barbara

 

[Aerliss]

I am so tired of the avacado craze. Customers feeding their kids who aren't even walking yet half an avacado for lunch. Eugh. And asking for avacado on everything. They're not even that nice! And then telling their older kids "no, you can't have a juice, have water. There's too much sugar in fruit juice." Agh!

Lots of nice healthy poops overnight, from everyone. Michonne still has a messy bottom, but it's not distended anymore. Her crop was emptier than it had been, and was nice and firm. Not much I could do this morning but she's in fine spirits. Was first out of the run for range time. So we'll see. Was hoping to get them all registered with the vet yesterday and get an appointment for Saturday, but forgot to call them. I think I might just take Daryl and Michonne though. Maggie and Carol are on fine form.

Daryl is still very quiet and disinterested in food. Bottom looks fine and she had pooped overnight. Fairly empty crop this morning but it wasn't very full when she went to bed. She went into the nest box just before I left for work. Hopefully she lays. I think she's just a sensitive soul. She goes to bed before everyone else, and sleeps in a box. She spent the entire first day in there. She gets pushed around a lot so I've set up FOUR feeders. Two FF and two dry. One dry in the coop with a waterer. That way she can get to at least one of them. She's really mad for bugs so I gave them a double dose of compost today. Hope the other three don't clean it out before she comes out the box.

 

[Aerliss]

Blue butt laid an egg! A lovely, perfectly formed egg. Pretty confident it's hers, anyway. Lots of poop again this morning.

Im obsessed with poop checks...

Off to the vet on Saturday, but I've got a feeling it's vent gleet so started treatment for that last night with what I had to hand; neem, garlic, coconut oil mix I use on cuts, rashes, eczema... Neem is used around the world to treat thrush, and garlic is used by some women. Both are proven effective.