Do you think this would be coccidiosis??

[CrabbeCottage]

She was a beautiful girl, I'm sorry for your loss

She was indeed, bless her xx

 

[CrabbeCottage]

I dont actually think doing one yourself would be very useful. I suspect the labs ability to run tests on samples is way more useful than just eyeballing the contents.

Yes you’re right.... I’m sure there’s probably a YouTube video for it, as there is for everything! but without the knowledge to understand what you’re looking at or the ability to test any findings then it’s not something I would attempt.

 

[Isaac 0]

I dont actually think doing one yourself would be very useful. I suspect the labs ability to run tests on samples is way more useful than just eyeballing the contents.

A lab is a much-preferred route than doing it at home, but a lot of times one is still able to do one at home, and get a good idea of what happened.

 

[BDutch]

Sorry for you’re loss. But I wouldn’t be too sure about this:

LaFleche, although there is rat poison in the sheds I’m pretty sure it hasn’t made it’s way out into the garden, thankfully the dishes haven’t been disturbed in quite some time

Rats do eat from poison and go outside again if you don’t administer it in a cage trap. A chicken can eat very sick or dead rats and eat the poison. It cumulates. Research established that owls, weasels and other predators do die from rat poison around where I live. Because of that and because there is a problem with mutated rats that got immune for the rat poison, it’s not available anymore for consumers and can only be bought / used by trained people.