Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

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I've stared at this egg for 5 minutes this morning and I'm just not seeing the bullseye that indicates fertility.

 

[Shadrach]

She seemed off, but it’s hard to tell, since she’s molting. I noted one evening on the roost it was firm and thought that odd, since she’s molting and not eating so much. I checked in the morning and it was the same. But I think Shad is right and it’s just slow. It was just so large and firm at first! This morning it was still quite full, but less firm.

@Shadrach I did not tube fluid this morning, but encouraged her to drink, massaged, and this happened after I tried to hand feed frozen bits of coconut oil only to learn she LIKED it! Hand feeding wasn’t necessary.

The cocconut oil is to help with lubricating the proventriculus. It doesn't do a lot for the crop. Need to bear in mind what I wrote earlier about the position of the crop and what the crops function is. Essentially the crop is a storage place. But, healthy chickens have food moving from the crop, down the proventriculus and into the gizzard constantly. Often what are percieved as crop problems are problems with the provetriculus. A blockage here slows the whole system up and the crop while functioning, cant empty do to the blockage in the proventriculus.
According to Gloria my vet in Catalonia the majority of the slow crop and sour crop problems she has dealt with are due to blockages in the proventriculus. The oil helps stuff move through the proventriculus,much like oiling the vent of an egg bound hen. Lots of water is to help wash up the bits in the crop so they float to a hieght that allows themto enter the proventriculus and flush down to the gizzard.
Most cases of fully impacted crop need operating on to remove the blockage. In some cases some concoction may help to dissolve the mass that causes the impaction but obviously this depends on what the mass comprises.

 

[Shadrach]

Yep, it’s my own call, but they know what it means.

Can someone record a real rooster alarm call?

The thing is, each rooster has a slightly different warning call and alarm call just as each roosters crow is different from the next.
Hens giving the warning call to their chicks is even more difficult to record and make identifiable to others.

 

[RoyalChick]

The cocconut oil is to help with lubricating the proventriculus. It doesn't do a lot for the crop. Need to bear in mind what I wrote earlier about the position of the crop and what the crops function is. Essentially the crop is a storage place. But, healthy chickens have food moving from the crop, down the proventriculus and into the gizzard constantly. Often what are percieved as crop problems are problems with the provetriculus. A blockage here slows the whole system up and the crop while functioning, cant empty do to the blockage in the proventriculus.
According to Gloria my vet in Catalonia the majority of the slow crop and sour crop problems she has dealt with are due to blockages in the proventriculus. The oil helps stuff move through the proventriculus,much like oiling the vent of an egg bound hen. Lots of water is to help wash up the bits in the crop so they float to a hieght that allows themto enter the proventriculus and flush down to the gizzard.
Most cases of fully impacted crop need operating on to remove the blockage. In some cases some concoction may help to dissolve the mass that causes the impaction but obviously this depends on what the mass comprises.

What causes the impaction in the first place?

 

[Shadrach]

I might be wrong...but I think @Shadrach meant to for the hawk?

I'm getting a bit confuzzled here but just in case, no, you need to be awfully good at throwing to use a hammer to deter a hawk. Door handles on the other hand don't tend to jump around as much or fly off, at least not the ones I've dealt with.
But maybe door handles have flown at some point and the phrase, don't fly off the handle, may be based on flying door handles.
Would it be alright if we talked about chickens. I make a lot more sense with that subject.

 

[AfiafiAfi]

I've stared at this egg for 5 minutes this morning and I'm just not seeing the bullseye that indicates fertility.

There’s actually two um red things on it like a bullseye and I still have it.I’m storing it in the cupboard to take it with me I at my home in the incubator Rebecca look here,I’ve seen fertile eggs have this dark circle when candled.There’s a dark red dot

 

[AfiafiAfi]

There’s actually two um red things on it like a bullseye and I still have it.I’m storing it in the cupboard to take it with me I at my home in the incubator Rebecca look here,I’ve seen fertile eggs have this dark circle when candled.There’s a dark red dotView attachment 2862173

I mean ur the expert,but are u sure?I want my eggs to hatch real bad

 

[Shadrach]

What causes the impaction in the first place?

The last fully impacted crop I know about was one of my sisters Silkies. Apparently this Silkie had never been out of a run before. My sister let themout into the garden and this hen set about tryingto eat a bay leaf plant. It seems she didn't have the sense to peck bits off the leaves but instead cramed whole leaves down her throat. She ate so many and so fast that according to my sister when the vet looked down her throat the leaves had built up so far that they were visible by looking down the hens throat.
Mind you, we are talking Silkies here and they're not all that bright at the best of times.
The leaves dried in thhe crop basically and formed into a hard ball.

 

[AfiafiAfi]

Tiny visitor in the house!well look here.Lyle learned 12 words already!
red,pine,baby,disco,disco,disco,disco….

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I mean ur the expert,but are u sure?I want my eggs to hatch real bad

I'm definitely not a expert, but that particular egg I don't think was fertile. But, you have a rooster so it's safe to assume he is doing his job. And here is the thing, not every egg she lays is going to be fertile. My boys do their job quite well, Basil is very busy with the girls that are currently laying. I'm not saving any eggs for incubation right now but I still look every time I crack a egg, about 80% have been fertile. I'm happy with that number as Basil is new to this and a young cockerel, and there are only 5 hens laying. I pulled this image off the web for you, it shows you the bullseye I'm talking about when I look at the yolks. I just did not see that on the egg yolk you pictured.