"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Ron Skekel]

Primrose that yellow puss looking stuff on your hens vent concerns me. I don't know enough to say what it might be or normal. To me as a lay person that doesn't know about chicken problems I think it looks infected. If I see Jeff on later or kuntrygirl I will ask them to come look. In the mean time google yellow discharge on chicken vent. Hope this helps. Pam

 

[Ron Skekel]

Maybe?  Tastes like chicken?

No not chicken I like it some don't. Ron likes certain cuts like leg deboned stuffed with feta roasted red pepper etc slow cooked on the egg. If your family hasn't tried it I would start there before I got a herd. Ron only likes the ground lamb as feta burgers . If I substitute for ground meat he doesn't like it. Pam

 

[foreverlearning]

Ok. Here is Lizzie's vent and her head. Actually her head is brighter red than the foto shows. So, laying or not? And what's the yellow? The marble eggs are now in their nest box in their coop. After 2 days in the coop they seem calmer and more cooperative. They have settled down.

I haven't seen that before. I'll look it up and see if I can find anything that it might be. Hopefully someone more qualified can chime in.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

I haven't seen that before. I'll look it up and see if I can find anything that it might be. Hopefully someone more qualified can chime in.

I did find someone on BYC diseases that posted a foto and description almost identical. I PMed her to see her outcome. Hers was a couple of months ago. It doesn't look red or sore. It's definately not pustules. Just looks like cheesy yellow gunk stuck on her. I PMed two from this thread that know lots more than I do that haven't been on much the last few days. Thanks so much for your input.

 

[foreverlearning]

I did find someone on BYC diseases that posted a foto and description almost identical. I PMed her to see her outcome. Hers was a couple of months ago. It doesn't look red or sore. It's definately not pustules. Just looks like cheesy yellow gunk stuck on her. I PMed two from this thread that know lots more than I do that haven't been on much the last few days. Thanks so much for your input.

From what I can find so far there are a few things that can cause this. The most common question asked to tell what one it is is "Does she smell like a regular chicken or is there a bad smell coming off of her like yeast infection or roadkill?".

 

[kuntrygirl]

If I was to get a lamb to raise for meat, what do I need to know?  Is there a particular breed that would work better?  Are there any special housing issues or conerns I need to be aware of?  At what age would I process?  Yes, I know I can do my "homework", but trying to decide if it's an avenue I can even go down right now.
Thanks,
Laurie

Have you tried lamb? I like it Ron doesn't unless it's mixed with other meat for meatloaf or made into sausage . Pam

I know that question is for CackedNut but I wanted to chime in. I once had my lamb meat ground up and mixed with pork ( I think) and it was not good. The butcher explained something about the ground lamb having to be mixed with something else (another meat) and I told him ok. I will never do that again. I"m not sure why he couldn't make straight 100% lamb sausage. I may have to revisit the idea with another butcher and see if he can make 100% lamb sausage. I also think I"ll try ground lamb next time.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

No

From what I can find so far there are a few things that can cause this. The most common question asked to tell what one it is is "Does she smell like a regular chicken or is there a bad smell coming off of her like yeast infection or roadkill?".

No bad smell. Matter of fact trying a lot to get fotos and exposing her vent for fotos, I was close to her vent a lot and there was no smell. It does look like dried yolk now that I have been talking about it. Not red or swollen. Not drippy. No other color. Just dirty with yellow kind of dried up stuff.

 

[Angelicisi]

Lol I bit my tongue. Don't I get a badge for that?

  You took a picture of your birds WHO HA!!!!  I feel violated for them.    OK, I'll be an adult now.  Maybe...

 

[foreverlearning]

I know that question is for CackedNut but I wanted to chime in. I once had my lamb meat ground up and mixed with pork ( I think) and it was not good. The butcher explained something about the ground lamb having to be mixed with something else (another meat) and I told him ok. I will never do that again. I"m not sure why he couldn't make straight 100% lamb sausage. I may have to revisit the idea with another butcher and see if he can make 100% lamb sausage. I also think I"ll try ground lamb next time.

Could it be that there isn't enough fat on it? I have to mix my ground deer sometimes because of that.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I know that question is for CackedNut but I wanted to chime in. I once had my lamb meat ground up and mixed with pork ( I think) and it was not good. The butcher explained something about the ground lamb having to be mixed with something else (another meat) and I told him ok. I will never do that again. I"m not sure why he couldn't make straight 100% lamb sausage. I may have to revisit the idea with another butcher and see if he can make 100% lamb sausage. I also think I"ll try ground lamb next time.

Could it be that there isn't enough fat on it? I have to mix my ground deer sometimes because of that.

You're probably right. I didn't ask him but I think I'll call tomorrow to ask him the reason why. I'll report back to you.