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Oh Gawd, mnhomestead. I'm not sure I should accept money for those...LOL. But thank you so much for your kind words. I've been sort of busy with MIL and FIL big anniversary preparations and really...all I want to do is sit down and paint a couple eggs to fill some holes in the Easter Tree! I like the barnyard scene ones too. I'll see if I get a chance to sit down with some paints and PM you if I get a scene or two painted and get your address.
 
Bogtown Chick said:
Oh Gawd, mnhomestead. I'm not sure I should accept money for those...LOL. But thank you so much for your kind words. I've been sort of busy with MIL and FIL big anniversary preparations and really...all I want to do is sit down and paint a couple eggs to fill some holes in the Easter Tree! I like the barnyard scene ones too. I'll see if I get a chance to sit down with some paints and PM you if I get a scene or two painted and get your address.
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Really!!
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That would be awesome! And yes, I would absolutely pay you or swap with you for them!
 
theacw said:
Has anyone sent a bird in to the U of MN for a necropsy?

How much did it cost?

What did you think of it all?

Just trying to decide if its worth it. I looked it up and it's $75 dollars but I always thought it was cheaper than that so just wondering if they raised the price. I am having my little hen put down next week because of a large mass that is growing rapidly while she is losing weight. I just don't know if it's worth 75 dollars to find out if it was cancerous or if she had anything else going on. But how much would it be to cremate her at the vet? Maybe it would be about the same, I have no idea.

Anyone have any advice or suggestions? Just sort of stressed and sad so trying to make sense of it all

Thanks
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I'm not sure, personally, I would necropsy for a fast growing mass.
I would search Egg Yolk Peritonitis on BYC. I have one hen that I'm pretty certain has it and another i'm slightly suspicious of. What breed of bird was it? Commonly shows up around the 2 year old mark, Prominent keel bone, mass in abdomen, green tubular poos with lots of water and urates, fluids collecting in the abodomen, fluffed up and sleepy, behind tilted downward = Egg yolk peritonitis. Causes seem to be genetics. Birds are selected and bred to lay and lay tons of eggs, The cloaca distends without much rest, fecal matter gets tracked up the fallopian tube, infection and scarring, --> egg yolks drop in the peritoneum, collect in a yellow yolk mass which infects the abdominal cavity, poisons the body, liver begins to fail and fluids fill the bird. That's what I've learned about it so far. Not fun business at all.... and a heart break to those that love their hens.
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theacw said:
Has anyone sent a bird in to the U of MN for a necropsy?

How much did it cost?

What did you think of it all?

Just trying to decide if its worth it. I looked it up and it's $75 dollars but I always thought it was cheaper than that so just wondering if they raised the price. I am having my little hen put down next week because of a large mass that is growing rapidly while she is losing weight. I just don't know if it's worth 75 dollars to find out if it was cancerous or if she had anything else going on. But how much would it be to cremate her at the vet? Maybe it would be about the same, I have no idea.

Anyone have any advice or suggestions? Just sort of stressed and sad so trying to make sense of it all

Thanks
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That is good info from Bogtown!
Also, where is this mass? Is it possible that she is egg bound? Could this be an egg that is stuck and building 'gunk' (for lack of a better term) on it and making it feel like it is getting larger? That, at least could be fixed possibly. If she is an internal layer as Bogtown described, then she needs to go.
Personally, for something like that, I would put it down if it is not eggbound, and cut her open to see what it was and use it as a way of learning more about the internal workings of a chicken. You would save yourself money and actually get to see things first hand instead of some grad student doing it for you.
 
As relates to the posts related to native Minnesotan or not. I am a native and don't understand why a non native would move here and stay. The weather is terrible for a good deal of the year and the politics and government bureaucracy stinks. The only reason I don't move is due to family attachments.
 
Thanks for the advice!

Its actually a large mass external that started as a golf ball size (on a bantam chicken) under her wing and has doubled…maybe tripled in the last month when I first found it. AGH so there is nothing that can be done or investigate. I already brought her to the vet and they quoted $800 to remove it. Even if I remove it, it could be cancerous and already spread and I would lose her quickly anyways.


I am so heart broken that I can't afford to shell out $800 dollars to remove it but now that it is growing rapidly, I'm thinkings its cancerous. I am going to bring her in a week from Tuesday.

Enjoying a NICE SUNNY day in Minnesota during her last week with me <3

 
ejb3810 said:
As relates to the posts related to native Minnesotan or not. I am a native and don't understand why a non native would move here and stay. The weather is terrible for a good deal of the year and the politics and government bureaucracy stinks. The only reason I don't move is due to family attachments.
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My husband is from Iowa, I am from Western NY. We met in the Navy and when we got out, this is where his job brought us. It is where our kids have grown up, so it is now and forever will be home for us.
 

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