My First Non-Hatchery Internal Layer...I'm so Tired of This

[Year of the Rooster]

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Are you suggesting there are chicken STD's?

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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Are you suggesting there are chicken STD's?

LOL!!! YES I AM!!! Goats, horses and dogs get them . . . Smarty pants YOU think of something! LOL. Personally I think it sounds like early menopause and wonder if estrogen containing plants might help (other than soy). But if we can blame it on the man I mean rooster . . .

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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Are you suggesting there are chicken STD's?

LOL!!! YES I AM!!! Goats, horses and dogs get them . . . Smarty pants YOU think of something! LOL. Personally I think it sounds like early menopause and wonder if estrogen containing plants might help (other than soy). But if we can blame it on the man I mean rooster . . .

*sigh*

Roosters are a pain... But some are tolerable

 

[speckledhen]

I consulted Dr. Peter Brown about all these last year and showed him the pictures of what we removed from the deceased hens. He told me it was classic internal laying, that it is usually a hormonal thing and that maybe, after having so many of them from the same place die of this, I should probably not get anymore birds from there, if possible. Could be genetic or something in the management of the breeder flocks at the hatchery, but there is no cure for it and no way to predict it.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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HA! so I probably hit the hormonal thing right, but I thought this one was from a different place?
So how about trying linseed oil AKA flax seed, pomegranates, and red clover.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

By the way how is she doing?

 

[speckledhen]

She seems okay at the moment. She's had three days of heavy penicillin doses, plus extra protein and yogurt, blueberries, etc. She acts fine, alert with good appetite, but is so bone thin. We'll just have to hope we got to the infection in time with her.
Yes, she is from a breeder, not a hatchery. All my other six who were affected were from the same hatchery and most of them, the same age. This doesn't only affect hatchery stock, of course, however that has been my personal experience, that it's more prevalent in hatchery birds... six hatchery birds and only one breeder bird have had this here.

BTW, they do on occasion get flax seed in their feed. Haven't heard about pomegranates ,though.

 

[Judy]

How is she doing now?