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CapricornFarm said:
I got 2 different sized eggs today, so that means i have 2 girls laying! Oh, and one was a double yolker!
I realized today that i am more likely to cook things for the chickens than i am for myself! :gig
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Congrats on egg #2! I haven't gotten a double in a long time.. apparently it's a young bird thing.

FlyingNunFarm said:
It’s hard to see in the pictures but each scale is individually long. It’s almost like a callus, cause it’s thick feeling, but I don’t see any signs of bumble. It doesn’t seem to bother her in the least. I’m more concerned with stuff getting stuck and causing problems.
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I would consider soaking it before you do anything, esp if there might be poop or dirt stuck to it. That way it's clean and it'd make it easier to file/ trim.

pitbullmomma said:
Weird. Sometimes dogs get this thing on their pads, I think it's called hyperkertosis (it's been awhile, lol) where the individual little teeny bits of their paw keep growing, and it can get longish, almost like hair! But it's part of their pad, like excess keratin. I wonder if chickens can get this?

Maybe try trimming it back a little, if it bleeds, stop and apply pressure and/or a little Quick-Stop.

You gotta love those weird-ass little anomalies...!

ETA: Here's a good pic I found online that shows this in a dog. I'll have to Google hyperkeratosis in chickens, now!

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Oh snap!!

I just found this in Poultry Science Journal (January 2011)
Hen welfare in different housing systems
D. C. Lay, Jr. R. M. Fulton P. Y. Hester D. M. Karcher J. B. Kjaer J. A. M

by doing a quick Google search:

Hyperkeratosis (hypertrophy of the corneus layer of the skin) occurs on the toe- and footpads of caged hens (Duncan et al., 1992; Weitzenbürger et al., 2006). A lower incidence of toepad hyperkeratosis occurs in furnished as compared with conventional cages (Abrahamsson and Tauson, 1997). Hyperkeratosis is caused by increased compression load of the toe- or footpad on the wire floor of the cage as well as the perch (Weitzenbürger et al., 2006). The slope of the wired cage floor has also been implicated as causing a higher frequency of hyperkeratosis among caged hens as compared with noncage hens (Abrahamsson and Tauson, 1995). Hyperkeratosis is most likely less painful than bumblefoot (Tauson, 2002).

I am GOOD, peeps. Think I'm gonna be chicken vet when I grow up! ;)
 
pitbullmomma said:
Oh snap!!

I just found this in Poultry Science Journal January 2011 doing a quick Google search:

Hyperkeratosis (hypertrophy of the corneus layer of the skin) occurs on the toe- and footpads of caged hens (Duncan et al., 1992; Weitzenbürger et al., 2006). A lower incidence of toepad hyperkeratosis occurs in furnished as compared with conventional cages (Abrahamsson and Tauson, 1997). Hyperkeratosis is caused by increased compression load of the toe- or footpad on the wire floor of the cage as well as the perch (Weitzenbürger et al., 2006). The slope of the wired cage floor has also been implicated as causing a higher frequency of hyperkeratosis among caged hens as compared with noncage hens (Abrahamsson and Tauson, 1995). Hyperkeratosis is most likely less painful than bumblefoot (Tauson, 2002).

I am GOOD, peeps. Think I'm gonna be chicken vet when I grow up! ;)
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Oh please don't grow up!!
 
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pitbullmomma said:
Oh snap!!

I just found this in Poultry Science Journal (January 2011)
Hen welfare in different housing systems
D. C. Lay, Jr. R. M. Fulton P. Y. Hester D. M. Karcher J. B. Kjaer J. A. M

by doing a quick Google search:

Hyperkeratosis (hypertrophy of the corneus layer of the skin) occurs on the toe- and footpads of caged hens (Duncan et al., 1992; Weitzenbürger et al., 2006). A lower incidence of toepad hyperkeratosis occurs in furnished as compared with conventional cages (Abrahamsson and Tauson, 1997). Hyperkeratosis is caused by increased compression load of the toe- or footpad on the wire floor of the cage as well as the perch (Weitzenbürger et al., 2006). The slope of the wired cage floor has also been implicated as causing a higher frequency of hyperkeratosis among caged hens as compared with noncage hens (Abrahamsson and Tauson, 1995). Hyperkeratosis is most likely less painful than bumblefoot (Tauson, 2002).

I am GOOD, peeps. Think I'm gonna be chicken vet when I grow up! ;)
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Ha! She’s never been in a wire bottom cage! It is like the dog foot pad. She is a beefy girl maybe she’s rough on her feet. I think I’ll try trimming it and see how it is. Just so strange...
 
apryl29 said:
Is this one of those 'one of these things isn't like the other' posts? Or are you discreetly trying to tell us that your child is now a has become one with the snow and will be living outside now.
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When I come on here in a couple days and the PIC has a fever and sniffles, etc etc.... THIS is my proof of what HIS FATHER lets him do.... just layin in the snow... in the driveway... in the snow.....



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