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Wish you had been here to help with that necropsy. Or at least keep DH from yelling through the door.

Honey, it sounds like you needed no help. You did a fantastic job. A pathologist couldn't have done a better job, well explained for the layperson. Hats off (and for your courage in doing that. I couldn't even necropsy my own little Mini Fleuf. You have the heart of an angel and the soul of a scientist).

BRAVO:clap

...and FWIW, because of your post, I will be feeding a LOT less scratch to my chooks. You may have saved quite a few folks' chickens with that!
 
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0300985813503569

A very long but interesting read.

Yes her comb and wattles were VERY PALE when she was found even though she was still warm.

And also there’s a higher incidence in “spring”, which it is at least here where I live in the very southeast, although the chickens cited in this study are from Northern California.
 
Good afternoon! I think I'm going to have to set up the bigger brooder today the little heathens are super active when they're awake. Since I had to divvy out chick grit early I decided to dig out some baby mealies to see if the babes were interested and yeah they're very interested. I also had to rename Cracker to Cookie because hubs had an issue with cracker. I still haven't named number 3 which is waaay smaller than Early and Cookie that gives me a real suspicion number 3 is a boy.:)
 
Honey, it sounds like you needed no help. You did a fantastic job. A pathologist couldn't have done a better job, well explained for the layperson. Hats off (and for your courage in doing that. I couldn't even necropsy my own little Mini Fleuf. You have the heart of an angel and the soul of a scientist).

BRAVO:clap

...and FWIW, because of your post, I will be feeding a LOT less scratch to my chooks. You may have saved quite a few folks' chickens with that!
I had to “go back” to my old days as a vet tech.
I would have enjoyed working with you.
 
Thanks for letting me know.
Gosh I hope my new toughness with treats isn’t too late /or breaks my dh’s Heart.
Just change the treats to leafy greens like Ron says. I cut back on scratch by cooking it so it swells up. A couple spoonfuls in the pot looks like a lot more. I break some eggs in it and add leftover meat. And chopped apples or cabbage. They love a warm treat on a cold day.
 
I want some!!! Damn, now I gotta cook bacon... and today is *meatless Monday*.. ha!!
2 options. 1. Pretend you don't know it's Monday, make some and when people get home and tell you say Well, can't let it go to waste. 2. Make some, say you're meal prepping for tomorrow.. but make sure you sample some to make sure it's good.

Hopefully the others do not have it and it does help!

It is common in certain breed--usually from a hatchery and often the best egg layers. Going with low carb treats will help all of them though
That's good to know.. my ladies are going on a diet.

Good morning, and smuvey, thanks for picking up the slack, I really appreciate it. I was falling asleep during kitchen chicken time last night. (For Ron - we are a small, accidental chicken home. Our first chicken came to us on a rainy night in Oct 2016, she walked in to our garage and had been nice and warm in our living room ever since. Four months later we decided she needed a friend, who she gets along with, but lives in a separate pen next to the first one's pen. Every night they get free range in the kitchen and part of the living room, hence kitchen chicken. Gurtrude is the one who got us addicted, and is a small, standard Easter Egger who lays pastel mint green eggs, while Lizbeth is a gold laced banty cochin who lays brown eggs).

I use corner feeders for food, and hanging chicken canteens for oyster shell, but that doesn't work well for the average flock keeping folk, just is weirdos. It would, however, work for hospital, quarantine, chicken jail or any other need to isolate a bird or two.
I have a small dog cage I use for when there's chicken issues. I used zip ties and a small lunch meat container for feed, and used @FlyingNunFarm's milk jug idea for water.. it worked well, until the water froze and there was no way to remove the container w/o cutting the ties, or melting the water. Fortunately she was only confined for a week so it wasn't a huge problem. In the future I'd probably swap the 2 and put water in the other container, but I'd put the holes too low and wasn't going to deal with it then. I don't have enough floor space to have stuff hanging from the ceiling.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0300985813503569

A very long but interesting read.

Yes her comb and wattles were VERY PALE when she was found even though she was still warm.

And also there’s a higher incidence in “spring”, which it is at least here where I live in the very southeast, although the chickens cited in this study are from Northern California.
It make sense b/c in the winter people feed their birds stuff like scratch and corn b/c it warms them as it digests. Another cautionary tale, I guess.
 
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