Official Squatch Watchers

Pics
Date sort Score sort
Smuvers Farm said:
I've been meaning to ask, how did we get @ronott1 to adopt us Squatchers?!? :idunno :gig
Click to expand...
I saw the thread pop up on the recent tab on the browser...The name was intriguing to me and here I am!
 
staceyj said:
Poor DH Just went out to check for eggs and found his favorite girl Maggie (13 months old) dead on her back in the coop.
She was just in the nest box an hour or so ago and as always, was first out of the house and into the run this morning.
What the heck happened??!!
I’m considering doing a homestyle necropsy this afternoon.

DH is outside crying at the moment. Picking out a burial spot.

Thoughts?
Click to expand...

Oh, Stacey I am so sorry! That sucks!!:hit:hugs
 
ronott1 said:
That is fatty liver disease.

Like I posted earlier, some breeds are prone to it. The liver often ruptures during egg laying.

I stopped giving my hens scratch or other grains as treats. Mine get kale now in the morning as a treat.
Click to expand...
Thanks for letting me know.
Gosh I hope my new toughness with treats isn’t too late /or breaks my dh’s Heart.
 
staceyj said:
Thanks for letting me know.
Gosh I hope my new toughness with treats isn’t too late /or breaks my dh’s Heart.
Click to expand...
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
 
staceyj said:
Wish you had been here to help with that necropsy. Or at least keep DH from yelling through the door.
Click to expand...
:hugs I know it is hard to do that but it really helps! You know what she died from now so you do not have to worry about some terrible disease killing the rest of the flock.

It also helps with prevention to know what happened.
 
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.
 
Anansi said:
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.
Click to expand...
I have a similar setup for chicken hospital. I have a dog kennel with rabbit feeders for food and water.

Chickens have never shown up at my place! Maybe one day....
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom