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barbiegirl said:
I am trying now. She started to walk like a penguin and I brought her in and soaked her, put lube in her vent, and gave her extra calcium. I felt a hard egg shaped lump by her vent then and still do. I kept her inside for about a week before putting her back outside. She was very depressed inside.

Symptoms of an internal layer with peritonitis can include:
  • Yolk colored feces
  • Weakness
  • Loss of appetite
  • Lethargy/Depression
  • Swollen & spongy feeling vent area and/or abdomen
  • Respiratory problems
  • Fluffed feathers
  • Penguin stance; abnormal waddle

The only signs she has there is penguin walking. Her abdomen is swollen but doesn't feel spongy, there is a hard egg shaped feeling. She eats and drinks fine. She waddles all over the yard. Her comb is still red, not pale. When she was inside the poops weren't yolk colored. I was checking to make sure she pooped and she did. Sometimes she cannot get back into the coop at night and I put her in. Every day I think I will find her dead but she is still holding on. She keeps trying to push out an egg. I can see her pushing but nothing comes out, besides a poop. Maybe she has tumors?

If I process her, to put her out of her suffering, could I feed her to my dogs? We will be processing our extra roosters and turkey soon. If there is something really wrong with her I wouldn't want my dogs to get sick from eating her. She is my oldest hen.
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Bgirl:

For my two cents, don't do anything....all birds poop yellow/brown sometimes...there are threads on the subject on BYC...maybe its not egg bound and something else....perhaps you could call New Boulton and get an expert's opinion.....my two cents....
 
barbiegirl said:
She looks so happy today. She was sun and dust bathing. 


Yesterday we tried out a new to us wood chipper. That thing is loud and our little flock of free ranging chicks took off. I was calling to them and looking for them and couldn't find them. It was getting late and my cat found me. I was holding her and then she seen something moving in the ferns. She jumped down and went to get the "mouse". The mouse turned out to be my missing chicks. She stopped and didn't attack them. She is a live stock protector cat I guess lol.
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That's hilarious! At least she didn't pounce! :lol:

Hounds51 said:
Hi I am back after a long absence..
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Welcome back! :frow


MotorcycleChick said:
I had been planning on moving my chickens back to the big coop tonight. Since I only pulled the rest of my vegetables yesterday, I decided to give the girls a few days of eating whatever was left behind, and tilling and fertilizing the garden. Somehow one girl got out yesterday, and I don't know how. Well, the neighbor came to my door half an hour ago to alert me to all six being in her yard. THE MOMENT I spoke, all six came running to me!! :eek: I have never gotten this reaction from them! I had to go back in to change, and when I came back out, all six ran after me straight into their old coop. I guess God has other plans for my week, and He knew I needed to move them tonight. :idunno
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That's awesome. My husband always gets a kick out it when the chickens follow me around the yard. They know who feeds them..:lol:

@dheltzel Do all the female Rhodebar chicks have brown speckled patterns? I have three Rhodebar chicks, and they all look Iike pullets, but I'd like to know before I rehome them. Thanks! :D
 
stake said:
Bgirl:

For my two cents, don't do anything....all birds poop yellow/brown sometimes...there are threads on the subject on BYC...maybe its not egg bound and something else....perhaps you could call New Boulton and get an expert's opinion.....my two cents....
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She made it back into the coop again tonight. The entrance is about 2 feet off the ground. She is still hanging in there. As long as she is enjoying life I will let her live.
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
@dheltzel Do all the female Rhodebar chicks have brown speckled patterns? I have three Rhodebar chicks, and they all look Iike pullets, but I'd like to know before I rehome them. Thanks!
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Males look completely different at every age. Males have a *lot* of white, females have very little. Search for some pics to see what I mean. If you describe them as "brown speckled", they are female. Whoever gets them will be very happy, they are great layers and the calmest breed I have (at least in LF, silkie and cochin bantams aren't a fair comparison).

I'm not surprised you got all females, one week I hatched 11 and 10 were male, so yours are just evening out the overall ratio.
 
dheltzel said:
Males look completely different at every age. Males have a *lot* of white, females have very little. Search for some pics to see what I mean. If you describe them as "brown speckled", they are female. Whoever gets them will be very happy, they are great layers and the calmest breed I have (at least in LF, silkie and cochin bantams aren't a fair comparison).

I'm not surprised you got all females, one week I hatched 11 and 10 were male, so yours are just evening out the overall ratio.
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Let's not jump the gun there, haha. I may have on male, there is one that looks a little lighter than the other two. I will have to see if I can snap some pics. Maybe then I can compare them, they move too fast otherwise!
 
dheltzel said:
There is an element of chance with any living thing. It could have been something genetic, but very likely the 2 pullets died from very different causes. If you had 20 and 2 died, you would chalk it up to weaknesses or chance. It's always harder when you have very few of a breed you really want to keep for the long term. Every time I go to the farm, I go by the pens with the stock I'm growing out for next year but that I only have 1 or 2 pairs of. I do a quick head count just to be sure they are safe. I hope nothing happens to them, but sometimes things go wrong.

I will have more CCL pullets for you whenever we can figure out how to get them to you.
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Thank you so much :) would you happen to have 2 available when the chicken train rolls through? I'll be meeting emorems0 for a Tom from chiques chicks anyway.
 
So, hubs called over to me this morning as I was getting the kids ready for school, "hey, put your shoes on... one of your turkeys are checking out the woods out back." As I put my shoes on he says "too late, it's in the woods." I run over to look and I see movement heading up the hill in the woods but I can't see it very clearly, it is already too far in. I look over to the turkey pen and all 4 of our turkeys are in the pen where they belong (okay, one was in the chicken run, but they all were accounted for). So we decided it was a wild turkey and went on with our day.

Later hubs commented that it was strange because it was lighter brown like our turkeys instead of dark brown like a wild turkey. I didn't see it before it was all the way in the woods but he said it looked just like our bourbon reds. It dawned on me that maybe it WAS one of ours, the one that disappeared a several months ago. It was strange because it had just disappeared, there weren't any feather piles or anything like it had been attacked and I thought maybe it had gone into the woods so I watched for it for days afterwards but never found any trace of it. Is it possible for a turkey to go rouge in the woods for months and months and survive? Is there any chance I could somehow get it back from the wild if it is, in fact, our missing turkey? I'm tempted to post a picture on my neighborhood FB group like a missing dog post, lol.
 
emorems0 said:
So, hubs called over to me this morning as I was getting the kids ready for school, "hey, put your shoes on... one of your turkeys are checking out the woods out back." As I put my shoes on he says "too late, it's in the woods." I run over to look and I see movement heading up the hill in the woods but I can't see it very clearly, it is already too far in. I look over to the turkey pen and all 4 of our turkeys are in the pen where they belong (okay, one was in the chicken run, but they all were accounted for). So we decided it was a wild turkey and went on with our day.

Later hubs commented that it was strange because it was lighter brown like our turkeys instead of dark brown like a wild turkey. I didn't see it before it was all the way in the woods but he said it looked just like our bourbon reds. It dawned on me that maybe it WAS one of ours, the one that disappeared a several months ago. It was strange because it had just disappeared, there weren't any feather piles or anything like it had been attacked and I thought maybe it had gone into the woods so I watched for it for days afterwards but never found any trace of it. Is it possible for a turkey to go rouge in the woods for months and months and survive? Is there any chance I could somehow get it back from the wild if it is, in fact, our missing turkey? I'm tempted to post a picture on my neighborhood FB group like a missing dog post, lol.
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How strange! I hope it yours and that it returns to you. Keep us updated...
 

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