Possibly An Internal Layer *GRAPHIC PICS*

[Shadrach]

Gracious day, @Shadrach, thank you very much. I do love these birds, as I do most anything living, but more importantly I have taken them under my wing, so to speak, to care properly for them. I do try my darnedest to do everything by the book, with a lot of common sense thrown in. It’s my job.

When processing my other birds I have not noticed what I would call a considerable amount of fat either. Hers has been the most I guess. That’s why I was wondering.

As far as finding an avian vet I’d probably come up short. Around here we have the good old farm vets, however they are very experienced in all aspects of farm life (and animals) for the most part, but being an avian specialist, probably not so much. It is definitely worth a try though. And who knows, I might be greatly surprised. Once it warms up just a tad, we’ve dipped into the 40’s/20’s, and that’s COLD to me, I will be spending a lot of time with the chickens and can get a double sampling of their poop. Getting both from the same bird will take some determination and watching and waiting. I can do it though. I’m weird like that.

As for the article, hmmmm! Maybe I can just reproduce this last post of mine into one. Do you think that’s the best way? It is sometimes difficult doing all this on my phone. As a matter of fact, this morning I had already typed everything up and was inserting the pictures when I accidentally hit Post Reply! Oh dear Lord. I scrambled to copy everything in a hurry so I could delete the post, but was unsuccessful at copying it. Anyway, I started all over again. That was a bit heartbreaking.

Thank you again for your kind words.

Yup, running around behind a chicken with your hand out hoping to catch a fresh one isn't the greatest day out. They look really surprised when you make a grab for the sample.
I've got to be honest, keeping chickens is one of the hardest things I've done in my life.
Nobody should ever tell anyone its easy.
It's a human tragedy for backyard keepers in it's broadest definition. Even those that are strict about making a distinction between pet and food supply and/or study object or entertainment, I don't think one can help making an attachment.

Just a title and your post would be fine to turn this into an article I think. It's so well done it doesn't need any more.

 

[Mimi13]

Do you still have the heart?

No.

 

[Mimi13]

I would keep an eye out for if one starts to go downhill like Butter did this week.

I will, although she’s been a long time coming.

 

[Mimi13]

If you go and actually create an article and publish it I will copy and move everything over to the article for you from my computer.

Oh boy, that sounds like a deal if ever I’ve heard one! I’ll take you up on that. I’ll switch over to articles right now and set it up. I shall not sally on this incredible offer. Whoop whoop!

 

[Shadrach]

Now enter it into the Article Writing Contest Mimi....pretty please. It should win and even if it doesn't, it will get featured and people will read it.
It needs to be read.

 

[casportpony]

very sorry for your loss. Excellent job on the necropsy and great pictures! That's a lot of cecal worms, you gonna de-worm any birds?

 

[R2elk]

Also, @Texas Kiki, can you tell me how to edit my title to include *Graphic pics*? It may have been too long since I originally posted it and can’t do it.

Go to your original post, click on Thread Tools (right above the 1st post), click on edit title. As long as it has not been too long since you made the first post, it will allow you to do so. If too much time has passed, you will need to have a moderator make the change.

 

[casportpony]

Now enter it into the Article Writing Contest Mimi....pretty please. It should win and even if it doesn't, it will get featured and people will read it.
It needs to be read.

I agree, enter here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/official-byc-article-writing-contest-11.1290268/

 

[Mimi13]

Yup, running around behind a chicken with your hand out hoping to catch a fresh one isn't the greatest day out. They look really surprised when you make a grab for the sample.
I've got to be honest, keeping chickens is one of the hardest things I've done in my life.
Nobody should ever tell anyone its easy.
It's a human tragedy for backyard keepers in it's broadest definition. Even those that are strict about making a distinction between pet and food supply and/or study object or entertainment, I don't think one can help making an attachment.

Just a title and your post would be fine to turn this into an article I think. It's so well done it doesn't need any more.

You know, fortunately for me, I’ve never been one to half-a$$ anything, so when I started my venture into chicken keeping I thought I set myself up for success. I think I did for the most part, but there have been many things along the way that quickly grabbed my attention. Luckily, I’ve been able to gain control of whatever the situation was. I will agree with you that it is not easy and it’s unfortunate for the people who take it on expecting such. It’s also unfortunate for the chickens. After all, “it’s just a chicken.” I can’t stand that and I hear it at home as well. However, that is a whole other issue that I could go on and on forever about. But overall, I do believe the simplicity of it all is overly exaggerated, unfortunately so.

 

[Mimi13]

Now enter it into the Article Writing Contest Mimi....pretty please. It should win and even if it doesn't, it will get featured and people will read it.
It needs to be read.

Writing contest? I know nothing of this. How do I do this?