South Carolina

[emptynester]

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Yes, they can die from it if scabs cover their eyes can they can't find the food, or scabs over their nostrils and they can't breathe. But worse is wet pox, because it's on the inside of their mouths and throat and can swell big enough to cut off the bird's airway where they can't breathe. It's one of those things you just keep an eye on.

 

[pinkwindsong]

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Yes, they can die from it if scabs cover their eyes can they can't find the food, or scabs over their nostrils and they can't breathe. But worse is wet pox, because it's on the inside of their mouths and throat and can swell big enough to cut off the bird's airway where they can't breathe. It's one of those things you just keep an eye on.

my goodness I never knew there was so many different ailments chickens can get. between sickness predators and weather variations. its a wonder any make it through the year.. whewww..

 

[Moonchild]

Well Rosie(SWL) fecal was negative, but i noticed these small lookin cells in the poo, me and other techs sure it's not eggs cause they where all different sizes. So I'm gonna do three day of ABX and see what happens. BUt her poo is bright green and sort of foamy.?.?.?

HERE's my Babies!!!! I'm not even asking if anyone sees roos.......
Momma with babies...She still sits on them at night well they are under her wings at night.

Blue Chick and Bleu...Oh he GOT me today...and then he got a size 9 1/2 to the chest....a$$....
Thank goodness he's good to the Gurls!!!

Such weird pretty coloring...

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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Doesn't bright green mean something to do with the liver?

 

[Moonchild]

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Doesn't bright green mean something to do with the liver?

Oh I have no idea...but it is full of grass.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I will give you my 2 cents worth on this. Others may not agree but I have found it to work for me when I have the very rare egg eater. And believe me, with as many birds as I have this method has worked well for me in the past years.
Up the protein. It is a myth that they only eat their eggs because of low calcium intake. (One reason I could not continue classes at college. Scientific proof meant nothing to them!

) Most chickens rarely eat their own eggs for calcium. They just take it from other sources in their body, depleting those sources and eventually failing in health.
Put out oyster shell and see if that helps.

Countless times people ask me why their chickens continue to bust the eggs and eat them even with oyster shell available and layer as the main diet. Have you seen the amount of protein they put in layer? It is pitiful!
A chicken that is able to run loose on an acre or more with vegetation and bugs is getting way, way, way more protein from plant and animal matter!
Black oil sunflower seed has about 33% protein. Have you all seen how much they gobble that up? My chickens free range and still consume massive amounts of that seed.

Go buy a can of cheap tuna or mackerel or anything in the meat dept where the protein is higher than laying mash. Canned cat food is a favorite and even some dry cat food can have high amounts of protein but I hesitate to feed anything with added salt and commercial foods are very high in salt. Ever wonder why dogs and cats go into kidney failure around 8-10 years old? Dogs with congestive heart failure and Cushings disease, I blame on commercial feed. But I digress......

If you ever read my words as I drone on about chickens, you will know I say that I feed a lot of chick starter to my grown birds. Higher protein. But I also feed as much BOSS as I can and anything else that has high protein. Last winter I even bought a few bags of that floating Koi food to mix in with the layer and starter mash. It was high protein and cheaper than BOSS.
And now I grow meal worms.

If you have enough extra eggs then hard boil them and feed them back, shell and all (no use making too much work for yourself). The protein from the yolk is what those birds are really after.

If they are actually eating an egg that is not already cracked or broken then you have a problem.
If they are seeing a crack in an egg and going after it then it is natural. They know they must remove a "bad" egg or it will attract
predators.

I hope I have helped you and this will solve any problems.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Very cute pic. That's how I feel after a long night of firefighting.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Yes, they can die from it if scabs cover their eyes can they can't find the food, or scabs over their nostrils and they can't breathe. But worse is wet pox, because it's on the inside of their mouths and throat and can swell big enough to cut off the bird's airway where they can't breathe. It's one of those things you just keep an eye on.

my goodness I never knew there was so many different ailments chickens can get. between sickness predators and weather variations. its a wonder any make it through the year.. whewww..

That is one good reason to own ducks! They are much less likely to catch anything.

 

[Moonchild]

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I LOVE your designer chickens!!!! The mille fleur d'Uccles are way to Awesome!! and the Photo of the week is a cutie!!!! it's a Frizzle mo Sizzle right

You know I can never get that term right!!!! lol

 

[dixiebeast]

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I will give you my 2 cents worth on this. Others may not agree but I have found it to work for me when I have the very rare egg eater. And believe me, with as many birds as I have this method has worked well for me in the past years.
Up the protein. It is a myth that they only eat their eggs because of low calcium intake. (One reason I could not continue classes at college. Scientific proof meant nothing to them!

) Most chickens rarely eat their own eggs for calcium. They just take it from other sources in their body, depleting those sources and eventually failing in health.
Put out oyster shell and see if that helps.

Countless times people ask me why their chickens continue to bust the eggs and eat them even with oyster shell available and layer as the main diet. Have you seen the amount of protein they put in layer? It is pitiful!
A chicken that is able to run loose on an acre or more with vegetation and bugs is getting way, way, way more protein from plant and animal matter!
Black oil sunflower seed has about 33% protein. Have you all seen how much they gobble that up? My chickens free range and still consume massive amounts of that seed.

Go buy a can of cheap tuna or mackerel or anything in the meat dept where the protein is higher than laying mash. Canned cat food is a favorite and even some dry cat food can have high amounts of protein but I hesitate to feed anything with added salt and commercial foods are very high in salt. Ever wonder why dogs and cats go into kidney failure around 8-10 years old? Dogs with congestive heart failure and Cushings disease, I blame on commercial feed. But I digress......

If you ever read my words as I drone on about chickens, you will know I say that I feed a lot of chick starter to my grown birds. Higher protein. But I also feed as much BOSS as I can and anything else that has high protein. Last winter I even bought a few bags of that floating Koi food to mix in with the layer and starter mash. It was high protein and cheaper than BOSS.
And now I grow meal worms.

If you have enough extra eggs then hard boil them and feed them back, shell and all (no use making too much work for yourself). The protein from the yolk is what those birds are really after.

If they are actually eating an egg that is not already cracked or broken then you have a problem.
If they are seeing a crack in an egg and going after it then it is natural. They know they must remove a "bad" egg or it will attract
predators.

I hope I have helped you and this will solve any problems.

Yesterday morn when it happend they were in my bitty pen,cramped,with no box...one laid and most of the others attacked the egg...it was not cracked...I figured it was their poor accomodations as were were finishing the new run(this was only overnight).Today when I got home I went down to new run(8x10 for 7 gals who will get free time out in afternoons)and could tell there had been activity in the boxes but no egg. I was lucky enough to be at the run when a BO started scratching in a box.Within 10 mins she popped an egg while I watched!!!! As soon as she came out of the box 2 RIRs were trying to get the egg,again,not cracked ,but it was also not the free for all the day before.The nest box is a 3 box setup that lookes like a dollhouse that was on a raised shelf in another run and we had put it on just 4x4's on the ground so it was only a couple inches off ground and all could see in.We have raised it a couple feet to see how tomorrow goes...I may be camping by the coop/run sat morn!! I will def make sure the new gals get caught up on protien...my gals get some free time most days and always plenty of veggie treats so maybe the new gals will get past this after a few days of tlc...I wouldnt have worried if the egg was broke or they were still in a small pen...THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE ADVICE!!!I will keep everyone updated...still waiting on an egg from my origional gals!!!