Stella's Social Club

[Happy Chooks]

That's okay Kathy, we'll laugh as you re-learn Icelandics101.

 

[The Sheriff]

The word is already out.

 

[chiqita]

The word is already out.

I always wonder where they think they are going anyway....

 

[1muttsfan]

 

[kathyinmo]

The word is already out.

YAY ! ! !

 

[The Sheriff]

The cream legbar curse continues. Yesterday my three girls ran to meet me for scratch. I threw a handful in their run and continued feeding the rest of the animals. When I walked back passed their run one of the girls was dead, right inside the gate. I kept her chilled until this morning then took her down to UC Davis for necropsy. Here's the report:


Examined is the carcass of a six month-old female chicken in good postmortem condition and good nutritional condition. Upon opening the coelomic cavity, there is a moderate amount of yellow, pasty to oily friable material covering the serosal surfaces. The serosa is multifocally discolored red.

Gross examination of this chicken reveals inflammation within the abdominal cavity (peritonitis) with embedded egg-yolk material. There are no other gross abnormalities. Diagnosis: Severe diffuse fibrinosuppurative peritonitis with egg yolk material.

Those girls haven't been laying very long and one laid a shell less egg at first and there have bee a couple of thin shelled eggs since. I guess they belonged to her. The real bummer for me is she was the one with the best crest and coloring for cream legbars. The bigger bummer is for her.

 

[speckledhen]

That is my curse with all hatchery stock hens, Mary. I've opened up so many of them myself to find exactly the same thing. Too bad she was so darn young.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I am sorry for your loss Mary.

 

[BlueWater29]

X2

 

[1muttsfan]

My yin and yang silkies, who have been brooding in a bucket on 5 CL eggs, have managed to hatch out 3 of the 5 eggs given them (so far). I had to unscrew the bucket from the wall to move it to a broody pen - the girls just hunkered down the whole time and never even peeped (they have been the sweetest broodies!).



I am getting quite a few eggs right now, so let me know if you would like some Mary