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[lvie]

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Ahhh - Good Morning Klops. Thanks for letting us know about the taco day. I would have missed out!

 

[Cebarmlds]

Ahhh - Good Morning Klops. Thanks for letting us know about the taco day. I would have missed out!

Had taco salads last night... so what the heck do I do now!

 

[Cebarmlds]

I have 2 chickies at 22 weeks old and yesterday I caught them looking mysteriously at the nest boxes, like they were suddenly a new thing. I've also seen them eating oyster shell. So it should be soon.

 

[lvie]

So running around with a get er done attitude. Went out to the coop to water and feed and check on the chickens. I found one dead right where she roosted inside the coop last night. I should have checked on her because she is typically on the roost in the main run. I just thought she decided to change her roost for the night. She looked fine to me on Sunday when I had time for a lot of chicken t.v. No reason for your condolences. Somehow I am detached from this.

I will be looking it up on line as to what to do but they are not always as clear as you chickeners are. She had stuff in her crop. What do I do with her carcass? I am going to put on plastic gloves and go exam the body but really have no idea what to look for. My main concern is the rest of the birds and what their odds are that they too will suddenly succumb to whatever this could possibly be.

No discharge from the nostril, No sneezing or coughing. Black Australorp. Just hatched this past March. And laying.

 

[lvie]

Went out and examined her and now I do feel bad. It was my cute BA with the black eyes. I have another with the gold eyes. This one was lethargic on Sunday and I thought that perhaps she was battling an infection. The reason i thought that was because her back feathers and tail feathers were missing. Earlier in the week I brought into the basement and washed the area applying an antibiotic ointment. After that, what tail feathers she had left were in a normal position and she was struttin her stuff. Until Sunday when she just looked peeked. Hmmmm - live and learn not to procrastinate when examining those hens.

 

[duluthralphie]

we are due for rain here tonight and tomorrow.

@duluthralphie did you survive the day? sleep it off all day?

I worked my butt off all day. I had to take care of the insurance stuff. Go pick up our cow. I sold and loaded an old 1949 ford pick up I had for sale, it was in about 10 pieces.

I finished my breeding pens (chicken one) and moved all my PC breeders into a pen. They are not all happy together but will learn to like each other. The Hen with the 2 chicks was being a tad pushy. Her chicks are 8 week old it is time she backed off a little. I think she is a helicopter Mom.

I worked with my show birds until well after dark. Them being inside makes it kind of nice to leave them until the end of the day when I can just turn on the lights and talk to them, while I feed and clean their pens.


I am not sure I will be getting anything done today. Judy has relapsed. I am trying to get her to let me take her to the ER right now, she is being stubborn, and wants to wait and try to see her doctor. I was worried they were making her go back to work too soon. She was able to help me around here a little for the last 10 days or so, but it would only be for a hour or couple hours and she could go in and lay down. There is a big difference between working here at home for a few hours and going back to work. Work and her short term disability insurance were both pushing her to go back to work. The jerks at Prudential were calling twice a week asking and not in a nice way. "what's wrong with you and why aren't you back at work?"

You just know the next thing would be some "investigator" taking pictures of her helping me and then claiming she was not disabled and was caught working at home. They sure like getting the premiums but sure try their best to never pay out.

It's raining! When did that start? I just noticed it..

If I do not go to the ER with Judy I will be spending the day in the shed again. Getting ready for spring/winter.

 

[duluthralphie]

Had taco salads last night... so what the heck do I do now!

Have Chow Mein, before National Chow Mein Day hits us... Stay ahead of the curve.

 

[duluthralphie]

Went out and examined her and now I do feel bad. It was my cute BA with the black eyes. I have another with the gold eyes. This one was lethargic on Sunday and I thought that perhaps she was battling an infection. The reason i thought that was because her back feathers and tail feathers were missing. Earlier in the week I brought into the basement and washed the area applying an antibiotic ointment. After that, what tail feathers she had left were in a normal position and she was struttin her stuff. Until Sunday when she just looked peeked. Hmmmm - live and learn not to procrastinate when examining those hens.

That is kind of the attitude a person has to take. There is not much you can do but make little adjustments for the next one. I am like you I feel bad when they die, but their is no need for condolences, they are chickens and not the family dog or a relative, assuming you like your relatives.

When I open them up I have no idea what I am looking for and most the time find nothing. It has to be something that jumps out at me. A huge organ, worms, watery insides something. Chickens don't live a long time they only have a "gestation" period of 21 days which is not very long to get all the innards working right. I know one old guy use to say there were no sick chickens, they were either dead or alive, their pain threshold is so high by the time you notice something is wrong they are dying or dead.

 

[KlopKlop]

I worked my butt off all day.  I had to take care of the insurance stuff. Go pick up our cow.  I sold and loaded an old 1949 ford pick up I had for sale, it was in about 10 pieces.

I finished my breeding pens (chicken one) and moved all my PC breeders into a pen.  They are not all happy together but will learn to like each other. The Hen with the 2 chicks was being a tad pushy. Her chicks are 8 week old it is time she backed off a little. I think she is a helicopter Mom.

I worked with my show birds until well after dark. Them being inside makes it kind of nice to leave them until the end of the day when I can just turn on the lights and talk to them, while I feed and clean their pens.


I am not sure I will be getting anything done today.  Judy has relapsed. I am trying to get her to let me take her to the ER right now, she is being stubborn, and wants to wait and try to see her doctor.  I was worried they were making her go back to work too soon.  She was able to help me around here a little for the last 10 days or so, but it would only be for a hour or couple hours and she could go in and lay down.  There is a big difference between working here at home for a few hours and going back to  work.  Work and her short term disability insurance were both pushing her to go back to work.  The jerks at Prudential were calling twice a week asking and not in a nice way. "what's wrong with you and why aren't you back at work?"

You just know the next thing would be some "investigator" taking pictures of her helping me and then claiming she was not disabled and was caught working at home.   They sure like getting the premiums but sure try their best to never pay out. 

It's raining!  When did that start? I just noticed it..

If I do not go to the ER with Judy I will be spending the day in the shed again. Getting ready for spring/winter.

You must not have been as tired as you claimed! By cow in assuming it can wrapped and frozen, not on the hoof?

Sorry to hear of the ailments of Your dear wife. You aren't wrong about insurance companies hiring private investigators to make sure they aren't getting defrauded. We do it. Now.... Don't get paranoid, it takes a lot of red flags to get that to happen. Usually we already know somebody is doing fishy stuff and have to do that in order to make a court case. Nobody is going to call fraud for her doing mild work around the home. If she was working a side job for pay.... That's another story.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Ivie so hard to know sometimes. In the end it just comes down to a live or dead chicken as Ralphie has said.

There are things that can be learned from it if you do figure it out... But that's about half the time.
I've had one die of fatty liver hemorrhages. She was a gluttonous bird. But also she was grained too much. Lesson learned.
unknown causes-- maybe a cancer.
egg yolk peritonitis deaths
Several predator deaths
One ate a crumble of miracle grow. Fertilizer is not a good thing to ingest. Felt bad about that.

Other common things are sour crop, broken egg shell in the cloaca that infects. Worms. Really possibilities are endless.

I'm getting to the point that no condolences are needed here either. The predation angers me a bit but it is what it is. When you free range those are the risks.