The Front Porch Swing

[Lacy Blues]

Not sure it is vent gleet. No symptoms except for poop and it's not a funny color, no smell, no swelling, no redness.

If it doesn't smell to high heavens, its not vent gleet.

Nope...a chicken should never, ever have a bath...well...unless she is going to show and a lot of money is in the offing, or if she has somehow stumbled into an oil spill or tar pit. Maybe a spot wash on just the vent area, but I never advocate washing away all their natural oils and dust on the feathers and skin.

I found out the hard way that washing that area just seems to make the poop stick more...maybe because the oils are no longer present that allows it to dry up and be picked off by the bird?

It depends on what soap you use. I use baby shampoo when I have to bathe a bird and I don't leave it on long at all. Don't want the oils stripped off.

I was in grade school for most of it! The music was the best in the 70s, the summers were longer and everyone was more innocent. Kids actually went outside and played in large groups, TV only had 2 channels and we never watched it much, the food was better, pop was just better and actually quenched your thirst. The cars we were driving were from the 50s-60s, which were the golden era of big, can't die engines and cars that were built like tanks, gas was cheap, and so was candy.

Near the end of the 70s my folks went back to the land and we homesteaded for the next 12 years, no utilities, no running water, good and simple living, hard work, healthy foods and lifestyle and a lot of learning.

Yep...the 70s were the bomb-diggity for me!

I loved the 70s. That is exactly what we used to do. We'd play frisbee in the evening until we couldn't see. Lots of fun!

 

[Lacy Blues]

I had the strangest thing today. I culled one of the roosters cuz I just got tired of his aggravating ways. Not mean, just not roosterish.

While I was gutting him, there was this little sack about the size of a marble. I had never seen this in any of the birds I'd cleaned before. It was close to the gizzard and had a little tubule type thing so that it could drain into the intestines. I set this little sack aside as I wanted to cut it open and see what it was. Now I wish I had taken pictures.

After finishing him up, I cut that little sack open and can you guess what was inside?

It was an oil gland! It had oil in it like the gland at the base of their tails! So, then I decided to check and see... does his oil gland have oil in it? I removed that from the body and then sliced it open. It was dry inside except for just a little of the oils that get semi solidified.

Have any of you others experienced this?

 

[Beekissed]

I had the strangest thing today. I culled one of the roosters cuz I just got tired of his aggravating ways. Not mean, just not roosterish.

While I was gutting him, there was this little sack about the size of a marble. I had never seen this in any of the birds I'd cleaned before. It was close to the gizzard and had a little tubule type thing so that it could drain into the intestines. I set this little sack aside as I wanted to cut it open and see what it was. Now I wish I had taken pictures.

After finishing him up, I cut that little sack open and can you guess what was inside?

It was an oil gland! It had oil in it like the gland at the base of their tails! So, then I decided to check and see... does his oil gland have oil in it? I removed that from the body and then sliced it open. It was dry inside except for just a little of the oils that get semi solidified.

Have any of you others experienced this?

Not as I can recall. The only sac I can think of near the gizzard that is connected to the bowel would be the pancreas but it shouldn't have oil in it.

 

[DufferChick]

Not quite a pot roast, but I make this in the crockpot and it uses a chuck roast.
One of my favorite things for supper:
BBQ Shredded Beef
4 lb beef chuck pot roast
2 large onions chopped  
1 c ketchup
1 c beef broth
2/3 c chili sauce
1/4 c cider vinegar
1/4 c brown sugar
3 tbs Worcestershire sauce
2 tbs mustard
2 tbs molasses
2 tbs lemon juice
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/8 tsp pepper
- heat a heavy dutch oven on high with 1 tbls oil, brown beef roast on all sides, place roast in crockpot.
- turn heat down to medium, cook onions in dutch oven until slightly opaque.  Add rest of ingredients and mix well, scraping up all the browned beef bits from the bottom of the pan.  Pour over roast.  Cook on low for 8 hours or till beef is falling apart.
- remove beef roast and shred with a fork.  Put back into sauce and stir well.  Serve on hard rolls.

Welcome to the new-comers!

Looks like a good recipe! Similar ingredients that I use for pork BBQ. Never thought about using a crock pot, though. Think I will try your recipe this weekend.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Not as I can recall. The only sac I can think of near the gizzard that is connected to the bowel would be the pancreas but it shouldn't have oil in it.

That would be a slightly larger sac that is dark red like the liver, correct?

 

[Triple Willow]

That would be a slightly larger sac that is dark red like the liver, correct?

That's the spleen. The pancreas is a light colored rubber band looking thing that is kinda wound up/connected to the intestine in sorta a loop.

 

[BCMaraniac]

That's the spleen. The pancreas is a light colored rubber band looking thing that is kinda wound up/connected to the intestine in sorta a loop.

My hens LOVE the spleen!!

 

[Triple Willow]

My hens LOVE the spleen!!

Yuck... a little ball of mush. lol But... we do eat the liver, a bigger piece of mush. Let's don't think too hard about that. LOL

 

[Triple Willow]

I can't get the pic to download on here but here is a pretty good pic showing the chicken anatomy. It doesn't show the kidneys because they are embedded in the ribs down each side of the backbone. They look a lot like the spleen and liver in consistency.
http://www2.ca.uky.edu/poultryprofi...my_and_Physiology/labeled_digestive_tract.png

 

[Triple Willow]

Here is a pic showing the kidneys. http://www2.ca.uky.edu/poultryprofi...pter3_Anatomy_and_Physiology/labeled_back.png