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[perchie.girl]

last radiation appointment is today.... I get to ring the bell...

 

[microchick]

Ring that bell LOUD, Deb! Congratulations!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Now I'm starting to feel a bit picked on.

Lost another hen today.Found her dead as a rock in the coop. Looks like she fell off the perch...the end. This one is another don't know what happened. She looked healthy. No egg bound up, keel bone muscle good, by all indications one of my resistant girls. Only thing I saw was poopy vent feathers and I could see her oviduct but not even out far enough to be a true prolapse.

Dang I hate it when they die like that. That's 5 in 10 days.

I am not going to like that post, because i hate that! Knock on wood, i have not had any keel over or look poorly recently. I hope you have no more losses this year. Hugs.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

 

[ronott1]

last radiation appointment is today.... I get to ring the bell...

That makes my Day!

 

[microchick]

Thanks @CapricornFarm. If it was another prolapse I don't know what to do at this point as I put them on lower protein food after I lost a hen to a prolapse last fall and wanted to drop weight on the rest of the Buff Os. I do Keel Bone checks regularly and I'd say that 80% are where they should be and 20% are a bit thin. This hen that I just lost showed no signs of illness at all. She was out scratching around with the other hens and looking for a cool breeze like we all were. Went to roost and died.

Told DH that I was starting to hate going out to the big chicken's coop in the morning. I had 22 large fowl hens. Down to 13 in 18 months. Rooster loss has been high also, but at least the bantam gang is holding their own, the only loss in over a year being the little cockerel that just died at 3.5 months of age. My hens are happily sitting on 3 eggs apiece and trading eggs and nests regularly. I can 't wait to see them swap chicks.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning back to life here coops done have my Gatorade for the day
spent a good hour with the peep in my pocket again it is so it may hear the other 5 I bought

 

[chickadoodles]

Perchie That is WONDERFUL!!!!

 

[drumstick diva]

Perchie

 

[bruceha2000]

Even my 6 month old turkey wanted to sit on my shoulder!

That must have been quite uncomfortable!

I don't care for the taste of a dish when they overwhelm it with cilantro. A little goes a long way. My husband, on the other hand, complains that it tastes like soap, and when we eat Mexican food, he asks they not put any cilantro in his food. One of the times we were out eating Mexican food, and Dh requested no cilantro, the waiter mentioned that a lot of people say it tastes like soap to them. I googled it. Approx. 50% of the population does not like cilantro, because it tastes like soap to them. I was surprised.

I love cilantro, feel sorry for those that come back with a soap taste.

Lost another hen today. Found her dead as a rock in the coop. Looks like she fell off the perch...the end. This one is another don't know what happened. She looked healthy. No egg bound up, keel bone muscle good, by all indications one of my resistant girls.

Does Marek's cause them to just drop?? I did necropsies on 2 birds that dropped (fortunately do not have Marek's in my flock) and both had blown livers. I wish I had looked down at that end of Betty, I was trying to see if there was something in her crop that was blocking it. She also had sour crop. Would have been nice to see what a liver SHOULD look like in a chicken. The result of fatty liver disease is a massive blood clot in their abdomen. No idea why/how they got it. Neither were old birds but I think they go fast so no suffering. Betty dragged on for a couple of days, I was going to euthanize her but she died in my hands not long after I drained her crop the last time. Didn't need to cut into that

Sorry to hear about the aphids, penny. I'll send you a jar of the bleepin Japanese beetles that we have here. Not only are they sure death on aphids but they love human blood also!

Do you mean the Lady Bugs? The Jap beetles I know about eat roses like they're candy. and many other plants as well... They are very destructive.

Right, Japanese Beetles are not the "Asian beetles" that we also call ladybugs or lady beetles. And yes those reddish orange spotted Asian beetles were imported specifically to eat aphids. The ones we have up here don't stink or bite.

Japanese Beetles will decimate bean plants by eating all the leaves. They also eat rose leaves and flowers and raspberry leaves. Probably a lot more as well. They are a royal pain.