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That is just too cute. That woman is a saint. I wouldn't be so understanding of something eating my house, LOL.

Glad you found your hen @beercan, gladder that she is sitting on a pile of eggs for you! So are you going to let her do the deed? She looks pretty determined.

Sadly, I had to put one of my favorite big hens down last night. A speckled Sussex who was just the sweetest thing. She had a bad crop and had had it since she was about 5 months old. Looking back it was probably due to the Marek's. I would periodically have to pop dulcolax down her and massage the mass down I could never get it to completely dissolve though but it would be a size where it wouldn't cause her any discomfort. The last time I decided that was it. The next time I would just put her down and in the mean time let her have quality life.

Speckles was always the first to hop down from the coop and come up to me for a bite of bread. Last night when I went to lock up I found her in the nesting box just standing there with one of the roosters in attendance. When I picked her up she was just skin and bones and when I checked her crop it was as big as a grapefruit and as hard as a rock. She acted like it was painful when I checked it and I thought I felt another 'lump' in with the main mass. I am pretty sure she had tumors in her crop but there was no way any food was moving out of there. She was now slowly starving to death. I made the decision then and there to put her down before it burst or caused her any more pain.

God I hate Marek's. I really need to cull all the big birds that aren't thriving. It's getting to be almost more than I can handle loosing one at a time. Speckles is number 6 this summer out of the big bird coop. Meanwhile thank God! my bantams are thriving.
 
Justin Beaver... great! Sweet video, further proof that wild animals do NOT belong living as pets indoors. The destruction they do is tremendous. I've never felt a beaver's pelt, the only ones I've ever seen were adults, in the wild, and quite mean if bothered, or quite scared and disappear when they know you're watching. Maybe she should skin it and sell the pelt. there used to be a huge market for them. Cute though... very cute. :)

Once again Micro, so sorry that you've been blessed with mareks... Having read what you've gone through, I would only wish that on my worst chicken loving enemy :oops: JK... no, really... JK ;)
 
microchick said:
That is just too cute. That woman is a saint. I wouldn't be so understanding of something eating my house, LOL.

Glad you found your hen @beercan, gladder that she is sitting on a pile of eggs for you! So are you going to let her do the deed? She looks pretty determined.

Sadly, I had to put one of my favorite big hens down last night. A speckled Sussex who was just the sweetest thing. She had a bad crop and had had it since she was about 5 months old. Looking back it was probably due to the Marek's. I would periodically have to pop dulcolax down her and massage the mass down I could never get it to completely dissolve though but it would be a size where it wouldn't cause her any discomfort. The last time I decided that was it. The next time I would just put her down and in the mean time let her have quality life.

Speckles was always the first to hop down from the coop and come up to me for a bite of bread. Last night when I went to lock up I found her in the nesting box just standing there with one of the roosters in attendance. When I picked her up she was just skin and bones and when I checked her crop it was as big as a grapefruit and as hard as a rock. She acted like it was painful when I checked it and I thought I felt another 'lump' in with the main mass. I am pretty sure she had tumors in her crop but there was no way any food was moving out of there. She was now slowly starving to death. I made the decision then and there to put her down before it burst or caused her any more pain.

God I hate Marek's. I really need to cull all the big birds that aren't thriving. It's getting to be almost more than I can handle loosing one at a time. Speckles is number 6 this summer out of the big bird coop. Meanwhile thank God! my bantams are thriving.
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Hugs! It is so hard to deal with.
 

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