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[just me]

Yeah, Clem had killed a silkie the same way when she was a few months old. All it would take is one paw on a silkie from a big pup like her, and done. She was stiff when I found her, so it was hard to tell if something was broken, but she was right with Clem next to her bed inside the barn. Didn't take much to figure that one out, however - Clem was not out until my fiance got home, and this rooster was dead when she got there.

Losing a chicken is frustrating enough, and it's even worse when you can't figure out why so as to try to avoid another.

 

[aoxa]

Losing a chicken is frustrating enough, and it's even worse when you can't figure out why so as to try to avoid another.

Which is exactly why I want to narrow this down His hackles look flared. Like he was fighting when he died.

 

[delisha]

You will need to examine him. Could be he challenged your turkey.

 

[lalaland]

FF question:

You know I haven't been having any luck with FF. I did make another batch with less vinegar, but still no dice. So I am looking at the ingredients of the egg mash I use from the local mill:
Ground grain products (appears to be mostly corn, sometimes some oats)
plant protein products,
processed grain by products,
monocalicum phosphate and dicalcium phophate
salt
methionine hydroxy analog
choline chloried
maganous oxide
ferrous sulfate
zinc oxide
dried yeast fermentation soluble
zinc sulfate
selenium yeast
brewesrs dried yeast
vit a, d
manganese sulfate
copper sulfate
vit e
niacin
calcium, bioblavin, meadione sodium bisulfate (vit k)
pyridoxine hydrochloried,
vit b12
folic acid
thiamine monitrate
biiotin
ethylenediamine dihydroiode.

Geesh. They grind and mix it about 30 miles from me. It doesn't have rendered animal products...
Any thoughts?

 

[Miss Lydia]

One of these days I'm going to start talking to my appliances the way people talk to their cell phones (Apple's Siri, etc.) that you see on commercials. I'll ask the fridge, "Is there any cheese left?" or "Who ate the cookie dough?" or "How long since I cleaned you? Wait, don't answer that. I don't want to know."

 

[just me]

You will need to examine him. Could be he challenged your turkey.

I don't own turkeys, but a friend of mine who does said that her tom will try to mate her chicken hens sometimes???

ETA: Just throwing things out there.

 

[Leahs Mom]

aoxa, I don't mean to detract from your situation - and before I start writing, wanted to say how sorry I am for your loss.

Before I read your post, I was outside taking photos of what I came home to today. Thankfully my story hasn't turned out like yours - at least yet.

When I got home I went out to gather eggs - around noon today. As I was walking out there I see this:





You can see these are under the edge of the electric netting. I did kind-of pull some of the feathers toward the camera but when I first came out they were more concentrated right under the net.

So I'm thinking - great...something tried to reach under ...or a hawk...and I was imagining having to go hunting for a body. However when I went inside, they were all there but one of the BRs was in the nest. I waited for them both to get out of the nests and have been observing them but don't see anything obvious. If there weren't feathers on the ground I probably wouldn't have noticed anything - they are both behaving like normal. It looks possible that some tail feathers are missing from one of them.

Now, after having come in and read aoxa's post and the comments that folks have made about not seeing any blood or anything obvious, I'm thinking I should probably remove them from the roost tonight and see if I can get down to skin level and look for any signs of broken skin, etc. I guess it could be possible that she got too close to the netting - maybe sticking her head through?? And possibly got tangled up and thrashing around trying to get loose?

Not sure - anyone have any thoughts?

 

[mbmess2003]

Bulldogma......Great big kuddos on the blog! I am gonna follow your other blog; as well as, my son has Aspergers. Can totally relate to some of the things that you have gone through or are going through!

 

[Leahs Mom]

Also - a totally unrelated question. (Because I'm lazy and I don't want to wade through pages and pages to find this...)

Was the neem oil used to coat the roosts for lice/mite prevention?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Also - a totally unrelated question. (Because I'm lazy and I don't want to wade through pages and pages to find this...)

Was the neem oil used to coat the roosts for lice/mite prevention?

I can answer this one, Yes