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[Rare Feathers Farm]

Hey everyone--off to work....it's almost Friday! Yay!

 

[Ogress]

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Have a nice day! I'm off to see the principal before I go to work.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Cool.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Okay, has anyone ever dealt with an egg bound hen? She has a "swelling" at the South end of her abdomen, palpable. I have watched a couple of You tubes, including one from a vet. I have put some KY jelly in/on her clocea (sp?) She is alert, she is checking out my dogs in the house. I have her in the house to watch. I tried to manipulate the softness further south in her system (done via the way the vet showed). She is right now doing the egg song - but no egg. Okay, she just hopped out of the rub I had her in and gave one of the biggest poops I have ever seen. I palpated again, and I still feel something there. I think I will put her in the little girl pen and tonight, if the swelling is still there, I will bathe her, how I have seen and read about.

Could she be "constipated" because of all the grazing?

Right now she looks like she is "pushing", feathers around the clocea are opening and closing. , okay, another egg song...let's see what happens.
She is lose in my bedroom right now (how pathetic am I?) Okay, nothing. Alright, I am giving another shot of KY jelly and putting her in the little girl pen.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Here is a vid I took when our Blue Orpington that was egg bound

She would only lay eggs every 7 to 16 days. after about 3 months she pass, I think she got stuck and could not backup. When I opened her up the bloat stuff looked like clear jelly or egg white but it was attached to meat and skin she also had an egg in her egg tube shoot. My son kept putting her eggs in the incubator and only one was fertile.

Hope your hen gets better.

 

[Illia]

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They like to claim that, but really, how do they regulate that? There are HUNDREDS of varieties of corn out there that are GMO, not just the yellow dent stuff, and the only way to find out is by testing about 5 lbs of a sample, which usually takes $200-300. Even if your corn seems to have no ties with Monsanto or DuPont, trust me, GMO strains have been tainting corn for a long time now. . . Even corn grown hundreds of miles away from GMO crops. And then there's Soy too, as well as Bananas, (soon to be Cacao) Cotton, among several others.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Here is a vid I took when our Blue Orpington that was egg bound

She would only lay eggs every 7 to 16 days. after about 3 months she pass, I think she got stuck and could not backup. When I opened her up the bloat stuff looked like clear jelly or egg white but it was attached to meat and skin she also had an egg in her egg tube shoot. My son kept putting her eggs in the incubator and only one was fertile.

Hope your hen gets better.

Yep, that is how she is in her abdomen. She is not quite that bloated, but I can feel a mass and it is egg shaped. I have a feeling she got a bit dehydrated while in with the BR bitties. She is seperated and she has ate and drank quite a bit. I am going to see how she does and ask the vet today at work. I had extra food out for the new birds in case they were being chased, but I figured they had shots at the water....guess I was wrong. I am really gonna have to shake it up I guess to get them all to get along. Thank you very much. I will post how she is doing.

 

[Chickielady]

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I wasted my money on a "real" egg candler, the kind you have to buy spare lights for, they are like car tail light bulbs, and the thing plugs in & gets very hot fast...and I hate it, it limits my movements and it is not good at all, the best candler I have is a very powerful LED mini flashlight that has an adjustible "field" so you can turn it to a pin point, or the other way turn it and it has a broad firld.
It was way less money & on the counter at the hardware store.
Candle in a dark room, very dark, works great.

 

[ultasol]

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Try letting her sit in a warm bath.

 

[ultasol]

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A dual purpose breed is one that provides both meat & eggs.
So you have to decide which breed you want or meaties.
Meaties are the untimate fast meatiest....and in several weeks the mess is over, processed & in the freezer.
I think my favorite dual purpose breed is Buckeyes, they are broad & thick and resemble Cornish although they do not have cornish in their background. The also have reported from all over they are sweet tempered not a mean one anywhere.
But, read up & make your decision.
I am getting Cornish and will have the Cocks over both Buckeye & white rock hens, so those hens will lay a cornish cross meat egg I can hatch some whenever we run low on chicken in the freezer..can't get any fresher or cheaper than that.
I also dislike the nasty meaties hatcheries sell in that sit in their on poo & do nothing but eat and eat..I want a meaty that can free range, be leaner and have more flavor.

I dont want the brainless meat birds that hatcheries sell. I want all my birds to have a good quality of life, and more than one purpose...

Chanteclers