Washingtonians

[jenreinke]

I ended up with 10 limes in my co-op fruit basket today. What do I do with them? I've never made anything with lime before.

Hmm... Let see limeade, keylime pie, mojitos, etc....

 

[Chickielady]

This description lends me to think of injury and not illness. Whjy? All your other birds are completely healthy. When ever one of my chickens is eating something, others instantly go see what that is and try to steal it. So to me, if one of my birds got into some type of poison, others would have as well. It is only injuries that are limited to one bird.

Just my opinion.

I agree.
We also forget sometimes that chickens, just like any animal, can have internal issues as well.
Like a fatty liver issue, or blood problems, just like humans have diabetes, liver diseases, tumours & the like.
Chickens can have genetic or rather, be "Born" with physical internal anomolies we cannot see.
Take Cornish X for a good example...onward they grow perfectly healthy and then one day they just up & die, one by one.
Why ?
Their hearst & lungs (Pulmonary system) cannot keep up with supplying their mass with oxygen...and they drop dead.
So this other bird may have had such an issue as well.
Pulmonary systems can be bad, a hole in the heart for example, or damaged lungs...all sorts of issues.

 

[Chickielady]

We've had a few chickens in the past come down with a mystery illness that is always fatal. Their neck starts to twist and curl back and they can't walk. Eating and drinking are very difficult and become impossible after two days or so. They're just so out of it and lethargic, and not just because of inadequate food. Does anyone know what this could be?

Marek's Disease is my guess.

 

[Chickielady]

Hi folks.... I have been doing some research for my next additions to my chicken family... See the dark brown eggs below and the olive green ones.. I would like some girls that lay those colors I was told to look for Olive Eggers.... So I did a search and found that can mean several things That French Black Marans lay the dark brown eggs?? I think I have it right... I researched those 2 types of birds and I was wondering if any one has any or knows someone that might have or want to sell some????

Zgoatlady has nice Black Copper Marans, but any Marans will give you an olive egg if bred to an Ameraucana, not an EE, but a true pure bred Ameraucana.
The resulting chick will grow up to lay olive eggs.

 

[Chickielady]

My Marans laid gorgeous dark brown eggs (sometimes with speckles, so pretty!) and my Wheaten Ameracauna lays the bluest eggs I've ever seen. Both of those birds came from fellow BYCer Illia. Perhaps she has more Marans.

If you breed your marans to your Ameraucana, hatch the resulting egg.
For example, make up a breeding pen, smallish is fine for just a few birds.
Put in either a Marans Cock & Am hens or Am cock & Marans hens.
Waite a week or 2, then check fertility & hatch them= you'll get Olive Eggers.

 

[Chickielady]

What a cool idea!!!

Jeanine did that at the March Poultry Show, a St Patty's Day basket with mugs, mint hot chocolate stuff.
I did one with a window-box planter, bag of dry moss, all sorts of garden seeds, trowels, all wrapped up for the raffle.
Love making baskets like that !

 

[Chickielady]

If you breed your marans to your Ameraucana, hatch the resulting egg.
For example, make up a breeding pen, smallish is fine for just a few birds.
Put in either a Marans Cock & Am hens or Am cock & Marans hens.
Waite a week or 2, then check fertility & hatch them= you'll get Olive Eggers.

Quoting myself here to add:
OR you can sell the resulting eggs to whomever wants to hatch OEs.

(Such as JNB)

 

[Chickielady]

Well Shyla & DH just left, she has the most adorable young man...little boy is a doll !
BIG blue eyes and is so flirty.....

She got more pullets from me and the Partridge Cochin cockerel.

Now I am making my GF bread.....and gonna start working on this painting I keep saying I am gonna finish, and keep getting distracted.

CR you are welcome to this epi pen...........expires in 12/2012 but I get 3 more before that so will give ya another fresh one.
I do not think it wise to carry around an expired one, may not work!

I would mail one to you but got no transportation...and cannot walk far either.
I am out of some of my meds (2 days ago) and cannot get to town to get them....................so cannot help get the epi pen to ya.

DH is very busy fixing all sorts of stuff on our house in CA, from faucets to oven knob, to holes, screws in sheet rock & then have to paint & fix the 4" gash in the bamboo flooring we found out the jerk shot off a pistol in the house & it hit the floor.......crapola !!!
What an idiot.
Then he used auto paint to paint a bunch of stuff in the art studio & got paint all over the shelves & linoleum................jerk !!!!
The list is endless...it is gonna be a long while til DH gets back here !

 

[TerrorBird]

Quote: Thing is, it's happened in hatchery birds that were vaccinated for Marek's and only one bird gets it at a time! It's true that I haven't seen a bird that has a confirmed case of Marek's, so I can't say that it's not. It hasn't happened in a very long time (knock on wood), but I think that if it happens again I should have a necropsy done.

 

[Chickielady]

Thing is, it's happened in hatchery birds that were vaccinated for Marek's and only one bird gets it at a time! It's true that I haven't seen a bird that has a confirmed case of Marek's, so I can't say that it's not. It hasn't happened in a very long time (knock on wood), but I think that if it happens again I should have a necropsy done.

If they were vaccinated, then it would not be Marek's.

Bookmark this site, and way down toward the bottom of the page you see charts that compare symptoms. This is by no means ALL the diseases poultry can have, but covers quite a few:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044