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katiedarling said:
Hope everyone had a happy Easter! Stanley's big scab is covered with the blu-kote again and I kept them separated for the day again and so we start over. LOL No pecking at the scab and I'll be going to check out the stuff at TSC tomorrow.
Now, I noticed this orange stuff all over the ground the last couple of days, from the rain. It looked like someone dumped diced carrots in the chicken yard overnight. Weird. So, I tried to scoop out most of it, but it was impossible to get rid of it all. I know the birds were pecking at it so I'm sure they all ate some. Most of all, Big ol Stanley. He had himself a feast on it. And, again it happened last night. This morning, I notice the stuff is ALL OVER the Eastern Red Cedar Trees that are right next to their yard. Globs up the trunk, in the branches, needles. Never seen it before, seems like it showed up overnight. So,I googled. This is what it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnosporangium_juniperi-virginianae

Cedar Apple Rust. A gross looking fungal disease. And apparently, the orange goopy carrot crud, is the spores dropping.
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It's on at least 7 of the trees on that side of the property. Can't seem to find anything that tells whether it's poisonous, but it's a fungus, so this can't be good. Right?

None of the DH's chain saws work at the moment, but I'll be calling his ex-partner tomorrow to see if he can bring his over this week and help take the tree down. It needed to go anyway. In the meantime, has ANYONE ever seen this freaky stuff before? Know how to eradicate it or if it's a threat to the birds or not? My assumption is unless it's a mushroom, no living thing needs to be eating this fungus.
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this is the last sentence of the refered post Application of fungicides to the junipers before and while they are in the infectious orange gelatinous state seems to reduce the severity of the outbreak.
 
katsdar said:
this is the last sentence of the refered post Application of fungicides to the junipers before and while they are in the infectious orange gelatinous state seems to reduce the severity of the outbreak.
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Yes, I did see that. I'm just wondering what the repercussions might be from them eating it? I know for a fact our soil out here is crap
& we need to spray a fungicide in general. Guess I'll be getting some peck no more AND some fungicide! LOL
 
y'all check out this weird egg, nothing that compares with some of them flower's been getting lately, but still weird.

Its from my OE, she's been laying every other day, but laid both saturday and sunday. This is sundays egg. Only her 4th egg total, so I realize that's probably the 'why' of it. It almost looks like the shell was a bit soft on one side and took on the imprint of the hay in the nest. It's also flat on that side, thinking I'll have it for lunch....



 
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LacesOutMarino said:
I had the chickens out in the yard today and noticed one had popped and it looked like there was blood in the poop, do I need to be concerned?
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No chickens shed the lining of their intestines and it will look like that, perfectly normal. some even mistake it for a worm 
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If NO chickens do it, how is it normal?
 

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