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    Growing my little flock

    Spring had better start giving now. It had also better actually start being springly weather…cause I did not enjoy running around in freezing rain today trying to collect hatching eggs fresh from the warm butts since its stupid degrees of cold again. These are bean eggs which have abysmal...
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    Growing my little flock

    She was 2 years and 9 months I think. I figure making it to almost 3 is pretty good for a hen whose problems started just after the first year.
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    Growing my little flock

    Another sad post warning...spring is being the season of giving and taking away again. I burried Raven today. Unlike with Joker, I expected this death. Raven was one of only two from my "olive egger" cohort that actually did lay green eggs. She had never-ending health issues for a long time...
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    Bleeding out on hatching

    I feel like it must be a freak accident then, whether from some unfortunate interaction between hatching chicks causing something to get cut or even just something being not quite right with the one that failed.
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    Bleeding out on hatching

    Were there any others hatching out at the same time? I had one batch last year where the first hatching chick very literally came out kicking and actually did some damage to his neighbors who weren't all the way out yet.
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    Ascites fluid still draining hours after needle removed

    The seeming presence of a roughly 2 year "expiration date" for so many hens continues to hard for me to accept despite having been through a number of other losses due to reproductive disorders, and despite this hen's series of bizarre problems starting to unfold after just a year. I think...
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    Ascites fluid still draining hours after needle removed

    Sadly she is declining. After a few days of poos improving, a bit more leg movement, and abdominal redness going away, she is now tired, sleeping most of the time, losing interest in food, and mostly only drinking by pipette. Her poop this morning had a bit of yolk material in it. When I was...
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    Ascites fluid still draining hours after needle removed

    I also saw singificantly more wiggle and distress with the 20ga needle. That's probably what faked me out thinking the flow was stopping and probalby also why that puncture bruised so badly. I think it was the viscocity of the fluid that made the 20ga go so poorly in my case at least compared to...
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    Ascites fluid still draining hours after needle removed

    She's still in rough shape, but at least the 18ga puncture sealed up solidly within 12h (it did intermittenly leak if she wiggled a lot but was definitely trying to seal up after just a couple hours). I think it hurts a lot to try to use the muscles on her abdomen and inner upper leg. Putting...
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    Skipped molts - trying to figure out why

    Sadly I think I was too optimistic in my last post. Hobbit had what seemed to be a more mild reoccurrence of the ovarian cyst problem. More swelling for a while and more weird tissue expelled in tiny eggs. She bounced back but has definitely had ups and downs. She also developed pendulous crop...
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    Ascites fluid still draining hours after needle removed

    One of my hens developed ascites / water belly. I attempted to drain with a 20 gauge needle today. The needle only barely needed to go in and fluid dripped out at a rate of 1-2 drops per second. This lasted for about 2min and then it seemed to stop, but I clearly misjudged the degree of...
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    Growing my little flock

    This big fluffy man, his ladies love him so much. They fawn over him. But I feel like I will be lucky to get another fertile egg from his flock! I don't know if it's just the never-ending winter...maybe I'm just hoping for fertile eggs too soon after such a long and nasty cold season. Mr Vanilla...
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    Growing my little flock

    Sad and kind of grizzly post warning... I lost Joker last week, Thursday the 5th. About 3 weeks prior she seemed very slightly off, so I brought her in, and out of nowhere she started projectile vomiting fluid with blood in it. After a few panicked hours, she turned out to have the avian...
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    Foot ailment

    Have you looked at the bottom of the foot? If it's bumblefoot, there will usually be a big crusty black scab on the bottom of the inflamed area. Sometimes the webbing can also get packed with rocks/mud and get stretched and swell a bit without being infected, to me this does look more...
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    Hardware Cloth - How Far Up Run and Run Floor?

    Unfortunately if you have them digging tunnels regularly under big pavers already, then I would think they will dig under horizontal HWC eventually too. I've never had to deal with rats in my enclosures, but just the other day found a mouse burrow going into an enclosure that went under a...
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