I have a flock of around 65 hens, a mix of whatever I could order as layers from TSC in Canada and some barnyard mixes. This spring will have been 5 years since I raised my first batch and some are so dear to my heart. Many were lap pets.
This fall I have lost 4 of some of my very favourites and one of them, Daisy, I even took to the vet over Christmas to try to see what was wrong exactly in a desperate and very expensive attempt to save her.
Daisy, had an xray done and they could identify a mass which they said was cancer but it wasn't I am realizing. (The vets here are not helpful at all.)
Today I did a post mortem (sorry, this is my first try at one, I was desperate to know what has been going on, sorry for the graphic pics :/) on Annabelle who died this evening and I could feel a huge mass inside in the same area my Daisy had hers. Neither felt like a stuck egg but rather firm. Annabelles only symptoms were purple comb and seemingly lower appetite. But her purple comb has been going on all fall. Daisy looked like she was egg bound about a week before she passed and was seemingly healthy leading up to then, though possibly had lost a bit of weight.
So after doing a post mortem on Annabelle I wanted to share with you all what was wrong with Annabelle and no doubt Daisy and possibly another of my old girls that seems fine now but I fear may not be in the coming months.
These 3 lash eggs were all in Amnabelle's oviduct in different parts of it. Is this caused by salpingitis? Or is this internal laying?
Daisy and Annabelle and the one I lost just weeks before unfortunately were all from a hatchery through TSC in Canada and were in the very same first batch.
I've seen a lash egg once or twice in the laying boxes but do they all get stuck? Why didn't they pass? Is there anything that can be done while they are alive to help these ladies?
I am so done with hatchery production hens
This fall I have lost 4 of some of my very favourites and one of them, Daisy, I even took to the vet over Christmas to try to see what was wrong exactly in a desperate and very expensive attempt to save her.
Daisy, had an xray done and they could identify a mass which they said was cancer but it wasn't I am realizing. (The vets here are not helpful at all.)
Today I did a post mortem (sorry, this is my first try at one, I was desperate to know what has been going on, sorry for the graphic pics :/) on Annabelle who died this evening and I could feel a huge mass inside in the same area my Daisy had hers. Neither felt like a stuck egg but rather firm. Annabelles only symptoms were purple comb and seemingly lower appetite. But her purple comb has been going on all fall. Daisy looked like she was egg bound about a week before she passed and was seemingly healthy leading up to then, though possibly had lost a bit of weight.
So after doing a post mortem on Annabelle I wanted to share with you all what was wrong with Annabelle and no doubt Daisy and possibly another of my old girls that seems fine now but I fear may not be in the coming months.
These 3 lash eggs were all in Amnabelle's oviduct in different parts of it. Is this caused by salpingitis? Or is this internal laying?
Daisy and Annabelle and the one I lost just weeks before unfortunately were all from a hatchery through TSC in Canada and were in the very same first batch.
I've seen a lash egg once or twice in the laying boxes but do they all get stuck? Why didn't they pass? Is there anything that can be done while they are alive to help these ladies?
I am so done with hatchery production hens
Thank you for sharing, I'm still learning & want to know what to watch for with my girls.
