Re: Doris

From: w.g.s.hamm (_at_talktalk.net)
Date: 03/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:29:37 -0000

"nuele mersch" <fowls@nuele-online.de> wrote in message
news:1gtdi8c.1aqznp81ivoq58N%fowls@nuele-online.de...
> w.g.s.hamm <fenlandfowl@talktalk.net> wrote:
>
> > "Rose" <servicelady@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:LOuYd.206461$0u.159876@fed1read04...
> > > Could she have a broken egg inside? Lubricate your finger with
antibiotic
> > > ointment, no fingernail, and go up in side and see if you find any
shell
> > > leftovers. If it sits in there it will rot and cause infection. Be
> > > caureful with the egg shell shards.
> > > And not how HOT it is inside a chicken!
> > > It's interesting. They won't like it but it won't hhurt them and you
> > could
> > > save them a lot of grief.
> >
> > I beg to differ. If an egg has broken inside the bird will already be
on
> > it's way down from shock and peritonitis.
>
>
> Well, Molly, as Rose posted her answer a week after the original
> question you might be right with the peritonitis by now...
>
> However, a freshly broken egg does not always mean the bird will die of
> peritonitis. I think it depends on where it broke - I have successfully
> removed such leftovers of a broken egg from inside my red Wyandotte
> bantie, who lived happily for another four years or so after. If you can
> really reach the shell bits, the bird's got a chance.
>
> Nuele (D)
 You are right Nuele. If it breaks just inside and you are lucky it won't
pierce anything and you may be able to pick it out. If you have to go poking
about inside though I feel this might be a hopeless case :0(
 I think more birds do not recover from a broken shell though.

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