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Chickens and new concrete
05/01/03 01:54 PM
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We're doing some renovations on our house that will entail three pours of concrete. We won't use the minimum amount you have to purchase each time, so with the extra, we decided to pour the slab for what will be our new storage building for our larger tractor, hay baler and manure spreader.
Well after we smoothed out the slab, we noticed a set of chicken tracks going across it. At first I thought it was pretty funny, and even appropriate, although my carpenter buddy was upset, because he wanted the slab perfect. But about an hour later, one of my chickens was lying on the ground near the slab, dead. I checked her body out. No injuries, no sign of disease, not a mark on her.
Could she be the one who walked across the wet slab, and abosrbed some kind of chemicals from the concrete through her feet? There wasn't a mark on her feet, but it seems quite a coincidence that one chicken would suddenly turn up dead. We've had the chickens for two years, and we've only lost some to some local dogs. We've never had one keel over like this. I think it's gotta be conected to the cement.
What do you guys and gals think?
Rich
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Re: Chickens and new concrete
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05/01/03 02:36 PM
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Could it have eaten a stray chunk?
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Re: Chickens and new concrete
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05/01/03 02:39 PM
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Maybe.
Would that have killed her?
Rich
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Re: Chickens and new concrete
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05/01/03 02:55 PM
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very caustic stuff, ph 12 or so, could be deadly if ingested I reckon
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Re: Chickens and new concrete
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05/01/03 03:02 PM
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A friend's sheep died last week after getting into a bag of premix. Didn't take more than 3 or 4 hours. I doubt it would be that long for a chicken.
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Re: Chickens and new concrete
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05/01/03 03:02 PM
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It doesn't seem like just walking through it would do it, but I don't have a lot of real world experience with this. My guess would also be that she ate some, or in trying to clean off her feet, managed to get some up her breathing hole.
None of the birds has acted sick? All are laying okay?
Steve
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I'm guessing now that she most have consumed some. All the other chickens are fine and happy and laying like crazy. They miss their friend, though!!! 
Rich
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All are laying okay?
The eggs are very heavy and hard as rocks.... 
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Re: Chickens and new concrete
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05/19/03 06:49 PM
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could you "carpenter buddy" have exacted his revenge? 
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Re: Chickens and new concrete
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05/20/03 07:37 AM
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Nope, he's my buddy and he loves our critters, including the chickens!! He got very upset that one died from "concrete poisoning".
Rich
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