Mary-Jane
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The Grim Reaper visits the Horgan-Webb clanDead lamb over the weekend. No apparent reason... 
Dead chook in hen house this morning. Another one very poorly and in isolation in the polytunnel. Prolly be dead when I get home.
Thought I'd do my impersonation of Amanda Burton in 'Silent Witness' on the chooks when I get home tonight. What obvious signs should I look for?
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Fee
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Can't help, but sorry to hear that 
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Mary-Jane
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| Fee wrote: | | Can't help, but sorry to hear that |
I was saying to a friend (ex-smallholder) this morning that 2 years ago I would have cried for 4 days and fretted for a month. Now I shrug and say "That's a shame."
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Treacodactyl
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When I performed a post mortem on Treacle when she died I followed the instructions printed in "Country Smallholding". Basically you're looking for anything abnormal although as I'd not prepped a chicken before I wasn't that sure what was abnormal.  With Treacle there was far too much fat in her system and too many part formed yolks so it looked like egg peritonitis or heart failure.
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hedgewitch
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Re: The Grim Reaper visits the Horgan-Webb clan | Mary-Jane wrote: | | Thought I'd do my impersonation of Amanda Burton in 'Silent Witness' on the chooks when I get home tonight. |
How is looking into the middle distance in a drippy way until the love interest for this week turns up going to help? 
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Nick
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Will you have a most unconvincing cod Oirish accent, too, please?
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Mary-Jane
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Well I can see that you're not going to take my new career as a pathologist seriously...
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hedgewitch
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| Mary-Jane wrote: | | Well I can see that you're not going to take my new career as a pathologist seriously... |
I went to a conference recently and there was a conference for pathologists on at the same time. I mistakenly tried to register at the wrong conference, but the girl at the registration desk immediately queried whether I really was at the right conference.  I didn't actually want to go, you understand, but I was a little offended to be recognised so quickly as not being a pathologist. 
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Mary-Jane
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| hedgewitch wrote: | | ...I was a little offended to be recognised so quickly as not being a pathologist. |
Are you sure you're not just more worried that you look like a Librarian-Teccie?
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hedgewitch
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| Mary-Jane wrote: | | hedgewitch wrote: | | ...I was a little offended to be recognised so quickly as not being a pathologist. |
Are you sure you're not just more worried that you look like a Librarian-Teccie? |
 I put a lot of work into trying not to look like that (see the hairdresser thread ) I even hung up my Birkenstocks in favour of pointy boots for that conference.
Maybe it was the morris-dancing, real-ale buff colleague I had at my side that gave me away? The fact he was wearing an 'amusing' Web 2.0 t-shirt probably didn't help either...
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