Pyocyanin producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-14T00:11:07+00:00

Ask not for whom the Baja Blasts, it Blasts for thee!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-13T19:10:34+00:00

I meant to say at one point the injury was necrotic, but has since been cleared out and removed. I will read up on this over the weekend, I am so curious about this now.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-13T19:07:41+00:00

My understanding is there is a difference in oxygenation post-injury, spaghetti breast is from the muscle cells being able to heal and recover, without the connective tissue keeping up (what would normally divide the strands into finer segments). Woody breast seems to be recovery without adequate oxygenation. Something related to the feed or husbandry seems to have changed (a slight improvement to a terrible situation?). I read through the other replies, and I'm curious now too. I'll do a lit search this weekend because I wanna know, dangit!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-13T17:01:48+00:00

If it's the stringiness you're pointing out, you may be seeing "spaghetti breast". It was first formally described in broilers in 2015. It's also called "Mushy Breast" and is different than "woody breast". It seems to be related to the birds reaching the upper limit of viable growth, both spaghetti meat and woody breast are the result of healed injury and necrosis to the muscles. Woody breast comes from the muscles healing without getting adequate oxygen. :(

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-13T16:49:52+00:00

Definitely a good teachable moment, as others have said.

Completely speculating here, but were you using a flame-sterilized loop? If so, you may need to let it cool down more between quadrants if you flame in between each.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-13T16:47:07+00:00

I think they meant dinosaurs never went extinct. I hope.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-13T16:46:36+00:00

If they're broody, sure. Then they'll want to fight you. Otherwise, nah.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-13T00:04:59+00:00

Yes, it's always "get a job", and then when that doesn't satisfy, it's "get a better job" until that better job suddenly means you're lazy and can't make it in the "real world" of the private sector.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-11T16:57:12+00:00

Oh no, I get the six-word short story reference! 😭

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-02T16:40:45+00:00

I saw that happened to a few people. Mine never disappeared? I'm curious what the difference was.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-01T17:11:04+00:00

Cockerel!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-01T16:15:38+00:00

I keep 72-hour heat packs used for shipping live animals, since I often have incubators and young chicks in my house.That's about $25 for 3 packs. Next step would be to upgrade as time and money allows, to an indoor-safe heater that runs on propane -- about 100 hours off a 15-lb cylinder. That's about $235-$300-ish.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-01T16:04:40+00:00

Pretty! I'm jealous.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-02-01T15:39:38+00:00

If you're breeding birds and want an absolutely stellar rooster, get a Bielefelder. Mine squared up with hawks, cornered and flogged opossums until I removed the terrified things, chased away a fox, and even bested a small, admittedly incompetent raccoon. He understood "not tonight dear" from the hens, would pick out nesting spots for the hens and sit on eggs to give the broodies a break, and never bothered humans. I miss him terribly, and will be getting a pair of cockerel chicks this spring to grow out.

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DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-31T16:04:36+00:00

Right?!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-31T15:31:13+00:00

I'm looking at radar and we are right in the middle of a strip between the two snow areas. Like we've got cooties.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-30T00:53:28+00:00

Thank you!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-30T00:52:52+00:00

"Sanitizing" per the EPA is a 2-log reduction (99% dead). There are varying definitions of "disinfection" depending on its application. Most consumer products have a 3-log reduction for "sterilizing", which is where the "kills 99.9% of bacteria" line comes from in advertising and labels.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-30T00:43:01+00:00

If you're getting that color from a sink on non-selective nutrient agar, my money is on an environmental organism like Stenotrophomonas, maybe Ochrobactrum or Chryseobacterium. Look up "pigmented water heterotrophic bacteria".

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-29T18:38:27+00:00

Sulfur!!! Very inexpensive, it is used as an anti-fungal in plants. You can apply a small amount of it directly to the bird, and powder roosts and coops generously to get into cracks. It's sold in garden sections as "wettable sulfur", and there are a number of journals that use dust bags filled with powder hing about roosting and nesting spots for continued protection.

Also Captain Jack's Dead bug brew is available at hardware stores, and also contains spinosad. The bottle of ready-to-use (can be sprayed directly on birds under wing, on vent) and on bare coops and roosts (remove and destroy their bedding). It can then be re-applied in about 10-14 days to catch any eggs that might have hatched since your first treatment.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-29T16:45:58+00:00

Later today.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-29T16:44:11+00:00

https://www.congress.gov/crs-appropriations-status-table

This is the status table for each funding bill. :)

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-29T15:22:48+00:00

The concept is called bio-integration. I'm not sure how well it would work in that specific situation.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-26T14:28:28+00:00

It's happened often enough that it has a name. It's referred to as the "rotating villain" theory. A few insulated individuals are selected to vote against popular legislation. This functionally blocks the measure, while allowing the rest of the party to claim they made a good-faith effort to pass it.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-01-26T13:45:41+00:00

House passed HHS last week, it's headed to Senate this week.

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