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My brain focused in on that line when I read the article, because of the shell-less eggs when she was younger.

A friend checked because she had a bunch of chicks spontaneously die. She was quoted $200 and she had to send the chicks refrigerated. Not paying that. If another one dies I'll do a necropsy myself.

I don't eat meat very often, and there's not much in my diet that could go rancid. Usually rancidity is associated with high levels of fat that has been in a low or no oxygen environment, such as wrapping fat scraps in a plastic bag to throw them in the trash. Fatty meats, vegetable oils, etc...

Yeah. 16% protein, 2.5% fat, etc., etc.

She stopped laying shell-less eggs probably a month ago. I was getting an egg a day from her until the last week. I assumed she was stressed because of the new cockerels.

Scraps are what they get from the compost pile. The food is actually ground, not made into a pellet or crumble, I presume because it's cheaper to make that way. Other than that, I'll give them meal worms once in a while.

Interesting. I just went and did some research on that. She was just a little over six months old, but she did have a habit of laying shell-less eggs. There is calcium in their food and they also have free choice calcium in the run. They do free range, so definitely not a sedentary life, and no...

It's a prepared commercial feed I get from the co-op, and they free range.

A week or so ago. That's when I let the cockerels out of their bachelor pad. He was taken by a predator.

I didn't think of doing a necropsy before I buried her. My main concern was getting her away from the other chickens in case she had something contagious.

Just trying to figure out what happened. I have a mixed flock, cockerell and 7 (now 6) pullets. One was an RIR. Yesterday she was doing all the chicken things, this morning she was in a nesting box when I came out before I started work. No problems, she looked and acted normal. When I came out...