My 1 1/2 year old Silkie hen died a bizarre death right in front of me this evening.
For about the past week she hasn’t left the coop, and has been all bunched up with her head held in tight to her body. I assumed it was because of the snow storms we’ve been having… but tonight I brought her into the house and put her in our hen cage for sick or injured hens, hoping that would make her feel better. I had fresh food and water in there for her, and I went to the store and bought epson salt hoping a warm bath would help if she was egg bound.
All of a sudden, about 90 minutes after I brought her in, when I was standing right by her cage, she squawked so loud and started thrashing around the cage. Immediately I opened the cage and put my hand on her to comfort her; she fell over right then with blood coming out of her mouth and died.
Does anyone know what happened to her?? It was quite traumatic and I feel awful it was her end of life.
For about the past week she hasn’t left the coop, and has been all bunched up with her head held in tight to her body. I assumed it was because of the snow storms we’ve been having… but tonight I brought her into the house and put her in our hen cage for sick or injured hens, hoping that would make her feel better. I had fresh food and water in there for her, and I went to the store and bought epson salt hoping a warm bath would help if she was egg bound.
All of a sudden, about 90 minutes after I brought her in, when I was standing right by her cage, she squawked so loud and started thrashing around the cage. Immediately I opened the cage and put my hand on her to comfort her; she fell over right then with blood coming out of her mouth and died.
Does anyone know what happened to her?? It was quite traumatic and I feel awful it was her end of life.