- Jun 12, 2014
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Hey,
This afternoon when I went to let my chickens out I noticed that my hen Sunny was not with the flock. I figured she was laying an egg, as always. But when she didn't come out after a long time, I went inside the coop to check on her, she was laying in the nesting box, dead. I think she had been dead a while, because it smelled TERRIBLE and there were ants in the nest box with her. Her neck was broken, and the feathers on her neck were almost all the way picked off. There were no cuts and nothing had been eating her. So.... have any idea what killed my hen? I will add that there is a long pole that stretches across the rows of nesting boxes, attatching them together. My pullets and cockerels roost there at night. She could of tried to flap up there and broken her neck? Or a snake? I'm not sure if I should of let my chickens sleep in that coop tonight.... hope there is not any snakes in there! ): There was only one egg in the nest box, and it was not cracked or broken.
Thanks.
Ilovefarming
This afternoon when I went to let my chickens out I noticed that my hen Sunny was not with the flock. I figured she was laying an egg, as always. But when she didn't come out after a long time, I went inside the coop to check on her, she was laying in the nesting box, dead. I think she had been dead a while, because it smelled TERRIBLE and there were ants in the nest box with her. Her neck was broken, and the feathers on her neck were almost all the way picked off. There were no cuts and nothing had been eating her. So.... have any idea what killed my hen? I will add that there is a long pole that stretches across the rows of nesting boxes, attatching them together. My pullets and cockerels roost there at night. She could of tried to flap up there and broken her neck? Or a snake? I'm not sure if I should of let my chickens sleep in that coop tonight.... hope there is not any snakes in there! ): There was only one egg in the nest box, and it was not cracked or broken.
Thanks.
Ilovefarming