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Chicken enthusiast was right- it was mold! Our cows had knocked over a grain bin and it was full of older moldy grain. The chickens must of gotten into it! We lost around 10 chickens but haven’t lost one since we cleaned up the grain. Our vet came out and we did a basic necropsy and found tons...

Thank you! We have the vet coming tomorrow to see- she can do a basic look and if she can’t figure it out we’ll mail out a bird to the state. Ugh, I hate this!

It was high 90s the first day and then low the next. We get into the low 50s at night though (co mountains). Today we lost 2 more. I think it’s disease:( I’m so sad. The vets coming out tomorrow.

Their droppings look pretty normal from what I can see. They roam around a lot. We’re deep cleaning the coops today and then we’re going to keep them in for a few days and closely monitor them.

We didn’t notice anything unusual before hand. I’ll look into sending one off. We’ve been doing this for 5 years now and have never experienced anything like it.

Hi everyone, I’m a new poster but often come here for information and have fund many posts helpful. Between the last 3 days we’ve had 7 chickens suddenly drop dead. 4 were found on their back and 3 looked like they just fell off their purches. We can’t for the life of us figure out what’s going...