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    6 chickens dropped dead overnight, autopsy finds nothing!

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    6 chickens dropped dead overnight, autopsy finds nothing!

    thank you, the botulism sounds like it really could be a possibility, it is rainy season, there is lots of stagnant water around, an thinking about it a couple of baby chicks died and I did not find their bodies (our garden is very big) so that is a possibility, and there could be other dead...
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    6 chickens dropped dead overnight, autopsy finds nothing!

    no it's definately not the water, we have borehole water no chance of it being that.
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    6 chickens dropped dead overnight, autopsy finds nothing!

    yes we do have those in our flock, but these were birds that had recovered from that years ago, and autopsy and lab results showed no signs of any current disease, just very healthy chickens that died very suddenly : (
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    6 chickens dropped dead overnight, autopsy finds nothing!

    I'll phone back tomorrow and find out exactly what lab tests they did run.
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    6 chickens dropped dead overnight, autopsy finds nothing!

    there is compost that the chickens have access to, what are the dangers of compost?
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    6 chickens dropped dead overnight, autopsy finds nothing!

    Thanks for your responses! I am wracking my brain as to what could have changed or anything new, I still have about 12 chickens plus about 16 chicks left, they all sleep in the same chicken house, which is a wooden shed, the door is left open at night and it is very well ventilated, there are no...
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    6 chickens dropped dead overnight, autopsy finds nothing!

    Six of my chickens dropped dead last night. Literally just fell off the perch. Different ages, breeds even, one was the highest ranking rooster and one was a baby about a month old. I took them all to the vet for lab tests and autopsy. He could not find anything , no sign of disease, he said...
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    My chicks are dying how do I identify the disease or cause

    I have two hens who have had two clutches of chicks about 2 weeks apart. The first clutch all the chicks (5) were fine for about 3 weeks, then the second clutch hatched and one of new chicks died on the second night, I then scrutinized all the chicks and noticed that two chicks, one from the...
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    what age do mums usually leave their chicks

    Hi got 12 lovely little chicks they are now only 6 weeks old and the mum has left them already, it seems a bit soon they are still so small ? What age do mums usually leave their chicks?
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    Broody Goose seems to spend a lot of time off her eggs help

    Not quite, right hemisphere though I'm in south africa! Yes I don't think I'm going to try and look they have gone quite rabid since they laid their eggs! Think I'll just let them be. Thanks for the tips.
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    Broody Goose seems to spend a lot of time off her eggs help

    Hi no it is spring here, so not too cold, I'm not sure what she was up to but maybe as you say she was not setting the eggs, just looking after them, I didn't know they could do that, and was worried that they would start developing, and then die, now she is sitting full time on them, how long...
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    Broody Goose seems to spend a lot of time off her eggs help

    Hi My goose has laid about 7 eggs over the past month, a few times during the last week I thought she had started sitting on the as she would go to sit on them at night so I locked her up with them for the night as its not safe to leave her out in the open (she has laid them in a converted dogs...
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    ducklings being hatched by hen

    Good news is that you can raise ducklings with chickens under the same hen (although remember the egg incubation time is different!) They all hatched together (I had timed the duck eggs and moved them from one bantam to another so they were due to hatch at the same time) and the ducklings and...
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    Chicken left her eggs to get cold !

    Good news is the eggs were fine and have started hatching! 4 bantams chickies, two ducklings and one chicken...!
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