Thank you so much for your thoughts. I know it wasn’t pasty butt. I am thinking respiratory failure makes sense. Before she died she was breathing so heavily and then at the end she was struggling to breathe but then suddenly chirped loudly and seemed to have a seizure before just collapsing...
We were 4 days into raising baby chicks yesterday and my husband noticed that one was lethargic and had very labored breathing in the brooder. She had seemed healthy that morning - running about with the other chicks, playing, eating and drinking normally.
When he told me that she seemed to...