No not any recognisable symptoms from my other hens...?
My Orpington just went down all of a sudden... she seemed healthy enough and then on the morning she was lying on the grass and I picked her up and put her in her coop - she even laid an egg and then by the afternoon she came out of her...
I have a Barnevelder Hen (whom we purchased from a Breeder)... well we actually purchased two Barvevelders and Four Orpingtons at approx four months of age... they had feathers missing when we got them.
And I am somewhat cutting a long story short here - but two Orpingtons died - one died after...
Personally I think all Hens are Different... I'm lucky that my Girls lay before 8am each day.... I'm not stressing over it and I leave them to there own devices.... they run free range around my Garden and when they first started laying they would lay in Crazy Places like behind a fence or in...
I have bought Four Orpingtons and Two Barnevelder's from a Breeder last Saurday - one of the Orpingtons passed away after two days of arriving at my Home, it was quite weak and seemed to be off balance - I contacted the Breeder and said that when we arrived home with the birds that one of...