Help. Two dead hens within a week of each other. 5 months old, not unkempt-looking, no mucous, no diarrhea. No signs of illness beforehand. Free range, coop at night. First found in morning in nest box week ago. Tonight, hen lying in coop at door, looked dead, stroked her, opened eyes...
We're Moolinda Meadows Farm - 26 acre hobby farm - near Hot Springs, Arkansas. We raise moos for beef, hens for eggs, and ducks and geese just because. We have Rhode Island reds and white leghorns; our last barred rock recently passed. Our ducks are pekin and geese are tufted buff. Sylvia...