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    DEAD AMERAUCANA FOUND IN NESTING BOX-PRIOR WEIRD BEHAVIOR

    she was broody for about a week. Maybe between that and the heatwave she became dehydrated but she was still eating. My husband disposed her body for me I was too upset, but now I wish I had checked her to see if she had an egg inside her abdomen. This is the 2nd loss from out first ever batch...
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    DEAD AMERAUCANA FOUND IN NESTING BOX-PRIOR WEIRD BEHAVIOR

    I read up on how I could have given her a bath. massage, etc. I guess my question now is could a bird die when they are not remedied of being egg bound? Even if she laid an egg before she died- was there one possibly still stuck in there?
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    DEAD AMERAUCANA FOUND IN NESTING BOX-PRIOR WEIRD BEHAVIOR

    I did notice that some of her feathers on her stomach were gone around the leg area. Patches of her flesh were visible on her stomach by the groin I had held her and looked her over well before putting her in the tree cage. What is the course of action if a bird becomes egg bound? she waz still...
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    DEAD AMERAUCANA FOUND IN NESTING BOX-PRIOR WEIRD BEHAVIOR

    I also noticed her top comb was a bit dry and shriveled like how it looks when they are molting- she was about 1 year old. The other chickens seem fine but do you think that she might have been sick? I hope the others don't get it... help?? Advice??
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    DEAD AMERAUCANA FOUND IN NESTING BOX-PRIOR WEIRD BEHAVIOR

    We had a beautiful ameracuana that gave us gorgeous green eggs [Carmen]. The last week we had noticed she had wanted to be on her egg or sit on even the other chickens[4] eggs. We also noticed that she would "puff up" like a turkey whenever we tried to remove her or even when we would try to...
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    Bird killed yesterday- other chixx traumetized??

    thanxx everyone 4 yuour support will update u all soon-' buying some owls juss fer da heck of it tomorrow too xo:/
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    Bird killed yesterday- other chixx traumetized??

    Thanks for your kind thoughts. We are all taking this harder then we ever thought. It was just so unexpected. And she was secretley everyone's favorite bird. She was the littlest one of course. And she was starting to act like she was about to lay soon. They're all due to lay around thanksgiving...
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    Bird killed yesterday- other chixx traumetized??

    Hi Folks- SeattleChixx here, its been while. Up till yesterday everything had been going great. Yesterday my husband was taking a nap around 1pm, it was a sunny fall day. He heard a loud bang that woke him up and went outside to find our little blue silkie dead with a wound on it's neck. We...
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