I have two chickens that have gone broody. All of the feathers are gone from their chest. Is this okay? Will they come back? I'm assuming it's because they just want to lay in the nest box all day. I tried putting them in a cage for a week. It broke them from being broody for only a day. Then...
She was in the nest box, it's only 56° today. There's not a mark on her anywhere. No mites. All of the other chickens seem fine. She was a black copper maran. Only 11 months old.
One of my 11 month old chickens died today. I have been to the coop and run four or five times today. Everyone seemed fine. Went down about 20 minutes ago and one of them was dead. There's not a mark on her. Any idea how I can find out what happened??