Chicken mystery
3 dead chickens this morning in the closed up coop.
All with neck trauma (blood, lacerations, body in stressed positions contorted)
I can’t see where or how something got in. All the girls that are dead are my oldest (5years)
No tracks around the coop (there’s snow on the...
I got my girls in late summer 2014 and they bloomed to great producers by winter of 2015. Their first laying year they did great then last winter it dwindled. Now I get two eggs sometimes every other day out of my 12 girls.
All my girls look great. No bugs, no injuries, clean coup, warm coup...
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What came of this? My orpington hen is doing the same. Although eating, laying even roosted last night, she prefers to be grounded.
I see no injury to the leg, hip or thigh. She refuses to bear weight on one leg if she stands, she pulls the "injured" leg up.
I have her in a...