Didn't look like it, there was no evidence of digging on the outside. I'm taking her into the Animal Diagnostic Lab at Penn State tomorrow for a necroscopy, as a learning experience for me, I'll post the results. I'm also wondering if there are any specific signs that I should be on the watch...
After fostering two New Hampshire Reds through an awful and long winter, I went out this evening to find one dead. She was wedged against the edge of the coop, on top of a freshly dug area. She had been seemingly fine until today; when I went out this morning she was on the roost, which was...