Another, thing was that I found a 1 year hen dead this morning with her head down in the shavings. Another hen had a dystended abdomen a couple of days ago and is doing a little better now.
My 1 year rooster is not eating. I found some tiny black bugs in his food so I cleaned out his area and put down promethian powder and new bedding and new feeder.
I noticed the rubbermaid container had a hole on the bottom and the area was wet underneath. I was concerned about food getting...
I could not get a photo inside mouth, but I looked indeed her mouth and I didn't see anything unusual. She behaves normally eating, preening, drinking water and moving closer to her flock. Interspersed with her falling asleep many times a day outside and inside.
She died.
We had a 2 day snow storm with over a foot of snow. I have shoveled around the coop and the outside area so if we get snow melt it is away from the coop.
After work today, I am going to remove all the shavings and clean out the coop.
The coop was put on the part of my property that...
The hen is worse today and I think she will die today.
We have had others die like this over the past couple of years. The avian inspector came out and did a necrospy on one bird and found nothing wrong other than she was dead. She inspected our coop and run area and was not finding anything...
She does not have bubbles around her eyes.
The coop has wood shavings and has not been thoroughly cleaned out in a couple of months. I clean the sleeping area 1-2 times per week.