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Trying to find a silver lining here… We had a flock of 8 chickens, the maximum legally allowed in Seattle. With the 'Lorp this morning and our cockerel later today :hit removed from the flock, at least we'll have room to get more chicks in the spring…

My sympathies that you've gone through something similar. :( If we didn't hope to get some test results from the state lab, we'd do a home necropsy too, to look for obvious visible things like that. (We never did feel any hard lumps or distended abdomen, but who knows.) Thank you. She was...

Sad update: the Australorp died early this morning. She never did develop any signs or symptoms beyond extreme lethargy. We will try to send the body to get a necropsy test done — but apparently creating an account with the state lab involves a manual approval step, so it may or may not happen...

Here's an update from my husband, who let the chickens out this morning. On the negative side: still quiet (when we don't interact with her) and "not right" comb "shrunken" scraggly feathers (although it is molting time…) hiding in the nesting box again not interested in food (at least while...

I read more about coffee grounds and chickens, and it sounds like the primary concern is caffeine. But my coffee grounds are actually decaf! So that’s a relief... Also, caffeine would be out of her system long ago; as I said, it’s been a week now. Which is both good and bad news, obviously…...

My husband checked her crop tonight when he locked up the coop. He says she hadn't eaten much but it definitely wasn't hard or impacted in any way. (And he regularly does feel the chicken’s crops, so he knows what “normal” feels like for them. I trust his observations.) So that seems like a dead...

Thanks for the reply! There are certainly little puddles in the yard here and there — we live in Seattle and it’s fall, so that’s impossible to avoid. Not big stagnant ponds or anything like that, though. There are (a small amount of) coffee grounds in a compost pile they can scratch around...

We have an Australorp hen who’s never given us any trouble since we got her as a pullet in the spring. But starting last week, she started hiding in the same corner all day, not interacting with the rest of the flock (and they seem to ignore her too), not leaving the coop on her own in the...