My buff Orpington, approx 10 months old started to act a bit strange. I found her hiding and not with her flock and chicks per usual. We just lost a chick but unsure what happened to it. Probably a predator. My hens freely roam the acreage. I knew something was wrong then when she allowed me to...
One of our Black Copper Marans died yesterday. Also I notice three of our hens have been reluctant to leave their perches the last couple of mornings, and the tail feathers are drooping on one of them. They are about 18 months old and free range. Not sure if it is a coincidence but we introduced...
At the very beginning I got four chickens —a rooster, two hens and a chick (Moño) I didn’t know if male or female.
My two hens went broody and that put them out of the market for a long while so the rooster started raping the chick Moño that wasn’t a chick anymore but a young 6/7 months old...
hello all. it is a solemn day on our backyard homestead as our most beloved and special gal, a bantam blue silkie hen, has suddenly passed.
there’s kind of a long backstory, so here it is: she lived on her own for a few months and we added 4 silkie bantam pullets in july. living on her own for...
Greetings. Mavis and Mildred are 3-year-old free-range, Bovans or Lohman Reds. Both very healthy until Mavis started laying yolkless, small eggs for about 6 weeks. Then for 3 days, she seemed to have a slight cold with a few sneezes and runny nose. She held her beak open a lot. Runny poop...
Is this a thing? Could a hen gush out her internal organs somehow throughout the cloaca vent?
I came home after working out of town for two days. I open the coop and i find one of my girls dead on the floor. I should of taken a better look before asking my boyfriend to remove her. It looked as...
My whole flock, 12 chickens, were dead when I came home today. They free range and were all in various places in the yard and their coop. No blood, no signs of struggle. About half were in their backs stretched out and the rest were on their stomachs. About a week ago one of my hens had bubbly...
Hello all. We came home from vacation today and found our ten week old Lavender Orpington dead in the coop. There are no marks at all, it just looks like she dropped dead. I did notice some poop on her rear end but that’s all. The chicken sitter she was acting fine the whole time. It has been in...
Today one of my hens died, her name was Buffy. She was pretty big; she was a Buff Orpington, so maybe it was a heart attack? I am very sad (very time 10000), and don't want any of the other chickens to die. I only have three chickens, well two chickens now, they are pets and I love them very...
Looks like it was her liver.. 91/2 months old. Strange if you ask me, but here are the results
Post-mortem Examination
The necropsy was performed by Dr. Brian Stevens on January 11, 2018 at 8:00 am.
EXTERNAL FINDINGS:
The female chicken weighs 2.513 kg and is in good body condition with...
I have 4 hens ( 2 Banties,an Americana, and a silken). All about 2 yrs old and a young rooster 5 months. Last night when I locked up the coop I noticed that one of my Little Banties was missing. This morning I found her in the coop dead under some leaves pretty beat up. Her back feathers torn...