death

This morning around 7am, I watched a chick hatch. It’s day 22 today, and I thought everything was ok as it was running around. Another chick was shrink wrapped and I was waiting for the pipped eggs to hatch before helping. The shrink wrapped chick is ok now, but the chick that hatched at 7 am...

Woke up this morning to let the chickens out and everyone woke up & was acting normal as always and then I went back to bed for about 3 hours to notice my 2 year old ee hen [a month from 3] laying dead in the run. Overall she was healthy, wasn't over weight, never had any worms or anything, no...

I don't really see a thread dedicated to this already, so I figured I'd make one myself! I recently lost one of my sweetest girls in such a tragic way, and dealing with it has been extremely difficult. It's only been one day, so the pain is still very fresh, and I'd like to do something good...

(This chicken was a hen, just wanted to let you all know) He actually died while I was writing a post about his condition. I'll describe what I can remember here. I began noticing his abnormal behavior yesterday. He began acting quite sticky, lagging behind his flock and not foraging like...

Hi all, It's our first year raising chickens and we just lost one of our hens today, looking for some input on if I could have done anything better. I suspect it may have been from being egg bound but am not certain. She was around 8 months old had been laying nearly every day without issues...

It's starting to get warm here in Minnesota, no more winter, but yesterday and today I found two dead chickens. They were pretty healthy, nice and fluffy, I didn't find any predator marks on them. What could be the problem? Is it because of the sudden change in weather? But the first one that...

Went out to water the chickens (I have 13 hens all about 1 year old, with a few 4 month olds) and found one of my leghorns dead on the floor of the coop. I'm guessing she died yesterday because she was pretty stiff/frozen and it got down to about 9 degrees last night. I hadn't noticed that she...

Are chickens known to get scared to death? I had a 1 year old silkie hen drop dead either last night or early this morning. No signs of illness or anything. I feel like it could have been a fear induced heart attack because we recently moved her and her pen mate to my grandmother's and she has a...

So I don’t know what’s going on. I feel like one thing keeps happening after another and I don’t know what to do. This is my first time raising chickens, I started with 17 hens. A couple of mainly white ones, a couple gold, a couple black and white, and a few Easter eggers. I think it was a bad...

I've dubbed myself with something I like to call chicken anxiety. Now I'm not scared of chickens or anything like that. But I noticed something. Ever since Blacky (my prairie bluebell) passed away back in September, I've felt very nervous not spending a lot of time with my chickens. To the point...

I am trying to get over a death of a White Leghorn in my family. Any advice? Anyone here to talk?

We've gotten addicted. It's only been a few months and I'm hopeless. Update on the Chicken Flock We got 22 new chickens. All of them are female but three, but the person who gave them to us accidentally bought full Rhode Island Reds instead of Bantams, which is definitely a problem seeing as we...

They are about 1 month old. I know 100% for a fact that its not wry neck. They are silkies, they are holding their neck scrunched in as if they are cold but it's a warm temperature and they have their mama bird. They keep one by one laying on their side refusing to open their eyes and then they...

So my Creves are giving me trouble. First my rooster has a defect or two I'm not sure I want to pass on. Now one of my two Creve hens is dead. Probably raccoon since her head was gone and she was all eaten. Or a mink. So now I have one good Creve hen and an aggressive less than perfect rooster...

Sorry for the chapter book I'm about to write. I'm heartbroken. I only have 3 girls and now 2 are gone. I'm so upset, I did everything I could right. I tried to do everything by the books and speak to people here and I knew about raising chickens, and then one died suddenly two weeks ago. I had...

Hi all, I have owned two silkie chickens (Dolly and Elvis) for the past 10 years but unfortunately today Elvis was put down. Obviously the two were very close and I'm lost as to what I should do with poor Dolly. As she is 10 years old I think that rehoming might be a bit too stressful for her...

Hello all, I have lot of hens on my flock And one hen was hit on one leg by ****ing bicker But it's not Broken but skin tear also ankle little broken and bone appear on legs . i can't do a suction And I applied betadine for stop infection And bandaged entire leg And given 0.5 ml...

Im heart broken this morning, I went out to the run and checked inside the coop and my pekin duck did not move. I thought it was sleeping and shook it and realized it was dead. After having somewhat of a mental breakdown, I had my boyfriend come get her out. She had her head stretched out and...

Last night I had my two female geese unfortunately get killed by possibly a raccoon or a beaver, through the fence gate of the cage. I still have one make geese left and I don’t know what to do with him, and I’m afraid that he might get killed as well, and/or suffer from any other lack company...

I lost my first hen from what appears to have been a medical issue. In hind sight, she had been reluctant to enter the coop and seemed to want to stay in the run.. I did not force her in because I was outside with my dog, but when I went to put her in a couple hours later, she was dead. Does...