death

I incubated some eggs and got 6 babies. They were all looking fine the first few days but for the last two days one has been constantly opening and closing its beak, with its eyes close and laying on the ground. it is not eating or drinking and looks as if it is about to die. i desperately need...

Over the last few weeks I’ve had three chickens just drop dead out of nowhere. I found that one of the chickens had the area around their vent severely mangled to the point where you could clearly see into her. This could be on the other chickens that had passed away, but I didn’t get to check...

So, about a month ago my young rooster died unexpectedly after having a sour crop. Then, about a week ago, another one of my young hens died after having a sour crop, after my hen (Molly) died my father looked to see if anything was wrong and found blood in her mouth. HELP, I don't know what is...

My chicken was perfectly healthy. Hawthorne(the chicken) died last night. I can only conclude it was an accident. My dogs love to chase the chickens. But this day, this time, they got a little to close. I inspected the body and it shows that while being chased the dog stepped on the chickens...

A week ago, I walked outside into the yard to notice that there were several eggshells scattered throughout the backyard. As I got closer, I could smell something that made my stomach turn, and I knew what I was going to see before I saw it. Broken eggs with fetuses, almost fully-developed...

I've been losing chicken after chicken in the past few weeks I went from 7 chickens to 3 in about 5weeks. They're all americanas, and all being pecked mainly their butts. One had an egg stuck, but the other 3 just died suddenly. I also noticed that the 3 that died their vents were opened. I...

I have 3 broiler chickens all 9 weeks old. They don't look fully big, they are yoing and they chirp, I just give rice, grains and scraps as food. And they are very active. May be after it grows fully matured, i might free range it around the house. I'm not planning to kill them for meat at all...

Its a sad day on our little farm. Our Wyandotte Hen passed away during the night. I found her sitting in the coop fluffed up and legatharic. I moved her to the "hospital in" and began working on her. At first Virginia and I thought she was hypothermic and treated her for that. Doing...

One of the hens we inherited when we bought our home died in the night. The whole flock was said to be about ten years old when we moved in and took over care of them. This hen was doing great just two days ago with no signs of trouble at all. Yesterday she was found laying in the corner of the...

We lost our Americana hen last night. We thought she got locked out of the coop last night & froze. Poor girl. It was about -20 with the windchill. Tonight my son found a Silver Wyandotte dead. She wasn't frozen yet. Now we're thinking the first one died & he just didnt see her when he locked...

I didn’t quite know where to put this, as it’s more about the death of my sweet hen, Daphne. My chickens tend to drink out of a small pond we have in the front yard. We discourage this heavily and try our best to keep them out of that yard. It was unsuccessful this morning. She had been...

Hey all. I started a thread back on Oct 25 when my Buff Orpington (Miss Sadie) got sick. People were great help and I was able to nurse her back to health. Original post was HERE. I have a new update. Miss Sadie just suddenly passed today. She was fine this morning when I let them out of...

I was sleeping, everything was locked up when my two dogs (Stella Black Golden-doodle Left in profile pic, Riley Shichon Right in pic) started barking. I ignored then and went beck to sleep. Eventually they would stop then start back up again. The fourth time they began barking I sat up in my...

Hi, im in urgent need of help, i had 4 cockatiels all well and happy and thought they might be happier in a more jungly feel so hung their cages side by side on my fence that grows many plants and has ivory on it so its a nice feature for them. Lately I've been seeing quite a few mice whenever i...

so my family has 2 chickens, tapioca and tetra. tetra passed away from a fox and or hawk etc... but we still have tapioca. I have just been wondering if this will effect her egg laying or behavior since we had such a small flock.So far we have just seen taps looking for tetra and calling out for...

I've always tried to be acutely aware of my responsibility as a single person and a caretaker of animals and thought I'd done a decent job of it, but my mistake caused the death of a very sweet young chicken. It's something to think about if you live alone (as in not with humans) but have...

This morning something terrible happened. My Cayuga ducks, Mochi, who I raised when she was just a little duckling, passed away today. We woke up getting ready to go on a family day trip when it happened. I saw her laying on the ground outside completely unable to move. She was just flopped...

I have a chicken about 2 years old who was still laying eggs and eating who just died. She has a history of repeated impacted and sour crop. I took her to the vet about a month ago for the sour crop and the vet mentioned that she might have some disease or deformity that could cause her to die...