hen death

  1. C

    Hens not laying

    I recently lost my biggest hen suddenly, with no signs of illness or trauma. She just kinda dropped dead. Since she died, my other Rhode Island Red has stopped laying. She doesn’t have any symptoms of being egg bound and has been eating normally. My other two Easter Eggers are still laying...
  2. |Aphrodite|

    My rooster’s ‘favorite’ hen died

    My rooster, hades, had been lonely after his brother left him to go with all of my other chickens. I had tried to get them together but it didn’t work. I took out a gentle hen who was a golden laced wyodnette hen. The two bonded and he never mated with another hen and took extremely good care of...
  3. littlefarmgirl9

    Sick chickens, died from...

    My neighbor's chickens do not get out much, if ever, and their water quality/living conditions are messy, so I was not surprised when one hen named Gerda got sick. Gerda was about a five year old Barred Rock hen, who started acting lethargic. She had very watery poop, just white urates, when she...
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