NwChickOwner
In the Brooder
- Aug 16, 2023
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Hello,
Our family recently started keeping chickens. The mixed flock has a 480 square foot run and 100 square foot coop for 11 chickens. Three geese also sleep in a divided section in the coop but don't stay in the run. Today, we left the house for a few hours and came back to our Buff Brahmas dead. I put on gloves and noticed her hip bone was protruding, I'm not sure if she was very thin or if she had died in a position that made it look like this. There was no eye or mouth discharge or crust. She was beautiful, but small. She was the easiest to pick up. This chicken was our 6-year old's favorite chicken so it has been hard and we are looking for some guidance so this hopefully doesn't happen to another (we understand will never know for sure what happened without a necropsy). The 6-year old that would sit and watch them for hours told us that the chicken has acted sleepy for a few days and very sleepy this morning. We noticed she was lethargic yesterday but then she was acting fine and wish we would have realized she could be sick. We now know if a chicken is acting lethargic that we need to help it but we are trying to figure out possibilities of what could have happened. Please, any and all advice from experienced chicken owners would be appreciated.
Our family recently started keeping chickens. The mixed flock has a 480 square foot run and 100 square foot coop for 11 chickens. Three geese also sleep in a divided section in the coop but don't stay in the run. Today, we left the house for a few hours and came back to our Buff Brahmas dead. I put on gloves and noticed her hip bone was protruding, I'm not sure if she was very thin or if she had died in a position that made it look like this. There was no eye or mouth discharge or crust. She was beautiful, but small. She was the easiest to pick up. This chicken was our 6-year old's favorite chicken so it has been hard and we are looking for some guidance so this hopefully doesn't happen to another (we understand will never know for sure what happened without a necropsy). The 6-year old that would sit and watch them for hours told us that the chicken has acted sleepy for a few days and very sleepy this morning. We noticed she was lethargic yesterday but then she was acting fine and wish we would have realized she could be sick. We now know if a chicken is acting lethargic that we need to help it but we are trying to figure out possibilities of what could have happened. Please, any and all advice from experienced chicken owners would be appreciated.