Backyard Chickens Keep Dying

[Siliquini72]

Another dead chicken and no vet till Tuesday what to do ?????

 

[casportpony]

If you live in the US find a lab in your State and have a necropsy done:
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahln/downloads/csf_lab_list.pdf

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

This is how I ship mine:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/799747/how-to-send-a-bird-for-a-necropsy-pictures

-Kathy

 

[Siliquini72]

Ok update this morning I noticed 1 of them are rearing up and trying hard to breath air in every few minutes .. Upper repository cold? Worms ?

 

[ten chicks]

Ok update this morning I noticed 1 of them are rearing up and trying hard to breath air in every few minutes .. Upper repository cold? Worms ?

There has to be some symptoms you may have missed them. How is their poop,any sneezing,discharge from eyes/nostrils,sores,vent issues,mites/lice/worms,crop issues. Have you looked at symptoms for Coccidiosis? They are dying,there is always some symptoms,you may not have noticed symptoms,but they are there. The chicken struggling to breathe may be in the process of dying.

 

[Siliquini72]

No discharge or anything that why I'm lost .. It was just one chicken this morning wheezing this morning the rest seem to be ok . The one that died yesterday was the last of our original chickens but she looked like she just payed down and passed away . No discharge or anything I spent a hour last night walking the coop and closed in area for anything they can get into all looked good . I sent they place where I get there feed a message waiting for a reply . The only thing I can think is when they fertilized the lawn I cut the grass after and some got blown into the chicken run .

 

[ten chicks]

No discharge or anything that why I'm lost .. It was just one chicken this morning wheezing this morning the rest seem to be ok . The one that died yesterday was the last of our original chickens but she looked like she just payed down and passed away . No discharge or anything I spent a hour last night walking the coop and closed in area for anything they can get into all looked good . I sent they place where I get there feed a message waiting for a reply . The only thing I can think is when they fertilized the lawn I cut the grass after and some got blown into the chicken run .

My guess is either Cocci or poison from grass fertilizer. Did any die before grass was fertilized? Were any new chickens added to flock prior to chickens dying?

 

[Siliquini72]

The weird thing is even if they have Cocci no sign at all feathers look good and there acting normal . I was watching them this morning and it seems like they all are eating and drinking . But egg production is has stopped in my original hens. Yes the new chickens seem all ok but the one today that was wheezing i quarantined this morning hope its not to late.