Chicken deaths help!

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They may be pecking each other due to being too close together and possibly bored. This happened to me and I have lost two chickens from it... my chickens looked completely fine but it had a bar spot on its back. I used Rooster Booster Pick-No-More Healing Lotion, here is the link: https://www.chewy.com/rooster-boost...lMh5IpPRBL4JiuWbjtWgrTn8K7IcY8NRoCC7cQAvD_BwE

It helped a little bit, but overtime the chickens began attacking eachother and I didn’t realize it till just before it died. Do they seem to be attacking each other at all?
 
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Signs of bird flu:

  1. Swelling around eyes, neck, comb, head
  2. purple-ish color in legs or legs going limp
  3. respiratory issues, sneezing, or wheezing
  4. diarrhea or runny poo
  5. Discoloration in comb
  6. sudden death in other chickens
  7. egg production drop
  8. deformed or soft shelled eggs
  9. loss of appetite
 
They might very well be picking on each other because of boredom... you could try giving them scratch, (chicken treats) you may already! You could also buy some chicken toys. Make sure they get lots of dirt to dust bathe in, and make sure that they are not in a tight space. I will post a article that talks about how much space your chickens need per chicken. Just try to help the, not to be bored or else they will peck each other and that may cause death. I am so sorry for your hens and losses!
 
-Isla June- said:
They might very well be picking on each other because of boredom... you could try giving them scratch, (chicken treats) you may already! You could also buy some chicken toys. Make sure they get lots of dirt to dust bathe in, and make sure that they are not in a tight space. I will post a article that talks about how much space your chickens need per chicken. Just try to help the, not to be bored or else they will peck each other and that may cause death. I am so sorry for your hens and losses!
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We havd 10 bantam chickens. On each end of a run we have a 5x5x5 hen house. Most hens choose to roost at night in one house. But they lay eggs in both. The run connecting the two houses is 12 feet long by six feet wide and tall. We have branches for perching high and an old hexagon coop full of straw for digging, and I have been adding pecking blocks.
One chicken who passed had no missing feathers, one silkie had no head feathers but no wounds. The Cochin who passed today had broken back feather which looked over preened or broken from mounting by other female Cochin possibly and a bald spot on the back of her head but to cuts or bruising to the skin.
I have seen my chickens gang up on each other before and I almost always hear it. I heard nothing which I just find so odd. Just seems like she was dust bathing one min and dead the next.
 
Poetspets said:
We havd 10 bantam chickens. On each end of a run we have a 5x5x5 hen house. Most hens choose to roost at night in one house. But they lay eggs in both. The run connecting the two houses is 12 feet long by six feet wide and tall. We have branches for perching high and an old hexagon coop full of straw for digging, and I have been adding pecking blocks.
One chicken who passed had no missing feathers, one silkie had no head feathers but no wounds. The Cochin who passed today had broken back feather which looked over preened or broken from mounting by other female Cochin possibly and a bald spot on the back of her head but to cuts or bruising to the skin.
I have seen my chickens gang up on each other before and I almost always hear it. I heard nothing which I just find so odd. Just seems like she was dust bathing one min and dead the next.
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Your coop surely seems fun for chickens and big enough to house them... my chicken had no pecking marks on her and did seem to be dust bathing in our coop when she suddenly died. Since I, going through this same thing, I don’t know if I can help you further, here are some amazing BYC members that can hopefully help you: @nuthatched @Dr Evy @ColtHandorf
 
Yeah, that’s a hard decision. Since you say you have not seen any predators free ranging would be a great idea to get them separated. Make sure to keep your eyes on them though. I recommend getting the Rooster Booster peck no More Healing Lotion that i pasted the link to. You can order it from Chewy... you could also separate the chickens that are peckinf the other chickens into the run with food and water and keep the good ones inside the main area with food and water while they are not free ranging. This will help to “punish“ the ones that are mean.
 

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