Dead bird

[chews chooks]

One of my hens died suddenly earlier I believe it was a heart attack apparently naught on by stress IV been told that they beat Thera wings constantly then drop dead after the death if this bird the rest of what was a four bird flock have started flapping their wing for no apparent reason one inperticular seems to be extremely stressed about something and puffs her feathers out whenever she seas me she produced the poo after the death of her best friends as I got them at the same time the other two later on is it an infection am I going to lose my whole flock is it something I'm doing can I prevent it

 

[chews chooks]

Please help I'm incredibly concerned about my flock
Also the bird I am mainly concerned about ah slits of feathers missin I clipped her wings last year and they havnt grown back are they meant to grow back
Feathers missing on her tail nothing IV done they just fell out and on her underside just skin absolutely no feathers she has recently started pulling feathers out major concerns please help

 

[cafarmgirl]

Unfortunately this could have been a whole lot of things. So you just have to start with the most common possibilities and work your way out from there.

Have these birds ever been dewormed? Have you checked them carefully for mites/lices? Internal and external parasites can bring a bird down over time. There are also all kinds of internal problems that can kill a bird quickly. Very often what we think is a sudden death is actually something that has been going on for a while but because chickens are so good at hiding illness we don't catch it until they are very sick or until they just up and die. Sometimes chickens can get into something toxic, there's just a lot of possibilities.

The only way to get a concrete answer is to have a necropsy done. Some state labs will do them for free. Otherwise everything you hear on this forum is just a guess.

As far as wing beating, that is a normal activity for healthy chickens. About all you can do at this point is rule out common causes like internal/external parasites or even coccidiosis, check their environment for toxic plants, moldy food, that sort of thing, and just keep an eye on the others.

 

[chews chooks]

I have never had a problem with mites lice ect I got them from a meat farm so they are all broilers. She( the one who passed ) was fine this morning running around eating clucking but this afternoon she was just laying on her stomached like she just literally died on her feet and collapsed , what about the feather Loss/lack of growth and how the character of my other birds suddenly became very aggressive and wary towards me
From looking at the poo is this a healthy poo ???



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