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[QueenMisha]

Welcome to BYC! It's great to have you.

 

[bettyhalliwill]

I want to Thank everyone for binging so kind and sweet by welcoming me here it makes me feel blessed to know theirs people out their to help people no matter what it is.
I did loose one of my chickens yesterday and not sure what happened. I found her under the water dish just laying their.
I do feed my chickens scraps because I heard that it was OK to give them and they are not free ranged any more sense I had something kill one of them. I think that was from a hawk because we've seen a lot of them around lately so anyways I keep my Babies in their coop from now on. It just boggles me why the one I lost yesterday died.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

That's terrible. Sorry to hear it.

There are many things that could have gone wrong. More info would be needed, including age of bird, size of flock, normal diet and treats, any recent changes, weather, size of coop and run, any abnormal poos.

Sometimes, it just happens.

But if you want to try an identify the cause we can and you might post in the emergencies area.

It's important to make sure the rest of your flock is not at risk. So you need to keep an eye out for any symptoms which might be... not eating or drinking, sleepy, wobbly, weird poos, staying alone... just for starters.

It may be too late now, but if you have more loss... you might be able to get a necropsy done for cheap or free either at the vet, government ag dept, or university with animal science dept. Would probably have to refrigerate the carcass.