MaybeMay
Chirping
- Sep 18, 2021
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Hello everyone. Unfortunately this morning one of my Pullets left for chicken heaven. And I was wondering if I could get some help on guessing why she died to help me protect my other chickens.
yesterday morning when I went to let them out of the coop I noticed that my favourite Hen didn’t come out so I opened it up to find her just sitting inside the coop trying to sleep, it was a cold-ish day and the previous day had been horrible with wind and rain so I though maybe she’s caught a cold or something at first but checking her over her eyes and nose seemed fine breathing was a deeper but not to bad. I tried to put her near the food to see if she’d eat and her wings where basically dragging on the ground and she stumbled a little before just sitting down on the floor. So I took her inside to isolate and try keep her warm. All of yesterday I tried to check on her every hour and gave her electrolytes in her water. She would only eat and drink when I held it up to her and would only stand up to poop before stumbling slightly and sitting back down again. She seemed to be breathing normal except straight after she had water she would take a few deeper gasp like breaths. She eventually stopped getting up all together and didn’t even move when I picked her up to change her straw/bedding. I didn’t think she’d make it over night because she started not wanting to eat or drink at all and I was giving her water with a syringe. And this morning she refused to eat or drink and passed away.
she was a blue production cross at 14 weeks old. As I said the previous day had been horrible so didn’t see her too much but she seemed fine running around the backyard with the others. Any advice on what could have happened? I’ve been keeping a close eye on my other chickens and they seem fine so far but I’m worried something will happen to them too. I’m also due to pick up some day olds on the 18th so want to make sure I take care of them. I started with 5 chicks 3 ended up being rooster 2 of which I’ve re homed so now I have 1 rooster and 1 hen and I really wanna make sure they’re safe.
I try to raise them organically so have been giving them things like acv in water once a week and lots of fresh herbs from my overgrown garden. Any advice on what else I could have done or what happened would be appreciated as I’m a bit upset she died and I don’t know why.
yesterday morning when I went to let them out of the coop I noticed that my favourite Hen didn’t come out so I opened it up to find her just sitting inside the coop trying to sleep, it was a cold-ish day and the previous day had been horrible with wind and rain so I though maybe she’s caught a cold or something at first but checking her over her eyes and nose seemed fine breathing was a deeper but not to bad. I tried to put her near the food to see if she’d eat and her wings where basically dragging on the ground and she stumbled a little before just sitting down on the floor. So I took her inside to isolate and try keep her warm. All of yesterday I tried to check on her every hour and gave her electrolytes in her water. She would only eat and drink when I held it up to her and would only stand up to poop before stumbling slightly and sitting back down again. She seemed to be breathing normal except straight after she had water she would take a few deeper gasp like breaths. She eventually stopped getting up all together and didn’t even move when I picked her up to change her straw/bedding. I didn’t think she’d make it over night because she started not wanting to eat or drink at all and I was giving her water with a syringe. And this morning she refused to eat or drink and passed away.
she was a blue production cross at 14 weeks old. As I said the previous day had been horrible so didn’t see her too much but she seemed fine running around the backyard with the others. Any advice on what could have happened? I’ve been keeping a close eye on my other chickens and they seem fine so far but I’m worried something will happen to them too. I’m also due to pick up some day olds on the 18th so want to make sure I take care of them. I started with 5 chicks 3 ended up being rooster 2 of which I’ve re homed so now I have 1 rooster and 1 hen and I really wanna make sure they’re safe.
I try to raise them organically so have been giving them things like acv in water once a week and lots of fresh herbs from my overgrown garden. Any advice on what else I could have done or what happened would be appreciated as I’m a bit upset she died and I don’t know why.