One of our little grey chickens was dead this morning when we went out there.
Between the flies, wasps, and longer grass that needs cut, We are on a mission to mow the goat area (guess 2 goats wasn't enough to keep it down.) deep cleaning/moving the coop, to make sure there's no wasp nests nearby, and I got my son scrubbing out all the water buckets, and refilling everything, to make sure it's not an algea problem.
My daughter "failed" to mention that her chicken yesterday was acting sick. She was fine the day before when I went out there with her. She said she'd been panting really hard. We did have a super hot day yesterday, and it could have been heat stroke, or an egg problem. She doesn't lay eggs very often to begin with, compared to our white cochin and RIR hen.
I hate how we seem to lose a chicken every few weeks, (although, it mostly happens when it's SUPER hot... and we didn't put the frozen ice out yesterday for them.... so now I feel guilty. I thought it had cooled off enough not to cause heat stroke issues.)