Betty was a 3.5 y.o. Red Sexlink (this one from a different pen). She had been looking "off" for the past few months. She had stopped laying right around the time she started looking off. She would rally now and again, however, Saturday evening she was feeling and looking poorly but standing and moving about, albeit slowly. I isolated her. She ate a little scrambled egg and bread soaked in milk and drank a little water before retiring for the evening. At 5:30 am Sunday she was still alive (still standing), but passed sometime between then and noon yesterday.
Having 2 birds die within a week is just a little too close for comfort for me and even though the necropsy came back on Iris, the other hen, as COD severe gout, I've still not gotten the results back on her from further testing of common poultry diseases such as MG, MS and IB so I'm a nervous wreck.
I'm surmising that Betty's death may have been due to either internal laying or EYP. When she was alive and laying, Betty was always a consistent layer of unusually large eggs. No other birds on the property are exhibiting any of the symptoms that either Iris or Betty had (I have a closed flock).
I'll post the necropsy report on Betty once I have it. Hubby dropped her off at the State lab this a.m. so I probably won't hear anything before late afternoon.
Having 2 birds die within a week is just a little too close for comfort for me and even though the necropsy came back on Iris, the other hen, as COD severe gout, I've still not gotten the results back on her from further testing of common poultry diseases such as MG, MS and IB so I'm a nervous wreck.
I'm surmising that Betty's death may have been due to either internal laying or EYP. When she was alive and laying, Betty was always a consistent layer of unusually large eggs. No other birds on the property are exhibiting any of the symptoms that either Iris or Betty had (I have a closed flock).
I'll post the necropsy report on Betty once I have it. Hubby dropped her off at the State lab this a.m. so I probably won't hear anything before late afternoon.
