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CackedNut said:
When I went out to let the girls out to free range, my silver wyandotte (Nicee) was dead.  She was fine last night when I put them up for the night.  They had free ranged all day.  I looked her over completely.  There were no bugs, bites, lice, mites that I could see.  Is it possible that she could have eaten something?  Snake bite? However with a snake bite, I would imagine I would see some sort of "mark".  I'm stumped.  I have been having trouble with feather loss, however, she wasn't one of the ones that had any.  Cruddy cruddy cruddy cr*p!!!!!  My youngest is going to be so upset when he gets home from school.  Nicee wasn't one of our "lap chickens", but she was a good layer.
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Did you do a necropsy? I believe it is important to find out what happened if you do not know. They only time I do jot do one is when I find the remains after 24 or more hours. I know I should but the Oder is more then I can handle, I need more then a face mask. When you do one use rubber gloves and a face mask. There is an articali in Poultery World magazine July/August 2014
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It explained some of the things I was seeing when I performed them in the past. It will help me in the future on doing it better. It explains the best way to go about it. It was on my first necropsy that I learned about hot feed I was killing my layers by feeding them to good. To much corn and grain will give them conjunctive heart failure, plus her liver was I larger and yellowish. I put them on a diet, sort of. But I still lost 1 more. They actually improved their laying after they lost a little weight. I know it is unpleasant but it will help. I took pictures and showed my vet when I next went in. He confirmed heart failure. I had egg bond, 1 parasite, and another that I could not bring myself to put out of her suffering. I tried everything I could do. But in the end I had to give her relief. Usually by the time you see your girl in trouble they die, or you never know. She had several rotten eggs in her. Most girls would have died weeks ago, but she had a strong will to live to have survived so long like that.
 
Ron just brought in our favorite chicken she was dead her neck was broken. She was the little bantam we took home because I wouldn't leave her a the store without a flock. She was more pet than livestock. :hit :hit :hit :hit :hit RIP Pipen.
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Ron Skekel said:
Ron just brought in our favorite chicken she was dead her neck was broken. She was the little bantam we took home because I wouldn't leave her a the store without a flock. She was more pet than livestock. :hit :hit :hit :hit :hit RIP Pipen.
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I'm sure you can take comfort in the fact that she lived the best life she possibly could but I'm sorry for your painful loss.
 
Ya, mine wait in line, if an egg from the back of the line is gonna drop tho...they'll pile right up on one another :gig and even if everyone had a nest...they'd wait in line or pile in :lau

Red hen in this video was the Boss...the EE was bottom of the order

Melnic said:
Question, Does pecking order come into play when they are laying eggs? Or more specifically access to the nest boxes? It seems like I have a hen that guards the best boxes until she decides she wants to get into them and lay but in the meanwhile I have others who are pacing like they "need" to but the "guard" chases them off. Is this typical?
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