Yeah its ok. My birds are out right now. Neighbors birds are out...
I have a question, and I tried searching it, and wow... so darn difficult to find an answer, even after searching through a lot of threads...
Can a cockerel kill a hen by standing on her after mating? There are no injuries on my hen, she's just dead in the nest box, and my faverolle cockerel who is coming into his manliness will stand on the hens for several seconds sometimes, then mate again, stand and then get off... SO, I was wondering if it is a possibility that she died from him standing on her? The nest she was in was the broody coop, so no real nest box, but just deep litter with a nest in it that several hens prefer to the 6 other nest boxes... Well anyway, I checked her over and found no injuries to her back, under her wings, her neck or her head. I flipped her over and looked at her belly, and it felt a little squishy, crop full, normal feeling, but her vent looked odd. Never seen on like that on a dead hen before, so my other question is, could she have died from a prolapse that quick? She was coming out of her molt, and had just started laying again last week... The vent was kinda protruding a little, but not a lot, just the look of how it is prior to the egg starting to come out. No, I didn't feel an egg in there, and there as an egg in the nest, that looked like her normal egg, no blood on it... Comb and wattles normal looking as well.
This is a first for me on this, I am at a loss. Never had any of the other cockerels stand on the hens before that I noticed. He is has only just started to do the rooster deed, or try to do the rooster deed in the last week, week and a half.
On another note... I had my first exploding egg today. It. Was. Gross.
