I just posted this in the disease thread. Any thoughts?
We have had two ISA browns die in four days. First on Saturday. She was looking a little lethargic on Friday, but nothing we could really pinpoint, just not enthusiastic. On Saturday, we caught her to check to see if she was egg bound. While I have no experience detecting this, I didn't find anything that would lead me to think that was the problem. a little while later DS was holding her, she expelled a large white poop all over him, convulsed and died. Today, one of the hens was sitting with the broody guinea hens (two are co-brooding). I thought maybe she was going broody as well, but when the kids went to check, she was also dead. These were healthy hens, 1yo, good layers who were fine until Friday and today respectively. No wheezing, discharge, bloody poop. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary yet within 24 hours they are dead. Any suggestions of where to start? They don't match they symptoms of anything I am finding. I had thought perhaps bad feed, but we just bought new feed on Saturday morning which wouldn't explain the Sat afternoon death. We are just baffled at this point. No new birds introduced, etc.
