My chickens keep on dying :( One after another

[centrarchid]

Run date is still what I am looking for with respect to feed age although storage while in you possession is still important. Consumption of fresh vegetables if enough should compensate for concerns I have about feed quality.


What about mosquitoes going after your birds at night? Some carry diseases that nickle and dime you.

 

[Gaynor]

Hi I buy fresh feed from my seller and I know she gets it fresh on a weekly basis but I have no idea how old it would be before she buys her supplies. She gets through many bags weekly and from her having it to me feeding it would be a maximum of 4 weeks before its used.

 

[centrarchid]

By now you should have enough posts to show pictures. Can you give close-ups of their faces and feet?

 

[Gaynor]

I am using an iPad does anyone know how I upload photos so I can show my girls please

 

[Gaynor]

My girls poop looks normal to me and this is a pic that it's all like this. No blood or runny and green but I don't know if I've missed something.
There feet are normal no abnormalities in the scales on there legs or feet. No swelling of the eyes or mucus from the nose, no wheezing coughing or anything like that.
They are 3yr old birds.

 

[Eggcessive]

Three year olds could be suffering from internal laying or egg yolk peritonitis, but they should show symptoms of not being well before their last day. I hope you can find the cause of death, but a necropsy by a local vet or health official may be the only way to find out, if you have another death. In the UK, if that is where you live, I wouldn't know where to ask about that. Be sure and check around the coop and on your birds for red mites. It can look like gray ashes in the coop.

 

[centrarchid]

The standard feces shown does look good but no example of cecal feces shown.


Age-3 birds should be OK as hens typically can live well beyond that unless stressed. What breed is involved? High output breeds most apt to have longevity problems.

Show a picture of remaining birds from up fairly close.


Most of what we a trying get at over last few days would take you about 60 seconds to work out with birds in hand if you knew what to look for. This is a hard way to learn.

 

[Gaynor]

Hi my girls are hybrid. I will get some pics of them today and put them up but they look healthy although at the moment their moulting so look abit tatty which is the usual thing this time of year.
I live by heathrow airport in England and none of our vets know anything about chickens so it would be of no use to take them to the vets. Their weight feels fine and they look fine but obviously are not fine.

 

[centrarchid]

Pictures

 

[Gaynor]

These are 2 of my girls as you can see bluebell is loosing her feathers going through the moult. But they look healthy apart from that. They are eating and drinking fine.