...and the chicks died too.
I have/had a bantam chicken that was sitting on and successfully hatched 7 eggs. Last night, the chicks were hatching and mom and chicks seemed perfectly healthy and normal. This morning, they were all dead. I'm assuming the chicks died after the hen did, but have no idea why she would suddenly die. Has anyone had this happen?
There were no marks or injuries on her, the coop hadn't been disturbed and each chick is fully accounted for. She was in a separate section of the coop alone. I'm at a total loss as to what happened. She has abandoned eggs in the past and I've successfully hatched healthy chicks from her in the incubator. This was the first time that she's actually sat on the eggs through to hatch.
I'm fairly new to owning chickens (these were left by the previous owners of the house we bought a few months ago) and I'm trying to learn as much as possible in a short amount of time.
I have/had a bantam chicken that was sitting on and successfully hatched 7 eggs. Last night, the chicks were hatching and mom and chicks seemed perfectly healthy and normal. This morning, they were all dead. I'm assuming the chicks died after the hen did, but have no idea why she would suddenly die. Has anyone had this happen?
There were no marks or injuries on her, the coop hadn't been disturbed and each chick is fully accounted for. She was in a separate section of the coop alone. I'm at a total loss as to what happened. She has abandoned eggs in the past and I've successfully hatched healthy chicks from her in the incubator. This was the first time that she's actually sat on the eggs through to hatch.
I'm fairly new to owning chickens (these were left by the previous owners of the house we bought a few months ago) and I'm trying to learn as much as possible in a short amount of time.