Rooster Died but Why?

[Chollister6]

Hello chicken family! I’ve been raising chickens for 2 1/2 years and this is the first time we have lost a bird that wasn’t to a predator. So I’m wanting to learn from this experience and figure out what happened.

So yesterday we had some friends over. One of my friends have kids that are absolutely terrible and no matter how many time my husband and I said something to her kids they would not stop chasing the chickens around. Prior to this he seemed completely healthy. Would crow every morning, mated with his ladies,ate, drank and was only 6 months old. Then toward the end of the day I started noticing he would be standing in one spot not moving and breathing heavy. I thought ok he’s stressed he will go to bed get some rest and be good in the morning.

I woke up this morning to a weirdly quiet morning. No rooster crow I went out and I thought he was dead and then he made a terrible noise. He was in the corner of the coop. So my husband and grabbed him and made him his own comfy home and gave him some eletrolytes with a syringe. He was breathing heavy, not moving, no discharge from his nose, beak or eyes and still had red wattles and comb. A few hours later he passed. I’m think it’s was from the stress but a more experienced friend of mine thinks that is unlikely. But what happened?

 

[sourland]

Sudden death in chickens is rarely from an infectious agent. He may very well have had a congenital problem that was aggravated by the chasing.

 

[Hei 20]

Hello chicken family! I’ve been raising chickens for 2 1/2 years and this is the first time we have lost a bird that wasn’t to a predator. So I’m wanting to learn from this experience and figure out what happened.

So yesterday we had some friends over. One of my friends have kids that are absolutely terrible and no matter how many time my husband and I said something to her kids they would not stop chasing the chickens around. Prior to this he seemed completely healthy. Would crow every morning, mated with his ladies,ate, drank and was only 6 months old. Then toward the end of the day I started noticing he would be standing in one spot not moving and breathing heavy. I thought ok he’s stressed he will go to bed get some rest and be good in the morning.

I woke up this morning to a weirdly quiet morning. No rooster crow I went out and I thought he was dead and then he made a terrible noise. He was in the corner of the coop. So my husband and grabbed him and made him his own comfy home and gave him some eletrolytes with a syringe. He was breathing heavy, not moving, no discharge from his nose, beak or eyes and still had red wattles and comb. A few hours later he passed. I’m think it’s was from the stress but a more experienced friend of mine thinks that is unlikely. But what happened?

I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[Chollister6]

Sudden death in chickens is rarely from an infectious agent. He may very well have had a congenital problem that was aggravated by the chasing.

That’s what I was thinking too but I thought if it was caused by that he wouldn’t have even made it through the night