Scared to Death?

[Olda Bat]

Hi all,
I'm so very sad to say I found my one and a half year old White Rock, Pearl, dead in the hen house this morning. It looks like she died in her sleep and fell off the roost. I can't find anything wrong with her....nothing. No mites, clean vent, clean beak...We thought she was one of our healthiest birds. She was out yesterday evening running around, then I tucked them in at 10 after finding a fox on the coop roof. They all seemed to be happy and oblivious....cooing and such.

I am really sad...my chickens are my pets and I keep a blog about my life with them: www.thebackyardfarmproject.com. I'm worried there might be some disease I am missing and I will find the rest of my happy little flock dead too? Or, is it possible she just had a heart attack? Did the fox come back and scare her to death? (No possible way for critters to get into the coop....my husband built Fort Knox). But the foxes and their new kits are terrorizing the neighborhood and people are losing their chickens.

Thanks for your thoughts....devastating losing one...I sure don't want to lose the other four. Sad day in our lil' patch of heaven.

 

[realsis]

I'm so very sorry for your loss! I pray God will give you comfort during this sad sad time. I couldn't begin to even guess what went wrong because without any clues to go by it could be so many things! When the fox came were they able to actually see it from there roost? If they could it is possible that she got scared
and had a heart attack. but if they couldn't actually
see the fox then I doubt that had anything to do with
her death. Did you notice any thing different about
her before she died? Anything that might give us a
clue as to what happened? Sudden death is usually a heart attack. But the causes of the heart attack is so numerous I couldn't even begin to guess! She very well could have had something going on internally that you could not have possibly seen or known about. I really wish I could be of more help! I'm so very sorry you lost your friend. Its always so difficult to loose a beloved pet.but I believe we will see them again some day when its our turn to go to heaven. I believe they will all be there waiting for us! I just wanted to say that I'm very sorry for your loss. God bless.