My nearly one year old Australorp died suddenly today. No obvious warning signs, the only weird thing was that she was sitting alone in the coop yesterday, not in a nest box, when I went out to put everyone up, but she got up and went to eat with everyone else when I walked up to her. I didn't think much of it. My husband says she was first out this morning. Anything I should look for with the others?
Everyone else seems okay, some are slightly overbred by our rooster, and we just finished treating another for bumblefoot (we checked her feet, they were fine).
She has no sign of physical injury or distress. She laid an egg two or three days ago. We're pretty new to this. We got our first round of chicks this past July, she was one of them.
I'm worried we missed something or did something.
ETA - one of the Australorps, we had two, laid an almost white egg today. Not sure whether it was the dead one or the one that's still alive. They're brown layers, not sure if that means anything.
Everyone else seems okay, some are slightly overbred by our rooster, and we just finished treating another for bumblefoot (we checked her feet, they were fine).
She has no sign of physical injury or distress. She laid an egg two or three days ago. We're pretty new to this. We got our first round of chicks this past July, she was one of them.
I'm worried we missed something or did something.
ETA - one of the Australorps, we had two, laid an almost white egg today. Not sure whether it was the dead one or the one that's still alive. They're brown layers, not sure if that means anything.
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She was so tiny, with a hurt leg, use got dehydrated and passed) 2 Anconas, Spot and Dot, the brats, 2 partridge rocks, Calypso and Demeter, from Greek mythology, 2 crevecoeurs, one of which died with an hernia crop, and one that we are still deciding on name, 2 buff polish, Cardinal and Princess Ley-a (egg
) , 2 White crested black polish, Kilo hen and Einstein, (eggstein) 2 houdans, Bumbke and one who is going to my uncle, and my uncle requested a large white rooster to protect his hens, so we got him a White Leghorn rooster names Hei Hei, from Moana. (he is not that bright, we joke) Our next order will have 2 golden campines, (
) 2 red stars, who can lay up to 360 eggs a year, and 2 Rhode Island reds, which were the first hens that we ever had, 6 years ago. We currently have another Cochin rooster, Jungle (named by my sister, who was 5 at the time we got him. Jungle was doodle’s brother.) a cochin hen, Jellybean, aka Jellybelly (she is plump, and likes PBJ, plus Jellybelly makes jellybeans), 1 Easter Egger, Jackpot, sister of the late Gold, 2 Golden laced wynedottes, Beauty and Columbus, and a 5 year old silver seabright bantam, lemon. The other fully grown ones are all 3.
