Sudden Chicken Death

[Ejmaggz]

I'm so sorry for the loss of your girl

How green was the poo? Was it more like a stain on your bedding? Someone was starving.

It was really green. On the coop floor from pooping on the roosts. What do you mean starving? They were free fed and I gave them scratch at that time, and mealworms. I saw her eating and she’d eat from my hand. No way she was starving.

 

[SmiYa0126]

Did you check their crops at night?

My broody hardly ate, and once I saw the bright green poo I took her off the nest once a day to feed her, there were no more green poops after that.

 

[Folly's place]

I try to necropsy every bird who dies, if it's not an obvious problem. And we lost a six month old pullet years ago, who had a huge infected Fallopian tube. She was never going to produce an egg, just a congenital problem.
Nobody wants to have young birds die!
So sorry for your loss.
Mary

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

Sometimes just the body's stress of making those first eggs is too much.

I suggest the poo being different is likely unrelated. We all obsess about the details when they die of something we didn't identify. I lost a duck when she was a year old and I never figured out why. I often go over the random things I recall about things at that time. Truth is I will never know, and this obsession stops me from moving on.

Do get a necropsy if you can, some states have a service to help with that. Or if you are brave enough to do it yourself, others here can help you if you post pictures.

Please don't beat yourself up. You loved her, she had the best life you could provide, and so few creatures are so blessed as she was. We cannot make them immortal, no matter how much we try.

Love the others and spoil them in her memory.