Two perfectly healthy hens drop dead within hours need help!

[MasAhora]

They live a good life! You bought a couple of less than perfect birds, possibly they'll have slightly compromised immune systems??? IMHO you're giving them the chance to enjoy life as chickens.
As Wryop Rock asked How long did they exhibit symptoms before they died?

If you were able to observe this it might help you with the detective work that goes into figuring these things out. Also, were they in an area with new plants growing? I don't know the enviro of your locale but it could be the season for a new plant or pest to come out or maybe some spraying was done or a new product brought onto the property that they have not yet learned to avoid? Sorry, no answers just questions!

 

[Jay2017hesser]

They live a good life! You bought a couple of less than perfect birds, possibly they'll have slightly compromised immune systems??? IMHO you're giving them the chance to enjoy life as chickens.
As Wryop Rock asked How long did they exhibit symptoms before they died?

If you were able to observe this it might help you with the detective work that goes into figuring these things out. Also, were they in an area with new plants growing? I don't know the enviro of your locale but it could be the season for a new plant or pest to come out or maybe some spraying was done or a new product brought onto the property that they have not yet learned to avoid? Sorry, no answers just questions!

 

[Jay2017hesser]

I have bought two dozen chickens but I also have adopted over another dozen and I'm constantly taking in dozens and dozens of chickens and putting them on pens several Acres away from my flock and I rehome them for free or a charge a fee depending on the condition of the chicken and how long I had to feed them and care for them and make sure they were healthy before I rehouse them

 

[igorsMistress]

So perfectly healthy means no symptoms before they died?

 

[Jay2017hesser]

So perfectly healthy means no symptoms before they died?

Exactly...I'm giving them corid...the only back I could find and as a preventative I'm giving the chicks in my house basil oregano thyme and rose Mary as well as my serama roo who runs freely in my house and sleeps in bed with me... He's like a dog...follows me everywhere and crows in my face each morning! My flocks bullied him and couldn't find a place for him so...lol

 

[Jay2017hesser]

So perfectly healthy means no symptoms before they died?

Pritty sure its Coccidiosis

 

[Jay2017hesser]

Youll need to do a check over on all your birds. Feel for weight loss, check very carefully for any bugs (lice, mites), generally make sure all look healthy. Check poops. Could be a lot of things that killed your 2 hens. Watch the others behavior for illness. You could check into sending your dead ones in for necropsy.

The others are actually happier now since the other two died...I feel like they knew something was wrong.everyone is 100% strong healthy and showing no signs of illness. During molt I gave my flock tylan 50 for a week to avoid Mycoplasma or and other problems because they had the sniffles but that was weeks ago

 

[Jay2017hesser]

Youll need to do a check over on all your birds. Feel for weight loss, check very carefully for any bugs (lice, mites), generally make sure all look healthy. Check poops. Could be a lot of things that killed your 2 hens. Watch the others behavior for illness. You could check into sending your dead ones in for necropsy.

I'm not spending the money for a autopsy

 

[Jay2017hesser]

They live a good life! You bought a couple of less than perfect birds, possibly they'll have slightly compromised immune systems??? IMHO you're giving them the chance to enjoy life as chickens.
As Wryop Rock asked How long did they exhibit symptoms before they died?

If you were able to observe this it might help you with the detective work that goes into figuring these things out. Also, were they in an area with new plants growing? I don't know the enviro of your locale but it could be the season for a new plant or pest to come out or maybe some spraying was done or a new product brought onto the property that they have not yet learned to avoid? Sorry, no answers just questions!

 

[lazy gardener]

Jay, the fact that a fair number of these birds had cross beak, and the one you pictured also has a wry tail (is this one of the ones that died?) indicates to me that they came from a flock that may have been malnourished to start with. (or bred from a bad gene pool) Unfortunately, if the parents were malnourished, the chicks already started out with one strike against them. And if the breeder had them for a while before you got them, and did not feed them properly, those chicks were doomed to a life of marginal health from the beginning. The cross beak makes it very difficult for them to eat well enough to keep their weight up, and even take in enough nutrients for proper growth and immunity development. How old were they when you got them?