Unexplained deaths

[Kristenaty]

I don't know what's going on. I was given four Rhode Island Red hens one year ago in November when they were about a year and a half. They were pretty decent layers up until a few months ago. On Saturday morning, I went out to check on the new chicks and give the older hens some table scraps and one was legs up dead under the coop. I don't know if she died Friday night or Saturday morning. Then, this morning, my son went out to look at them and one was dead right under their food. I know she was alive Sunday night. I haven't noticed anything that seemed off about them. No sneezing, no trauma, no hard abdomen. Are they just dying of old age?

x-posted in the Utah thread.

Kristen

 

[LeafBlade12345]

It seems a little suspicious for them all to start dying at once...can you post pics of their poop? How cold does it get where you are?

 

[Kristenaty]

It's been beautiful weather lately. 70s and 80s. I don't know who does which poop. We have/had four RIRs, two BO pullets, a BR pullet and five chicks we just bought. They all seem normal.

 

[LeafBlade12345]

Strange...I'm sorry, I don't know what to tell you. Are they treated for cocci? Are they wormed?

 

[Kristenaty]

I haven't worked them or medicated them for anything. I know they were bought from our IFA out here so I guess they received their standard vaxs. I keep telling the others to stay alive.