AldrichP
Chirping
- Feb 5, 2021
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Today my silver laced wyandotte was acting completely normal, later towards evening I went to put them back in their pen because I was going to go inside for a while and I’ve lost 2 to a hawk and have been very cautious. As I was putting them up I found her lying under a bush and didn’t think anything of it, I use a long stick to coax them into the pen and she seemed a bit reluctant to go in at first but did. Later when I went to close their coop door all my others had already jumped up as usual and were on their perches but she was once again laying under a bush on the ground. I thought it was weird but she gets bullied sometimes and will sleep somewhere else if the others bother her too mutch. So I picked her up held her for a bit and put her up with the others. Now at like 10:30 I go back there to check on them and pet them like I sometimes do and she wasn’t on her perch. I found her dead in the nest box still warm. Anyone have any idea what could have caused this. I inspected her, no visual injuries/physical signs of illness.