Uterus coming out of vent

[5lovelyhens]

Thanks you guys. One more question, my mom said she heard her flapping around, and then when she went to check, she had passed. Do chickens have little seizures or something right before they die? I also noticed some liquid on the ground below her beak and on her beak. Just a clear liquid. What was that?

 

[rebrascora]

Hi
Yes it can be quite normal for them to convulse before and even after death. The liquid will just be fluid that has refluxed from the crop during that seizure. I did read one person of some experience saying that every hen she had ever lost had flapped it's wings as it died and she took comfort in the thought that it was the chicken's soul leaving the body and flying off to heaven. I'm not personally a believer, but if it gives comfort to people, then I think it is a nice thought. X

 

[Eggcessive]

I have seen this same behavior in dying hens. I had a hen who was dying of what later was found to be a gizzard impaction, and as I held her she flapped, and even had a twisted neck, then her crop contents came out as she died. I had just checked her for being egg bound, and she just died. It is just neurological symptoms of a lack of oxygen to the brain or sepsis.