I'm so sorry about your girl! Dang - I hate SMCDS (Sudden Mysterious Chicken Death Syndrome)!!Thank you for caring AlNope, unfortunately not yet (actually it's poofed a bit more) give the drugs another day to kick in before another trip. I've decided that I am never going to try and celebrate another birthday!!! Had huge plans (even saved money for) to go to this huge fleamarket that is held this weekend every year. Tried several years to go but something always came up. This year was all clear and I was ready to go!
So, just in case I was going to try it anyway, this morning my other leg (the one with all the screws and hardware) let me know I must have pulled a muscle with all the hopping around. I did manage to hobble out to the coop to let the girls out at daylight so they could enjoy the early morning before the heat climbed back into record digits again only to find one of my beautiful Buff O's peacefully dead at the bottom of the ramp to the roost bar.
No clue why. She was 100% fine yesterday at bedtime. Looked her over. Again, no clue. No sign of waterbelly, bad crop, nada. Everybody else, as far as I can tell, are good except nobody would come down until I removed her body from the coop, then they all trucked out like normal. Since we're expecting record heat today and there is already an air quality advisory I'll have to keep a close I on the rest of them. Anyone heard of any asteroids, tidal waves, UFO's heading for northern Wisconsin? Just checking.
