What happened to her?? :...(

grasjm36

Songster
10 Years
Sep 23, 2009
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Hagerman, ID
This morning when I went out to open the coop and feed, one my my gold sex links was standing in the corner very still, closing her eyes. I walked over to her and scooped her up and she didnt move. It was like she was shocked and frozen? So I set her in a nest box and tried to feed her and of course she wasnt intersted.

I moved her to her own nursery coop with water and food and had to go to work. My hubby just called to tell me she had died. Theres been NO SIGNS at all. She was a little over a year old, free range, supplemented with soy free layer crumbles. Can an egg bound bird die that fast? That always seems to be the issue with those sex links.

I'm nervous I might have a bigger problem on my hands?
 
I had a hen die similarly. She just suddenly one day was gone - also shortly after i found her and picked her up. When i did a kitchen necropsy, i found her insides filled with yolk everywhere, and i assumed that this was the cause. Peritonitis.
 
Sorry for your loss. I can feel for you. I just came home today to find my Jersey giant hen (6 months) dead as well. She had even laid an egg today, no signs of illness. Just dead in the coop. Almost like she sat down, fell asleep and never woke up. She had yolk around her vent I think.... I assume egg issue. She was still warm. It can happen that quick!!! Sorry again.
 
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I unexpectedly lost one earlier this year. She was just a little over a year old and had no signs of illness, just found her dead in the run.
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