What was the cause of the death?

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I came outside today and found one of my hens dead. They are free range and about 3 years old. I don't remember the breed. About a week ago was puffed up and not moving much and her waste was a liquidly green. After a while she got better and was even going on the roost with the other hens. However today she came out of the coop and was acting like she was a week ago however she was not moving as much and her tail was moving up and down and she was kind of bobbing up and down. When I threw in a treat for them she was interested and went after it. Not even three hours later she was dead. This really sucks because I just lost another hen yesterday to an impacted egg.
Could it possibly be an impacted egg or something she ate? None of the other hens are acting strangely.

Thank you
 
I'm sorry you're losing hens. What do you feed, including treats? Could they get into anything they shouldn't?
We feed them this:
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I am not sure why its that much on that website.

For treats, (which we don't give that often) we will give them table scraps.

I can't think of anything they could get into. We do have a compost pile but, there's usually not that much in it except dirty shavings from when I clean the coop.
 

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