Whole flock gone

[talliejo]

I just got a new chicken encyclopedia and learned that green onions can cause sudden death. Was this something they could have gotten into?

 

[BecksNesting]

Could it be there wasn't enough air circulating within the coop to keep the ammonia from building up?

 

[user605178]

Hello. I am looking to see of anyone might have a clue to our mystery. Yesterday evening we went out to the coop to collect eggs and all 12 hens and our 1 rooster were dead in the coop. None of them in the run. They were all on one side of the coop and it was the strangest thing. No indication of a predator. They're all different ages, the oldest being 3 years and the youngest not even a year.

They had stopped laying for several months, so we added in black sunflower oil seeds, all stock sweet feed, and catfish food pellets. Within 2 days they started laying again. This was a little over a week ago. My thought initially is if it were poison, then wouldn't they be scattered through out the run and the coop?..and they all died the same afternoon... any thoughts?

 

[user605178]

Your feed may be the problem put a magnet in it to make sure it doesn't have metal in it .and chickens cannot eat ground Cobb it suffocate them

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Your feed may be the problem put a magnet in it to make sure it doesn't have metal in it .and chickens cannot eat ground Cobb it suffocate them

What is ground Cobb?

 

[Lizmarie3242]

Could it have possibly been too much protein alltogether?

 

[user605178]

What is ground Cobb?

It's where you grind the corn Cobb with the corn

 

[user605178]

Could it have possibly been too much protein alltogether?

I've known of people giving cat food to them to make them lay I wouldn't recommend it but it's like 30 percent protein and it never killed them so no idont think so

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It's where you grind the corn Cobb with the corn

Well, that's a new one I've not heard yet.

Still not sure why this thread keeps popping up to the top and getting revisited.

The thread is going on 10 days old now, the OP has not been on in 10 days and without diagnostics or an update from the OP, there's no way to know what happened.

 

[Burkhead Holler Ranch]

Hello. I am looking to see of anyone might have a clue to our mystery. Yesterday evening we went out to the coop to collect eggs and all 12 hens and our 1 rooster were dead in the coop. None of them in the run. They were all on one side of the coop and it was the strangest thing. No indication of a predator. They're all different ages, the oldest being 3 years and the youngest not even a year.

They had stopped laying for several months, so we added in black sunflower oil seeds, all stock sweet feed, and catfish food pellets. Within 2 days they started laying again. This was a little over a week ago. My thought initially is if it were poison, then wouldn't they be scattered through out the run and the coop?..and they all died the same afternoon... any thoughts?

My thought would also be some type of air pollution. Either the ammonia or cabon dioxide if the coop wasn't ventilated properly. Otherwise, I have no clue. That is hard to explain because even if something attacked them I couldn't imagine it killing all of them in a small location and not eating any of them. I hope you figure it out!