why chickens die

[chicks4love]

I am a first time chicken owner. I have 3 Buff Orpingtons, 3 black sexlinks, and 3 Light Brahmas. They were hatched may 1st and I have raised them since. They all are hens and have been laying for about 6 weeks now. This morning when I went to collect eggs, one of the Buff Orppingtons was dead. It appeared that it had happened not long before I got there. Her body was still warm. She had no injuries on her body. I was wondering if she had a heart attack or something similar. Can she have gotten startled and fly into a wall? Can someone maybe give me a clue?

 

[sourland]

Chickens do have heart attacks. Generally when this happens their combs and wattles will be darkened in coloration. Also a broken neck due to fright and flight injury is possible. At one time I raised ring neck pheasants and lost birds to 'fright crashes'.

 

[BantamLover21]

Birds can die suddenly from many things, including heart attacks, being egg bound, injuring themselves on something, or having some internal problem. Without a necropsy, you will often never knew for sure what went wrong; however, even with a necropsy, the cause of death is often vague. As long as no more of your chickens start dying, this is probably just a freak occurrence. Whatever happened, I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Birds can die suddenly from many things, including heart attacks, being egg bound, injuring themselves on something, or having some internal problem. Without a necropsy, you will often never knew for sure what went wrong; however, even with a necropsy, the cause of death is often vague. As long as no more of your chickens start dying, this is probably just a freak occurrence. Whatever happened, I'm sorry for your loss.

X2.

Sorry for your loss!

 

[chicks4love]

Thank you for the replies, it helps alot. I am amazed how attached I have gotten to them. I will let you know how the rest do. Thank you for the replies!.

 

[Back Yard Bean]

Aww! How sad

It seems whenever we lose one of our birds/animals/pets, I'm the one to discover it.

Hope your other girls are OK....