Young hen stopped laying for a week and died

[OrpingtonMomma279]

I came home to find my 1 year old hen dead.
She was a black star and has only been laying the last 3 months.

She seemed healthy and normal. I knew one of my hens stopped laying for a week or so and out of the two I have that lay that color she was the one that would no longer do her submissive squat and didn’t let me catch her anymore. So I thought it was her.

All other behaviors were the same. No evidence of pain.

I got home and she was dead. May have died around noon.
I can’t find any body harm or external signs. Her crop seems empty like maybe she didn’t eat today.

A clear-ish yellow liquid is seeping a little from her vent. Don’t know if it’s from dying.

Has anyone else have something like this?

 

[Oolala]

That's awful and it must have been such a shock to find her. I too lost a hen last week, she was fine and eating well and I would not have known if anything was wrong accept she laid a lash egg two weeks before. One minute she was scratching around with the others and when I went to lock her in for the night she was chocking and vomiting up liquid and died in my arms within five minutes