death

I have a chicken about 2 years old who was still laying eggs and eating who just died. She has a history of repeated impacted and sour crop. I took her to the vet about a month ago for the sour crop and the vet mentioned that she might have some disease or deformity that could cause her to die...

My chicken is very old. But just a few seconds ago it was fine. Then I heard a sound I turned around and there was my dead chicken. I ran quickly to see if it was hurt, but I realized it was about to die. I saw its eyes slowly close and water running out of its mouth. What was the cause of its...

Hi, hopefully someone can point me in the right direction before I loose any more of my girls. Two weeks ago, I lost a chicken. She had a bloody rear end and was lethargic. Seemed like she was egg bound or prolapsed uterus - I kept her quite and separated but she passed anyways. I have been...

Hey everyone! This is my first post on the forum even though I've been stalking threads here for a few months! Sadly, one of my female Khaki Campbell ducks passed away suddenly today and I am trying to figure out why. The ducks are almost 5 months old, and they all seem to behave normally...

We were gone for the day but in the morning had no indication that our oldest chicken was in any distress. When we came back, we found her dead beside her first egg. She had what looked like an extreme prolapse including her intestines out. There was not a lot of blood showing at all though...

I was trying to leave the last friday and spotted a coyote who had tunneled under our massive yard under a 6 foot chain link fence and killed my 15 week old silkie roo, my son, and I made a stupid choice and grabbed a rock and ran it down, slugged it in the side with the rock before it could get...

Over the past 3 years, I have raised 18 hens averaging about 6-7 at a time. I have not had a hen to survive past 2 1/2 years and some only make it to 2. Is this a typical occurrence? They have all died from either internal laying (from what I can tell) and hold on for anywhere from 2-3 weeks...

A couple months ago, I moved houses. We made a coop out of a room in the barn that was used for horses or cows by the previous owner. All my chickens from my old house loved the new place and were doing just fine. Then, I decided to add new chickens. I got 4 Speckled Sussex and 2 Polish hens...

Ok here is my problem. I have or should I say had 19 healthy (or I thought) chickens. Within the last 2 weeks I lost 2 leghorns. The first one I thought it was due to heatstroke as it was during the latest heatwave here in Jersey. The last one happened yesterday (I found it this morning) and...

My Buff O., Flo, is an internal layer. She will be euthanized tomorrow. My question is: should I show the other 5 chickens her dead body before I bury her? I just thought it might help them adjust quicker.

i have 2 pekin ducklings, bonnie and clyde. bonnie is tiny and delicate and is a crossbeak and has breathing and eating issues. i was a mother hen to her, making her life easier. today i was holding them both earlier. clyde jumped over and pushed bonnie off. she fell and we picked her up and...

I went out to feed our chicks this morning (we purchased them back in the middle of May) and one of them was dead. She had no wounds that I could see. This particular chick has a deformity of the beak, which we didn't notice when we purchased her, but it was crooked. The top went one direction...

Hi guys, first time posting on here and unfortunately it has to be a sad topic :( I have had 2 ducks for the past couple of years but unfortunately this morning one died suddenly and i have absolutely no idea why. They were in the bath we have in the garden as it is almost 30 degrees today in...

Hey everyone. So this week I lost a duck to a fox when they were free ranging in the evening (not sure why it didn't kill all 4 of my ducks, but I saw the fox coming back shortly after) so since then I was nervous and I kept them fenced in in their coop. The one that was killed had seemed off...

this morning when I went out to open the coop to let the silkies out they wouldn't come outside. So I went into their coop and found our littlest girl curled up in her nest and she had passed away. our flock is really small (1 rooster, 3 hens - 1 of which is separated with her 3 month old...

Approximately 3 month old cochin bantam chickens bought as day old chicks at TSC 4 total have all died within hours of each other There were no signs of lethargy or illness. 2 of my other birds are now appearing "slow" and don't seem to move as fast as normal. There are no signs of trauma...

Last night I got home from work and noticed one of my three two-week old ducklings wasn't walking around. It was the magpie duckling which was the weakest upon arrival but I nursed her back to health. Her foot was curled up into itself and she looked weak. She has always been smaller than the...

Hi This morning our six chickens didn't come out of the coop right away, and didn't eat much when they did come out. They seemed to be avoiding one of the buffs. A couple of hours later the one buff was laying in the corner panting and died within the hour. The remaining five seem ok but are...

I ordered twenty six chicks of various breeds off of McMurray Hatchery's website sometime after Christmas. They arrived yesterday and minutes after being placed under the heat lamp I noticed several problems with the White-Crested Polish. One of them died after ten or twenty minutes of being in...