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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: zeeteecee on September 30, 2011, 08:05:11 am

Title: dead hen-any ideas?
Post by: zeeteecee on September 30, 2011, 08:05:11 am

my friend has some pullets, not long been in lay and she found one dead with blood around its vent.  Any ideas what may have caused it?

ive not seen it but she says the blood is internal.
ta for reading.

Z

Title: Re: dead hen-any ideas?
Post by: plumseverywhere on September 30, 2011, 08:21:29 am

could it have prolapsed with an egg slightly too large for its immature vent and then the others pecked it ?

Title: Re: dead hen-any ideas?
Post by: zeeteecee on September 30, 2011, 07:03:32 pm

apparently not, the vet did a PM on it today and could find nothing!
There was another one in the flock with similar bleeding but still alive so my friend has isolated it.

Title: Re: dead hen-any ideas?
Post by: Rich/Jan on September 30, 2011, 07:14:11 pm

Could it have been an extreme case of feather pecking.  Rats are also a problem.  Hate it when deaths are unexplained.

Title: Re: dead hen-any ideas?
Post by: zeeteecee on October 03, 2011, 08:05:17 am

friend found another one with blood on the vent-Vet thinks its a case of bullying.....

Title: Re: dead hen-any ideas?
Post by: doganjo on October 03, 2011, 09:50:08 am

In that case you need to try to have them watched - the bully will whittle them down otherwise.  I've had bullying but they never went for the vent - always the head.  I split them into two groups, and again till I found the bully.

Title: Re: dead hen-any ideas?
Post by: Barrett on October 04, 2011, 12:54:14 pm

Hi ya, I had some that just died i had hatched them myself and just as they were coming to POL they just died It may be just something that happens some take to laying very easily and some don't.