grracee Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 My Nan has a very small collection of seven pekin hens and very sad to say in the last 3 - 4 days she has lost three hens for unknown reasons. The first we knew about it was that on Thursday/Friday morning (sorry can't remember which day) she went up to let them out in the morning and noticed that two of the hens didn't come out so checked in the coop and they were both there dead, they had been fine as far as I know the night before, both on the perch with all the others, although my Nan did say the day before they passed one of them was quieter than normal. I thought it was very odd that both had died at the same time (they were two that we got together a couple of months ago). Then this morning my Nan went up to let out & feed and she found one of our new pullets in the nest box all floppy, so brought her down and put her in an isolation hutch but I thought she had gone past the point of no return and sadly, she died not long after. But again, yesterday/last night she was fine and was perched with the others at night time. I have told Nan not to do anything with the one that died today (she buried the other two) and I'll take it to the vets for a post mortem. Just wondering whether anyone on here had any ideas??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egghead68 Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 I'm so sorry to hear that. How upsetting for your Nan. How old are the hens? I agree a pm is a very good idea. She could also send samples from the remaining hens to Retfords for analysis and consider taking them to a vet to be looked over. Hope there are no more losses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grracee Posted August 12, 2012 Author Share Posted August 12, 2012 I'm so sorry to hear that. How upsetting for your Nan. How old are the hens? I agree a pm is a very good idea. She could also send samples from the remaining hens to Retfords for analysis and consider taking them to a vet to be looked over. Hope there are no more losses. Thanks, they are only very young hens. The two were around POL and the one that died today was only about 16 weeks so definitely something not right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
