Re: Death of a Hen

From: nuele mersch (fowls_at_nuele-online.de)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:20:32 +0100

Joel <nospam@nospam.mil> wrote:

> Maybe I made that last post so long no one wanted to read it - but I'm
> looking for someone with experience who can tell me:
>
> 1. Would being egg bound account for my hen coughing up so much blood and
> dying, and
>
> 2. Would what I found when I opened her up - one whole egg, four full size
> yolks, two small yolks - be consistent with being egg bound.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel

Hi Joel,

no it wasn't too long a post - only what happened is so mysterious. I
can't imagine what would make a hen "cough up" such a lot of blood. I'm
almost sure that being egg-bound wouldn't, though.

In fact, when I read about the noise in the coop and the excitements of
the other hens, my first thought was an injury by a predator, but your
post-mortem seems to rule that out. Still the noise is striking to me,
because I wouldn't expect hens to get upset at the sight of blood, or if
one of them just quietly passed away.

Nuele (D)

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