My mom grew up in the Great Depression and for many years they stayed on her grandparents' homestead. He grandma took care of the chickens and sometimes they 'just die'.
Thanks for sharing Eric, we've lost 2 for no apparently reason, except age... these two girls were 7yrs... found 1 on the roost as if she had just went to sleep and didn't wake up and the other came up by the gate to the house and looked as if she was dust bathing, and just went to sleep... Y'all be safe with all the rain coming today and tomorrow... many Blessings
Thanks. Yea, it is so strange how they die sometimes. They seemed pretty hardy until yesterday, then poof their gone. The rain is seriously hampering my work outside on the property. My water pipe trenches are still full of water and not pipe…..lol.
@@CountryLivingExperience we just started putting in a small vinyard, and what should have taken 2 days is still not finished - now on 2 weeks... however we've only got 2 more wires and the irrigation to finish, finally got the last of the plants planted yesterday... Agreed in the chickens, it's just crazy sometimes. Stay safe, happy belated Birthday, and so glad to hear y'all went on a vacation.
I found one of my 1year old Buff Orpington's dead in the middle of the afternoon. No apparent reason. Healthy, active flock of 13 girls. Sorry for your loss.
Glad you got a vacation. Things look pretty green there. Growing up we normally had about 100 chickens in a coup, and every now and then one would die. No reason.
Good morning Eric, As you know both my wife and myself grew up on farms. Sometimes chickens just die for no apparent reason. Bird flu is unlikely from past experience. When our chickens would die, we’d bury them in our garden for “fertilizer”. The same went for our rabbits, but we’d skin the rabbits before burial. We’d tan the hides of the rabbits and eventually we had enough for make a “comforter” for our bed. (After all my hard work, my X wife took that comforter in the divorce). Rabbit meat is delicious. Rabbits store their fat outside the their meat, so they’re very lean protein and the meat is naturally sweet. We haven’t started raising rabbits up here on our mountain only because of our mountain lion population. We’ve been thinking about building more hutches and raising them again. But we really don’t want to invite the cougar’s onto our land. Some of our neighbors further down on the canyon floor raise chickens, but because they’re further down, cougars are seldom seen. We built into the side of our mountain, so I’ve seen a few pass by above our house. Around the bend one of our neighbors have lost 2 goats in 2 years due to the cougars. Just keep an eye out on your other hens. Enjoy your day and Be Blessed Bro ! Doc
We had one that was about 1.5 years old who seemed a little 'off' and then I felt a squishy back end. We were butchering our meat birds, so decided to put her down. My husband opened her up and found that her intestines had dropped out of their place, lots of nasty stuff inside her. None of the other chickens in this flock had the same symptoms.
On one of your videos you used bamboo for the chickens to root on. How big of a bamboo branch did you use. Thank you. I'm very new to farming so I thank you for your videos.
We just had one pass away in the same manner a couple weeks ago. I came out in the morning and she was on the floor of the run. No sign of predator or health issues--she was just fine the night before. I couldn't determine what killed her either. The rest of our ladies are healthy and normal. We pretty much have the same situation with free ranging and diet as you described.
Sorry for your loss! I lost two chickens from copperhead snake bites. First one I was at a loss of why she died. The second one I decided to clean out the leaves in their run in case it was a snake. Sure enough I raked up a copperhead. Hope for you and all your animals it wasn’t a venomous snake. Be careful and always use a tool in areas you can’t see clearly because of brush or items. My little dog was bit in the eyebrow by a copperhead. Amazingly she survived but lost the vision in her eye. That’s my two cents. Have a great day.
I found a hen with copious amounts of fluids once. A 2-3 year old wynedote. My research leads me to liver failure. Fluid was bright yellow. Perhaps called water belly. Some people treat this condition. I hatch more eggs…
@@CountryLivingExperience keeping 20-30 (average) birds over 5 year period- I have an average loss of one bird about every 5 months for various reasons. I can usually notice the low battery light blinking but just let them live their best chicken life. Then I compost them. They’re all still working on the farm 😊
Congratulations on your vacation. I’m glad y’all were able to get away. We’re heading out in a little over a week for our vacation. We’re headed to NW Montana to start looking around the Libby area for land. In a couple of years my wife will have her certification as a chemotherapy infusion nurse and in 5 years she’ll qualify for a nurse manager in that particular field of nursing. The plan is to purchase the land and then save up the money for a foundation for a Meadowlark Log house. Meadowlark Log Cabins are owned and operated by the Amish and their main office is in Libby. Then we’ll have to save up for the actual house to be built. Once that is done we can sell our house here in north central Washington state, so we’ll be able to finish our home with the plumbing, electrical, cabinets, etc. I’m a WA state native and my wife is a MT native. I don’t want to get political but over the past several years I’ve watched my beautiful home state slowly die because of the cancerous communist liberals destroying our state, one city / town at a time. Since King County started an income tax for their county to support the people who choose not to work, Microsoft, Boeing and Amazon have relocated to other areas. Microsoft has moved into a small city 45 minutes from our home and our once close knit area has become rude intolerant and mean spirited people moving from Seattle into our area. Property values have skyrocketed, as well as our traffic, drugs, alcohol, homelessness, etc. The city of Wenatchee has told every property owner that the city Must know what type of fruit and vegetables that you’re growing on your own private property. That’s communism and it’s from Seattle. I’m glad that we’re rural and Wenatchee is a 30 minute drive away, but it’s only a matter of time when our county’s will adopt this crap. Furthermore, I’m 7 years older than my wife and not in good health, so I’ll probably die before my wife and I want her to be closer to her family and that we will have established friends around our area so that after I’m dead, she’ll have a good support system after I’m gone. We’re praying that our land Must have an existing year round working well, septic approved and utilities to the property line, as well as a county maintained road close to our property so that we’ll only have to plow the road to our house. Please be in prayer for us on this.
We lost 2 to coyotes, two to mysterious sudden chicken death, and one because she got her head stuck in the barn door when I closed it one night. Sometimes they just check out early.
We lost a couple in the past couple of years to phantom reasons as well. So heartbreaking and a bit unsettling to not know why … we always wonder if a snake or spider may be the cause🤷🏼♀️
@@CountryLivingExperience if your hens felt threatened I would assume you would hear them do the warning cries when every they saw something they thought was a "predator"(I've seen some chickens get spooked by rabbits/squirrels and some see them as food)...my two cents is it doesn't sound like flu because you would have seen diseased comb... One area is poisoned feed(bad fungus or toxic plants got mixed in?) but it seems true that chickens avoid toxic feed. I wish you luck but to get a for sure answer is a vet to do a toxic screen and to get the state watching may not be worth it.
💕💗💕🙏🙏🙏 Sorry you lost a chicken. Sounds like you had a well needed vacation. Always have to play catch up when you get home. Have a blessed day in The Lord Jesus Christ!!!💕💗💕
I have a black Maran that lays eggs, and the egg has a small hole in it. This just stated this is my first time with backyard chicken can you please advise why this is happening?
I had 2 chickens randomly die, bout a year old or so.. the same situation, no reason to have died. Maybe genetic issues. It's been a month and no one else has had an issue since.
Sex links r bad for getting water belly. But other breeds do too. Their belly feels like a water balloon. But sometimes they can have birth defects, say heart issue etc. And they just don't make it.
My mom grew up in the Great Depression and for many years they stayed on her grandparents' homestead. He grandma took care of the chickens and sometimes they 'just die'.
Yep. I am learning that more and more every day.
Thanks for sharing Eric, we've lost 2 for no apparently reason, except age... these two girls were 7yrs... found 1 on the roost as if she had just went to sleep and didn't wake up and the other came up by the gate to the house and looked as if she was dust bathing, and just went to sleep...
Y'all be safe with all the rain coming today and tomorrow... many Blessings
Thanks. Yea, it is so strange how they die sometimes. They seemed pretty hardy until yesterday, then poof their gone.
The rain is seriously hampering my work outside on the property. My water pipe trenches are still full of water and not pipe…..lol.
@@CountryLivingExperience we just started putting in a small vinyard, and what should have taken 2 days is still not finished - now on 2 weeks... however we've only got 2 more wires and the irrigation to finish, finally got the last of the plants planted yesterday...
Agreed in the chickens, it's just crazy sometimes.
Stay safe, happy belated Birthday, and so glad to hear y'all went on a vacation.
Hope you are able to get that vineyard done. I am still working on my new one as well. I have several vines still in pots. Thank you so much!
I found one of my 1year old Buff Orpington's dead in the middle of the afternoon. No apparent reason. Healthy, active flock of 13 girls. Sorry for your loss.
It’s certainly a mystery sometimes.
Glad you got a vacation. Things look pretty green there. Growing up we normally had about 100 chickens in a coup, and every now and then one would die. No reason.
Thanks. It’s an interesting phenomenon for sure.
Good morning Eric,
As you know both my wife and myself grew up on farms.
Sometimes chickens just die for no apparent reason.
Bird flu is unlikely from past experience.
When our chickens would die, we’d bury them in our garden for “fertilizer”.
The same went for our rabbits, but we’d skin the rabbits before burial.
We’d tan the hides of the rabbits and eventually we had enough for make a “comforter” for our bed. (After all my hard work, my X wife took that comforter in the divorce).
Rabbit meat is delicious. Rabbits store their fat outside the their meat, so they’re very lean protein and the meat is naturally sweet.
We haven’t started raising rabbits up here on our mountain only because of our mountain lion population. We’ve been thinking about building more hutches and raising them again. But we really don’t want to invite the cougar’s onto our land.
Some of our neighbors further down on the canyon floor raise chickens, but because they’re further down, cougars are seldom seen.
We built into the side of our mountain, so I’ve seen a few pass by above our house.
Around the bend one of our neighbors have lost 2 goats in 2 years due to the cougars.
Just keep an eye out on your other hens.
Enjoy your day and Be Blessed Bro !
Doc
We had one that was about 1.5 years old who seemed a little 'off' and then I felt a squishy back end. We were butchering our meat birds, so decided to put her down. My husband opened her up and found that her intestines had dropped out of their place, lots of nasty stuff inside her. None of the other chickens in this flock had the same symptoms.
Oh wow. That is very interesting. Chickens have a lot of issues sometimes.
On one of your videos you used bamboo for the chickens to root on. How big of a bamboo branch did you use. Thank you. I'm very new to farming so I thank you for your videos.
It was about 2” in diameter. Because hard to find, I just use 2x4’s on their sides now.
We just had one pass away in the same manner a couple weeks ago. I came out in the morning and she was on the floor of the run. No sign of predator or health issues--she was just fine the night before. I couldn't determine what killed her either. The rest of our ladies are healthy and normal. We pretty much have the same situation with free ranging and diet as you described.
Very strange. I now think mine had Water Belly (Ascites) because of that fluid in the abdomen.
@@CountryLivingExperience My wife brought that up too. I didn't inspect as thorough as you did so I can't say for sure.
Thank you ❤😊
Just a thought concerning your young chicken. Maybe bitten by a poisonous snake? Snakes do eat eggs.
Thanks for the thought. I haven’t seen any snake around but it is a possibility.
😢
Our Texas lakes love that rain. Mire today may 16.
Yep. I need to get in the garden before it hits
Sorry for your loss! I lost two chickens from copperhead snake bites. First one I was at a loss of why she died. The second one I decided to clean out the leaves in their run in case it was a snake. Sure enough I raked up a copperhead. Hope for you and all your animals it wasn’t a venomous snake. Be careful and always use a tool in areas you can’t see clearly because of brush or items. My little dog was bit in the eyebrow by a copperhead. Amazingly she survived but lost the vision in her eye. That’s my two cents. Have a great day.
Thank you for the thoughts about the snake. I will keep an eye out.
I found a hen with copious amounts of fluids once. A 2-3 year old wynedote. My research leads me to liver failure. Fluid was bright yellow. Perhaps called water belly. Some people treat this condition. I hatch more eggs…
I think your right. The more research I do, the more I think it was water belly.
@@CountryLivingExperience keeping 20-30 (average) birds over 5 year period- I have an average loss of one bird about every 5 months for various reasons. I can usually notice the low battery light blinking but just let them live their best chicken life. Then I compost them. They’re all still working on the farm 😊
Congratulations on your vacation. I’m glad y’all were able to get away.
We’re heading out in a little over a week for our vacation. We’re headed to NW Montana to start looking around the Libby area for land.
In a couple of years my wife will have her certification as a chemotherapy infusion nurse and in 5 years she’ll qualify for a nurse manager in that particular field of nursing.
The plan is to purchase the land and then save up the money for a foundation for a Meadowlark Log house.
Meadowlark Log Cabins are owned and operated by the Amish and their main office is in Libby.
Then we’ll have to save up for the actual house to be built.
Once that is done we can sell our house here in north central Washington state, so we’ll be able to finish our home with the plumbing, electrical, cabinets, etc.
I’m a WA state native and my wife is a MT native.
I don’t want to get political but over the past several years I’ve watched my beautiful home state slowly die because of the cancerous communist liberals destroying our state, one city / town at a time.
Since King County started an income tax for their county to support the people who choose not to work, Microsoft, Boeing and Amazon have relocated to other areas.
Microsoft has moved into a small city 45 minutes from our home and our once close knit area has become rude intolerant and mean spirited people moving from Seattle into our area. Property values have skyrocketed, as well as our traffic, drugs, alcohol, homelessness, etc.
The city of Wenatchee has told every property owner that the city Must know what type of fruit and vegetables that you’re growing on your own private property. That’s communism and it’s from Seattle.
I’m glad that we’re rural and Wenatchee is a 30 minute drive away, but it’s only a matter of time when our county’s will adopt this crap.
Furthermore, I’m 7 years older than my wife and not in good health, so I’ll probably die before my wife and I want her to be closer to her family and that we will have established friends around our area so that after I’m dead, she’ll have a good support system after I’m gone.
We’re praying that our land Must have an existing year round working well, septic approved and utilities to the property line, as well as a county maintained road close to our property so that we’ll only have to plow the road to our house.
Please be in prayer for us on this.
Thanks Doc.
I will surely pray that you can get that new property and log cabin.
We lost 2 to coyotes, two to mysterious sudden chicken death, and one because she got her head stuck in the barn door when I closed it one night. Sometimes they just check out early.
True. Chickens seem to randomly check out.
We lost 2 birds abruptly to cancer/ abdominal masses. They acted fine one day and were dead the next. The 2nd one we took to the vet.
They seem to die very quickly when they get sick.
We lost a couple in the past couple of years to phantom reasons as well. So heartbreaking and a bit unsettling to not know why … we always wonder if a snake or spider may be the cause🤷🏼♀️
Sometimes it’s a mystery. I will just have to keep a close eye on the others.
My 12 reds are still doin great. Thanks for the videos. Helpt remind me. Haven had chick's in yrs. Oh has to add. All farms have pet cemeteries. 😂😢
it may sound dumb but some chickens can get "scared" to death and just have a heart attack...maybe heat stress or predator stress?
No real predators here. Maybe she was stressed from something but I’m not sure what.
@@CountryLivingExperience if your hens felt threatened I would assume you would hear them do the warning cries when every they saw something they thought was a "predator"(I've seen some chickens get spooked by rabbits/squirrels and some see them as food)...my two cents is it doesn't sound like flu because you would have seen diseased comb... One area is poisoned feed(bad fungus or toxic plants got mixed in?) but it seems true that chickens avoid toxic feed. I wish you luck but to get a for sure answer is a vet to do a toxic screen and to get the state watching may not be worth it.
I appreciate it. Thank you
💕💗💕🙏🙏🙏 Sorry you lost a chicken. Sounds like you had a well needed vacation.
Always have to play catch up when you get home. Have a blessed day in The Lord Jesus Christ!!!💕💗💕
Yes! Thank you!
Everything looks so green there.
It is. We’ve had so much rain. More on the way today.
I have a black Maran that lays eggs, and the egg has a small hole in it. This just stated this is my first time with backyard chicken can you please advise why this is happening?
She could be pecking it. Pecking eggs means she is calcium deficient or protein deficient in her diet…..or both.
I don't know what I'll do for lunch
The chicken is all gone
And I'm hungry hungry
Sorry about the chicken, I’d think just natural.
Don’t we all love the weeds🥹🧑🌾
I had 2 chickens randomly die, bout a year old or so.. the same situation, no reason to have died. Maybe genetic issues. It's been a month and no one else has had an issue since.
I now think mine had Water Belly, also called Ascites. Something I had not heard of before someone mentioned it.
I would suspect water belly
Never heard of that one. I’ll research it.
Sex links r bad for getting water belly. But other breeds do too. Their belly feels like a water balloon. But sometimes they can have birth defects, say heart issue etc. And they just don't make it.
Now that I am thinking back to her belly and comb color, I think y'all are both right. I looked as some pictures and that is probably it. Thank you.
There is a sudden death syndrome in chickens…my chicken was healthy, active etc…and she was found dead…I checked her over and found nothing!
Interesting
Bird flu almost impossible-- egg bound likely.