For all you mystery fans here is a good one. I discovered this morning three pens of bantams with massive deaths. Here are the facts:
All was fine at 8:00pm yesterday evening.
We had thunderstorms last night.
Three pens of bantams with dead birds. The three pens are right next to each other in the following order:
- silver pen 1 surviving hen, all birds accounted for, (except a peahen that was living with them) 6 dead hens, one dead cock. Cock found in yard dead. 2 hens dead on nest where brooding. No damage except on 2 hens the ova duct is outside the body, one with an egg in. Pen net is down. No scattered feathers. A few birds with blood coming out of beak. A couple of birds are on their backs with there legs folded like the just fell off the roost. The peahen is missing and suspect she busted the pen netting cover off when whatever happened happened.
- blue/splash pen 6 surviving birds, one dead hen found in yard, some scattered feathers.
- white pen 2 barely surviving birds, 7 dead hens and 2 dead cocks. Lots of feathers scattered, no skin broken, several with blood out of mouth, several on backs like the just fell over, pen fencing okay.
What do you think? My wife is wondering about lightning.
