[yellowpenguin]

We have two Welsummers, Ann and Alice. Ann has been in the coop all day, so I have bought her out, but she is just laying where I put her. They have both been laying daily lately. One of them laid today but unsure which. No eggs in nestbox, so she does not appear to be broody. Are they broody even if no eggs present ?

[PaulineM]

Hi
I'm not that experienced with sickness but I have some experience with broodiness.
When she is sitting down is she spread out more than normal? Also when you go near her is she more agressive than normal? another sure sign is if you lift her up and check her breast if she is really really broody she will have pulled out her breast feathers and will resemble something oven ready 

[yellowpenguin]

Hi Pauline

She is not aggressive in any way at all. She just seems out of it to me. She is more puffed up than usual but certainly not animated. Crop seems fine, and she has had water that I syringed in with no ill effect.

[themagicaltoad1]

She sounds broody to me. They don't have to have eggs under them to stay broody, but she will sit on anyone else's egg if she sees one. Mine just stay where I plonk them when I take them out, after a few minutes they get the hint and wander off for some food then back into the coop.

[yellowpenguin]

I hope this is the case, but she did not even try to move back to the coop, and seems uniterested in food. See how she is in the morning.

[yellowpenguin]

She was dead this morning 

[SurreyLass]

Oh no Yellowpenguin, how sad.
So sorry for you

[Helenaj]

Oh Yellowpenguin, so sorry to hear Ann has died, it's heartbreaking when it happens.

[yellowpenguin]

Strange as there was nothing you could pin down, no runny pooh or vomiting, just a quick demise. That was Anne in the picture.