One of the Pearl White Leghorn hens died. A quick examination revealed an egg stuck in her vent. For lack of any other evidence, I have ruled the cause of death to be “complications from becoming egg-bound.”
That hen had particularly messy feathers on her backside for a couple of weeks before she died. Perhaps she was breaking eggs during delivery and getting her feathers messy from it.
The picture is of a different hen of the same breed. Unfortunately, she refused to pose anywhere but in front of the messiest section of the coop wall.
