Sounds like she wasn't eating for a while (more than 4 weeks since birth) and then when she finally did eat she wasn't strong enough to digest the meal and it killer her. I let my babies go 4 weeks from hatching and then I get them to eat a meal whether they like it or not. If you let them go over 6 weeks from birth with no meal you start getting into death territory. I think they get so weak that they cannot digest the meal and it starts to rot in their system which causes them to die. Very small meals will help this not to happen but it's still touch and go.

Sorry about your loss.
Corey

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