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Toxicology report sheds no light on Roswell chicken deaths
The sudden death of about 50 domestic fowls on the Andrew Wordes property in Roswell last month remains a mystery.
A toxicology report requested by Mayor Jere Wood was not able to determine a cause of death, Wood said Thursday.
"They said, normally, healthy chickens don't die," said Wood, who had two turkeys among the casualties.
Wordes, now serving a jail sentence for probation violation, said he thinks someone poisoned about one-third of the chickens and turkeys he was raising at his home while he had been away at a political rally.
Volunteers and friends have since relocated Wordes' animals.
