Tuesday, March 18, 2014

RIP Eddie





It is with a heavy heart that I report the passing of one of our hens.  Last week one day I went out to collect eggs and there she was.  Sad.  She had seemed so lively and full of life earlier in the day when I had gone out to toss some scratch grains for them.  Poor thing was just shy of her third hatchingday.

Ah, Eddie,  you lovely, rich brown eggs will be missed.

4 comments:

  1. Bummer! I've had that happen too, it's a mystery! I read somewhere that chickens often have catastrophic health failure right around three--if they make it past then they may live a really long time--but that seems to be the key age for things to go wrong. It seems to be pretty much the case for our flock. I have two turning five next month :)

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  2. It is a mystery when a seemingly healthy bird dies for no apparent reason. But I'd rather have it that way though than see one suffering from one malady or another. I know we all tend to try to "make them better" when that happens but I often wonder if it would be kinder to quickly put them out of their misery.

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  3. It's sad to lose a hen. I call it SCUDS - sudden chicken unexplained death syndrome. I just lost my Betty, but I am thinking she had a heart attack. Sad in any event.

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  4. I've lost some to worms too, where they get ill very gradually, then bam, dead, sorry....

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