I do understand what you're saying, but burying them is about as unpleasant as I'm gonna do. I appreciate your telling me about this book! I noticed, while looking it up at Amazon, that she has others, too, and our library has some of them, so will check them out tomorrow.
I'm not sure that I could actually cut one open myself, but I sure would like to know. I will try to take a look at this book, though - I'm sure I'll learn some other things as well.
We had a hen that was acting sluggish past 3d, but she's done this before and acted normal after a few days that first time.
Today, she up and died in my arms. I went out to open the coop door at 6am. About 1/2 the flock came out, and I left them be for a few extra winks.
About 9am, I went...