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:-( ugh! I understand! I didn't think I would get nearly as attached as I have and when one of my older hens (about to be six months old, and one of my faves of course!) jumped out of the run to follow me, right next to the big dog, my heart almost stopped! I'm so sorry for your loss, and especially for your sweet child :'( maybe you could get a couple of chicks from someone for him to love on?
 
@groleau6 - If you can do it, or maybe your DH, it sometimes helps to autopsy the bird. You may or may not be able to tell what happened, but you will learn a little more with each one you do. Just a thought, some people can't do them. If it were a laying issue, though, it would be pretty obvious once you opened the oviduct.

ETA - Two great minds, TTMom...........
 
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I know cutting my hen open helped me. I learned she had not been laying for a WHILE. And that she had a ton of internal fat which probably caused her fertility issues. I know now for the future that fat hens have got to go, because there's no point having them. And I've learned that it's not mean to reduce their feed, because fat is really really bad for them.

She was also delicious
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Tomtom I am close to you, I am in Montevallo too. We however put her to rest in fire. There are too many stray dogs in my neighborhood. She was egg bound. I didn't even have to vent check her, I could see it. I probably could have done it myself, but my daughter may not have let me. She has cried herself out and she is sleeping now. Little hiccups coming out every once in awhile. Teeny was her favorite. She even asked me to keep some of her feathers to put in our coop scrap book she is making.
 
groleau6 said:
Tomtom I am close to you, I am in Montevallo too. We however put her to rest in fire. There are too many stray dogs in my neighborhood. She was egg bound. I didn't even have to vent check her, I could see it. I probably could have done it myself, but my daughter may not have let me. She has cried herself out and she is sleeping now. Little hiccups coming out every once in awhile. Teeny was her favorite. She even asked me to keep some of her feathers to put in our coop scrap book she is making.
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Poor thing.

My son was heartbroken when we killed "his friend". It was a little cockerel that we got on accident when we first got chicks. Mean little thing.... we told him what we were going to do, but when all was said and done he was pretty upset. He wasn't home when we did it, he did get to see and eat the end product.

Now I tell him ahead of time, if it's a boy, it's dinner... don't get too attached. Ofcourse, I break that rule myself (RIP foghorn... he keeled over, never became dinner). I told him we were going to eat meanie and he was totally ok with that. Ofcourse, that hen kept picking on the chicks, hence the name meanie (and probably why she was so fat... always bullying other chickens, not wanting to share the food).

We triple bagged the rooster, he went in the trash. Meanie's head, feet and guts were placed in the bottom of a planting hole for a fig I needed to move. Circle of life and all that jazz.
 

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