I Lost my favorite hen today..

[RedHead]

First off, I'm just having a really really BAD day... I'm running on like an hour of sleep combined because yesterday my lab got into some cooked chicken bones, shredded them up and both the lab and the pug ate them. So they kept me up off and on last night having to go potty and my pug (12 yrs old) has a sensitive stomach so he was vomiting as well. Both dogs are doing fine now, but when I went to let my chickens out this morning, I found my favorite little Henny half dead from what looked like a possum or raccoon attack. She must've gotten locked out last night and I didn't see her anywhere outside in her normal spots at lock-up time, and she didn't come out of hiding when I called her, so I assumed she was inside. She always came when I called her.

She was suffering too much so I decided to at least ease her passing and injected her with some morphine and she's now buried next to Peanut.

I wasn't sure where to post this, so I put it here in predators and pests... If I put it in the wrong place mods, feel free to move it.
I just needed to come on here and 'talk' about it for a second, mainly just to get it out of my system.
I more or less just came to the realization that my baby won't be following me around anymore

I don't understand why I didn't hear her or see anything last night, with all the in and out of the house I was doing with the dogs.

I can't believe my baby's gone

 

[scratch'n'peck]

Oh that is so sad. I'm really sorry for your loss of Henny. It's always so hard to lose one of our animals.

 

[Chick named Lola]

I'm so sorry for your loss. That must be very difficult.

 

[gmendoza]

REDHEAD,



Heres a poem I made for my fav hen who died 2 years ago.I want to dedicate it to yours now:

Ive Ran Out Of Tears
By Gabriel Mendoza

Growing up I have ran out of tears.
I have ran out because of so many fears
All my loved ones dying within those years
I can hear them all,still voices ringing in my ears

They have passed on,no more pain they are in
This world was enough,then end..fin
to paradise or heaven they did win
then end of all things,of flesh,of grief,of sin

I often wonder when would be my turn
to leave this place,to began a new learn
or come back here to live again,to return
to live this life again,in agony and burn

I lost a friend today but i didnt cry
she was so friendly,but she did die
its a little lonelier in this place
But no tear has rolled off my face
Goodbye Baby, you I'll never replace
And your face I'll never erase
And where you will go you will fly
Look,there are tears .......I did cry.

R.I.P.

 

[Amigo]

Thats so sad.

 

[RedHead]

Thanks you guys... And Gabriel, that was a beautiful poem.. thank you so much for sharing it...

I'm hoping that at least one of her eggs that's under broody makes it, maybe I'll have her daughter to follow me around and keep me company. Should be on day 19 now and mama's starting to coo at the eggs, so I'm assuming they might be wiggling a little bit under her. I need something good to happen today, so I don't quite lose my sanity..

 

[Amigo]

It reminds me a hen we had named pecka. She was killed by an Owl three years ago.

 

[Okie Amazon]

So sorry for your loss of Henny.

 

[GoChick]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

 

[flowergirl60]

RIP Henry.