This afternoon, when I went out to the coop to collect eggs (I hadn't done so in a couple days), I found one of my three Sebright hens laying in a nest box, frozen solid and dead. The past couple nights had been in single digits, and thinking that since they were all fullgrown now, that they could handle the cold without a heat lamp. Unfortunately, I was wrong. I brought her inside and tried to warm her up, incase she was still clinging to life. She did not wake up and was truly gone. I blame myself for this for not taking proper care of them. Being a busy high school student has its downfalls I guess... I called my parents as they weren't home. My stupid dad decides to tell me that if she had died of cold that all of them would have... what an idiot. Has he not heard of Natural Selection? Jeez.... I feel like a failure now.. Today we will be putting up the heat lamp so we do not lose more. I still remember only a few days ago she was begging me for treats out in the run
This is the first bird i've lost in the whole year that I've had my birds and hopefully it will be the last
