Me and my husband don't understand what could have happened to Henrietta, our Barred Rock. I let the chickens free range Sunday afternoon and she was just fine and running around with everyone else. She was alive and sitting in a nest box when I closed the coop up for the night. Yesterday morning when I went out there to do my usual chores, she was in the same place dead. What could have happened? She was only a little over a year old. She had crippled looking feet that she always had, so I don't know if she just wasn't very healthy to begin with. She had just laid an egg a day or two before. We were thinking maybe she might have eaten something when she was out. We just don't know. She was a very sweet chicken and it is sad that she is gone. When I had to bury her yesterday, I kept it together until I had to put the dirt over her.
