My heart hurts.
I found out what happened to my poor missing pullet.
I was cleaning up around the paddock. It has been too wet and miserable to do much of anything recently. Well, on really cold days, my FIL will take any shallow pan or dish he could find and fill it with warm water for the birds. One of them was a black plastic dishpan like this.
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Well I picked up the upturned dishpan, and the poor little pullet was underneath, dead. She got trapped underneath and I assume she either died of cold the first night, or dehydration.
I feel so horrible. I didn't realize that something so light could be a danger to my birds.
I feel so sick about it.