Our chickens died today

[Gypsi]

I'm sorry for your loss. I learned the hard way what a pullet could get out of or a dog to get into. I have a wooden fence, and I wouldn't trust it for anything. I have a chain link inside the wooden and I'll be darned if a laying hen didn't find a gap in the chain link so she could get between the 2 fences, then my own mini dachshund got her. (RIP dachshund, that was his 3rd chicken, he was put down, lovingly, after a walk and with me with him.)

I would put an INNER wall inside the run of the heavy guage cattle fencing, which chickenwire inside that to keep nosy little chicken heads where they belong. Or better still hardware cloth.


Good luck, and I am sorry. I'm on here tonight because one of my hens is looking iffy.

 

[foxypoproxy]

I bury mine in a shoebox and plant flowers on top of their graves...many people may find this weird but i am very close to all my chickens

 

[mendozer]

I just got back into town a couple hours ago and we buried them. Right now I find it silly that I was bawling but they meant so much to me. It all started with a random idea that I wanted chickens. 6 months, 2 coops, 2 houses, 2 hectic move, and months of love ended like this. I'm thinking of getting adult hens and just not naming them. I think I'm going to have them just as chickens, not as pets. Watching them grow up from being so tiny to seeing their bodies like that was terrible. Those dogs did it for fun because they wanted to. I won't raise babies again until I have a house of my own with no fear around

 

[lindseythefork]

I can't tell you what to do, but I know in this situation I would recommend waiting a bit before getting more chickens. It's still pretty fresh and traumatic. Get the dog situation taken care of first.

 

[mendozer]

definitely. That fence needs to be fixed, so I'm not backing down to our landlord over that. I was going to tell the neighbors to get one of those wireless collar system perimeters.

 

[okiedrifter]

that dog tasted blood...I dont care what anyone says you get more chickens he will be back...you know they are not going to take the time to retrain him.I have lost to many chickens to the neighbors dogs...I warned them once 20 years ago now I shoot to kill and they know it...I love my chickens not to mention I have a lot of time and money in them and no cur dog is gonna for sport kill em.....A good electric fence between you and them helps but you can bet you will be the one buying it....and a real nice shot gun....he isnt the only threat in the area....get a good electric fence to go around your coop if you have close neighbors cats like chicken to.....

 

[seminolewind]

Fix the fence. Order an incubator. Buy some eggs here on the auction. Hatch the little buggers yourself. Get attached and name them. You might as well enjoy the whole experience. You can't undue what's happened. Just learn from things that happen and go on.

In all my years of owning pets of all kinds, I have learned that I need to be more resiliant with chickens. I've had to deal with the fact that chickens have no defenses, and no matter how careful you are, some will die anyway. They've broken my heart a number of times. And because I love the little buggers, I hatch more.

Sorry you lost some girls.

 

[okiedrifter]

in other words pull up those big boy/girl panties and get on with life.....and get a really good gun....or thats my excuse to buy a new gun and eggs anyway lol

 

[Help_battery_hens]

aw im so sorry for your loss i know how you feel my hen also died yesterday

we buried her in the garden in her favourite scratching spot and we are going to plant a tree there too

 

[hallerlake]

I'm sorry for your loss. After you get your fence fixed, come to the Washington thread. We'll fix you up with eggs, chicks, or hens.


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