One of my three original girls, Houdini, was missing this morning. I had thought all three of them were in the coop when I closed up last night, but apparently she wasn't. When I went to let the girls out this morning, only her two sisters were in there. After a walk around the house and through the barns, I found her. She apparently had climbed up on one of the tractors in the shed and gotten her head stuck trying to get down and strangled herself. Her neck was definitely broken, so I hope it was quick and she didn't struggle much. She was definitely our most rambuncious, curious, crazy chicken, always into everything, so it doesn't really surprise me that she went out this way. RIP Houdini, you were one wonderful, silly chicken.
The thing that's killing me right now, her other two sisters are wondering aimlessly in the front yard calling and calling for her. They are usually very, very quiet chickens, she was definitely the loudmouth, so its really tugging at my heart strings.
The thing that's killing me right now, her other two sisters are wondering aimlessly in the front yard calling and calling for her. They are usually very, very quiet chickens, she was definitely the loudmouth, so its really tugging at my heart strings.