Sudden curled toes, what's going on?

[Snozzle]

So sorry for your loss! I understand what you mean that some people think they are there to just dispense eggs, more power to them for being able to keep away their emotions! When I lost my first hen to a domestic dog we found her in a heap just dead. I picked her up and carried her under my arm while hubby and I got the tools to bury her. I was fine until it was time to toss the first shovel full of dirt on her and I lost it, she was my favorite hen and I had named her. I won't name any more of them, but now I have an ill hen that has been in my bathroom for two weeks and she is the sweetest thing and I refuse to give up on her as she as stolen my heart! My chickens have become my pets, they all have their own personalities and are so fun to be around. Non chicken owners just won't ever understand, I get the oddest looks from people when I tell them about my pet chickens and how fun they are! Now if only I could get hubby to allow me to put diapers on them and run around in the house!

I am so sorry about your hen. Losing them to a dog is so sudden, you don't even get to say goodbye. I lost it a few times at work yesterday, but luckily I work with very compassionate people and I was showing the guy I was closing with baby pictures of Beaker from when he was only a day old and he said he couldn't look anymore, because he would cry too. When my boyfriend told me on the phone that he was gone I felt a lot of relief too, he had been suffering a lot.
I am trying to keep myself busy and am talking to peta about adopting a couple battery hens(I wish I could take more) and I also had in mind starting a group, in beakers name, that delivers local farm fresh eggs to restaurants in the area instead of buying the mass produced, unhealthy, flavorless ones from battery hens. Just a few feel-good projects to heal a broken heart