- Jun 4, 2014
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Hi. I have ahem had a favorite chicken, Peeps. She was a white aracuana who was a little less then one. She layed everyday, small white eggs, although the other aracuanas layed green eggs. She loved getting out of her pen, flying over the fence, walking around outside of it eating bug and scaring my cats. They're terrified of chickens. Sometimes she brought a companion or two. Everyday we would snicker at her and put her back. One day I put her back 11 times, no joke. I loved that chicken and so did the rest of the household, but she was mine.
We have three pens all against the back fence. The adults pen is on the right, uncovered but it has a coop, shade, trees, and access to a shed. There was two ducks and 10 chickens living in it, comfortably. In the left pin is our medium sized chickens, they're going to start laying in about two months. It is covered, but chickens usually get out. They is about 12-ish chickens in it with perches a house at night. They're comfortable. In our middle pen there's our baby chickens, maybe 3 months? Probably? It's uncovered and a little bigger of a pen then the medium chicks. There's a house that fits all 28 chicks in it comfortably and foliage and shade. We feed everyone everyday, in the morning and at evening. We provide fresh water, mealworms, vegetable scrapings, bread. It is the chicken life.
Now the sad part. This morning, Peeps was found dead in the little chick pen, no sign of struggle, no disease, no blood or nothing. It's like she flew over the fence and died! I put her in multiple times yesterday like any other day. She was fine! Eating and drinking okay and eating bread.
If you had any ideas what you think happened, I would gladly appreciate it. I know it's a long post, but I'm sad. I don't know if an egg broke in her or my dog chased her and she flew over and died of stress I don't know. Please help!
We have three pens all against the back fence. The adults pen is on the right, uncovered but it has a coop, shade, trees, and access to a shed. There was two ducks and 10 chickens living in it, comfortably. In the left pin is our medium sized chickens, they're going to start laying in about two months. It is covered, but chickens usually get out. They is about 12-ish chickens in it with perches a house at night. They're comfortable. In our middle pen there's our baby chickens, maybe 3 months? Probably? It's uncovered and a little bigger of a pen then the medium chicks. There's a house that fits all 28 chicks in it comfortably and foliage and shade. We feed everyone everyday, in the morning and at evening. We provide fresh water, mealworms, vegetable scrapings, bread. It is the chicken life.
Now the sad part. This morning, Peeps was found dead in the little chick pen, no sign of struggle, no disease, no blood or nothing. It's like she flew over the fence and died! I put her in multiple times yesterday like any other day. She was fine! Eating and drinking okay and eating bread.
If you had any ideas what you think happened, I would gladly appreciate it. I know it's a long post, but I'm sad. I don't know if an egg broke in her or my dog chased her and she flew over and died of stress I don't know. Please help!
