What did you do with your flock today?

[ValerieJ]

I let her go.

I donated her body to the Vet college. Hopefully Ruby will help other hens with reproductive issues in the future.

Thank you everyone for your support.

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I'm so sorry. I know it was for the best for her. What a brave thing to do.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Agreed. @MaeM , you did a above and beyond stand-up job with your baby. I know your heart is breaking with loss. You have my deep sympathy and total respect.
Time, and applying lessons learned helps the most for me. When I realize I have saved a baby because of previous hard losses, it fills me with gratitude for the sacrifice my bird made for the benefit of the others.
Be kind to yourself, enjoy the beauty of all your other babies. She knows you tried hard for her. We know ♡

 

[ForFlocksSake]

I let her go.

I donated her body to the Vet college. Hopefully Ruby will help other hens with reproductive issues in the future.

Thank you everyone for your support.

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im so sorry. Im just catching up this week but it sounds like you did so much for her and knew what she needed in the end.

 

[Nomadicus]

I let her go.

I donated her body to the Vet college. Hopefully Ruby will help other hens with reproductive issues in the future.

Thank you everyone for your support.

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May here memories keep you company forever.

 

[Nomadicus]

I got the new kids in a brooder. The eggs that didn't hatch I'm going to candle before shutting the power off.

 

[PopoMyers]

I let her go.

I donated her body to the Vet college. Hopefully Ruby will help other hens with reproductive issues in the future.

Thank you everyone for your support.

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RIP, sweet Ruby. Your sacrifice will help others.

 

[PopoMyers]

So, the other night I did a thing online. I pre-ordered They will be here the first week of March. 5 pullets each of white leghorns, a blue color pack, and dominant copper (darker brown eggs) from Jenks Hatchery in Oregon, so the littles will get here overnight instead of 2 days. The plan is to raise them to point of lay and then sell some of them, keep enough to replenish my flock, and have a colorful eggs basket.

 

[PopoMyers]

I was a little concerned that Ginger didn't poop much yesterday, nor this morning, and she only had a small, very firm one. When I got home from the doctor and errands today, oh my goodness! I have never seen a as big, or as smelly as what she laid. Laid, as in almost in size of an egg! Is this the kind that broody hens make?

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm missing a pet hen. She normally roosts on the porch with the other pets but didn't last night so I thought she went into the pet coop that she used to roost in with some of the other free ranging pets. She is no where to be found. I checked a pullet coop that she could have stowed away in this morning when their coop door was open tonight but she's not there. Either she is out in a layer coop of birds her age or a predator has taken her. She's not been laying in her usual spot to my only hope of seeing her again is if she went broody on a hidden nest. She is one of the RIR girls I could pickup and hold in my lap and hand feed her. I hate to pen the pets up in a coop and run but I may have to for their own good.

 

[ChicksnMore]

So, the other night I did a thing online. I pre-ordered They will be here the first week of March. 5 pullets each of white leghorns, a blue color pack, and dominant copper (darker brown eggs) from Jenks Hatchery in Oregon, so the littles will get here overnight instead of 2 days. The plan is to raise them to point of lay and then sell some of them, keep enough to replenish my flock, and have a colorful eggs basket.

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