What do you do with your chickens when they die?

[Saaniya]

Whatever the case if from 1 to 50-60 flock who died in farms here in India they bury them or burn them

 

[Missys Chicken Ranch]

Sorry for the long post

Do not apologize. I like to hear your experience.

 

[Missys Chicken Ranch]

I lost my rooster recently he was my beloved pet and he's Resting in cemetery center .

I am sorry to hear that. I am trying to make my rooster my friend. Its going okay so far.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I feel like

I ugly cry too whenever I lose a bird. It always gets better with time. We’ve had 50+ hens over the years (7-8 years I don’t know exactly) and guess how many I have now? 16! And I’ve never had to put a bird down for any reason (I know crazy) and I haven’t really lost birds to disease either. At any given time we’ve had 5-20 birds. Almost all my loses have been from predators but this year I’ve only lost one witch is still very sad but is much better than 6 per year like (according to calculations) is what I’ve lost in the past but not what I remember.

I never like losing birds but i would rather lose one to a predator than have it languishing in sickness and me trying everything to keep alive and losing it anyway. Which has happened to me twice this year (once was a predator that it survived but then died despite my efforts). I always feel like such a terrible mess of a chicken keeper when they die slowly. At least a predator is part of the circle of life I guess? I don't know why but sick or hurt chickens just tug at my heart strings whereas the predators are generally quick and leave you a pile of feathers to mourn. That's probably just me though lol

 

[EEforMe]

I feel like

I never like losing birds but i would rather lose one to a predator than have it languishing in sickness and me trying everything to keep alive and losing it anyway. Which has happened to me twice this year (once was a predator that it survived but then died despite my efforts). I always feel like such a terrible mess of a chicken keeper when they die slowly. At least a predator is part of the circle of life I guess? I don't know why but sick or hurt chickens just tug at my heart strings whereas the predators are generally quick and leave you a pile of feathers to mourn. That's probably just me though lol

No, it’s not just you. We had a little Cochin that had been attacked by a bald eagle. We saved her, though she had many wounds but when we put her back in the chicken run she was picked off by a hawk within 24 hours. That was really heartbreaking.

 

[EEforMe]

Little bantam golden laced Cochin. Tiny little thing!

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I send them to the vet to be euthanized. The first, I wish I could have gotten her ashes back. She was my world. But it was just too expensive. We could not afford it.

The second, the vet preformed a necropsy, and I do not know what shedid with the body after. Probably trashed it.

I would have loved to bury them.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

The chicks we had that died we put their bodies in the woods.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

We once had a bird die while we were away, the caretaker disposed of the body. Probably trashed it.

 

[raingarden]

We have a digester barrel full of pine shavings where we throw dead birds, fish, ofal from butchering, old eggs, etc. It has a tall vent pipe that carries any smell up and away and allows in the black solder flies.