When a Hen Passes...

[Sally PB]

Does anyone cry? I did with Winston and assume I will when the other 5 eventually pass. They are just such fun and I love taking care of them...

Oh...and when you do bury them, do you just bury them "naked" or wrap them in a cloth or put them in a box?

Mine are buried "naked," and I do cry. Some more, some less. When I found my favorite bird, Sunny, dead for unknown reason in the coop last March, I bawled like a baby. When I buried her, I cried even harder.

When my other favorite, Pip, finally succumbed to salpingitis, I felt numb. I had known the night before was her last. When I buried her near Sunny, I wailed.

 

[ChickQueen77]

I have only buried 1 of the chickens that has died. the only chicken I buried was a friendly little runt that I called Little Red.

 

[tlcmurphy]

@Winston1 I want to say this is a great thread I’m sorry you lost your girl. I just lost my second hen a month ago and still miss her

 

[BigBlueHen53]

When we have a chicken die, or we have to put one down due to illness or injury, we return their body to nature, to the "Circle of Life." Rather than bury it where it would take time to decompose (and might get dug up), we carry it down to a shady spot at the bottom of our property and deposit it where Nature can dispose if it as She deems fit, and the bird's essence can fly away.