Showing posts with label Chickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chickens. Show all posts

Thursday, June 19, 2014

When Your Pet Chicken Commits Suicide....

I was feeding and watering the chickens (9 of them) this morning and all was well. Thinking I'd give the omnivores a treat, I went inside the house to get some cantaloupe that had been in the fridge a few days. Upon returning, I spread the melon wealth around the back yard then turned to the "pen gate," as we call it, to offer the food - I stopped in my tracks and yep....
One of our chickens was hanging from the gate, just like the dramatized-version photo above. I walked up to the chicken (Blondie), gently grabbed her body and waited for her to twitch or something. No reaction at all; just a limp warm chicken in my hands.

After I disposed of the body, I searched for a suicide note. I found nothing. I guess we will never truly know what made Blondie do it.

No, I haven't told the girls yet. We now have 8 chickens.

Carry on...