1 Dead Chicken

She was alive and running around one minute...

And dead the next.
(not an actual photo of MY dead chicken...who had the heart to go in and take a picture of her?)

I dread going out to the hen house this morning.
What will I find?

Yesterday was a day like any other.
All the chickens were out running free for the better part of the day.
I went in the coop around 4pm to gather eggs and a couple of hens were in there squawking and carrying on.
Nothing unusual there.
Around 9pm I went out to lock them in for the night and found her lying directly below the roosting bars.
I thought she might have fallen and broke her neck.
Farmboy says not likely.
The roosting bars are fairly low to the floor and a fall would not do any real damage.
She was probably sick and fell off after she died.
We'll never know as the rest of 'em aren't talkin'.

The circle of life.
I don't much like it.

xoxo,
Cindy