A sad post to be writing for sure...one of our little Black Australorps died tonight. :( We noticed when we took the chicks out this morning that the runty black one didn't seem to be keeping up with the rest of the chicks. She seems a little...sluggish. Throughout the day as we checked on them, it became more and more apparent that something was seriously wrong with her. She wasn't moving around much, instead she just laid in one spot away from the other girls. Around 9pm I could tell that she just wasn't going to make it, and prepared the kids for what was going to happen. We were all really sad. When we saw her get knocked over onto her back by one of the bigger chicks, and her not be able to get herself righted, we knew the end was near. We put her in one of the chick boxes close to the heat lamp so that she wouldn't get stepped on and could pass peacefully. I checked on her at 10, and she was barely breathing and when I went in at 11 tonight she was gone. :( I took a picture (which made me realize I may be a little too dedicated to capturing our lives on this blog) and moved her box out of the coop. I emailed Matthew to tell him, and he suggested we have a burial tomorrow before he goes to work. I love that he would even suggest such a thing - he is such a wonderful man. The kids and I talked about how maybe we had been the ones to bring her home so that she wouldn't have to die in the feedstore, being trampled and pecked at. It makes us feel better to think we gave her as good of an ending as she could have had....rest in peace sweet little chicky ♥
