2025-03-31 15:44 from Nurb432
Birds are funny. Like many, we have a couple of feeders. 
Mostly small birds like wrens, house sparrows, and finches in
this area. An occasional cardinal. All the big birds ( hawks and
such ) stay in the trees and dont mess with feeders..

Normally if you go outside or get too close to the windows they
fly off. UNLESS they are out of food, then they will sit in the
windowsill and stare at you in the house.   lol

 

 

( and i wish they were not so damned messy... )

 

Birds here don't depend much on us because this is a cereal area. They still gather around the hen feeder in the hopes some corn will fall out of it. Our feeders are automatic and designed so only the hends may eat from them. Otherwise we would spend soooo much money feeding sparrows and squirrels.

Well, yesterday I found one of the hens wasn't feeling very well. She was a bit lethargic and also had some difficulty walking. I did what you would expect, which was so set a small corral with boxes in my bedroom for her to pass the night - since weather outside is bad.

This morning she is really really bad. I don't think she is going to make it past today. Usually I place sick hens in a quarantine jail but I really don't want this hen to die in a jail. I left for work and let her stay in the corral. The bedroom already smells like a mixture of chicken coop and stable anyway.

My dear little hen is gone now. It is hard to believe I am suffering so much over a hen. I don't think she suffered much, so there is that.