Matilda, RIP
Monday I went to check on the flock to find Matilda had passed away. :( She is the first chicken to get a name (she was immediately Zach's favorite, so I had him name her), and the first chicken we have lost. :( Though at the bottom of the pecking order, the other girls never really picked on Matilda; she was very sweet-natured and gentle (unless there were carrot bits to be had). She was also, somewhat contradictorily, the boldest of our hens, always the first to check out whatever new thing I brought into the coop or run for the flock.
She really was a sweet, pretty little thing, and we will miss her. She did at least have a good, happy life! Thought I'd post a few last photos of her. Here, Matilda (on the left) is plotting something nefarious with fellow EE Bebe Glazer.
(It was at least *not* the flu; it was something else [I did the necropsy and some chicken friends helped me affirm my initial suspicions by looking at the photos I took] that is more congenital than anything, and nothing we could have helped.)
Matilda, RIP
Monday I went to check on the flock to find Matilda had passed away. :( She is the first chicken to get a name (she was immediately Zach's favorite, so I had him name her), and the first chicken we have lost. :( Though at the bottom of the pecking order, the other girls never really picked on Matilda; she was very sweet-natured and gentle (unless there were carrot bits to be had). She was also, somewhat contradictorily, the boldest of our hens, always the first to check out whatever new thing I brought into the coop or run for the flock.
She really was a sweet, pretty little thing, and we will miss her. She did at least have a good, happy life! Thought I'd post a few last photos of her. Here, Matilda (on the left) is plotting something nefarious with fellow EE Bebe Glazer.
(It was at least *not* the flu; it was something else [I did the necropsy and some chicken friends helped me affirm my initial suspicions by looking at the photos I took] that is more congenital than anything, and nothing we could have helped.)