Original post from 2025 Sad news today. Little Athena chicken passed away quietly in the night. No warning. No visible signs of illness. She simply never woke up. Those are the losses that hit the hardest — the ones you don’t see coming. Athena wasn’t demanding attention, wasn’t obviously unwell, wasn’t drawing concern to herself.Continue reading “Suffering in Silence”
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Positive vibes only!
Another old post – Summer 2023 Cobweb has been ailing for quite some time now. She was always an inordinately hefty hen — solid, reassuringly weighty in the hand, the sort of bird you never worried about. Then, slowly, that changed. After a couple of bouts of sour crop, the weight began to fall awayContinue reading “Positive vibes only!”