At the end of pizza night a bad thunderstorm came through here. When the winds kicked up, we think they blew the little meat birds' shelter around. None of them looked like they'd been hit by it, but we think it scared them out of the shelter (understandably!). It sometimes takes chickens a while to figure out how to protect themselves from the weather, and these little guys were pretty young, and very new to the big bad world outside. Plus, if they HAD seen the shelter as, well, shelter, that thought had been scared out of them.
We lost over 70 of them.
H thinks some of them actually drown in the rain. The rest probably had some kind of heart-attack. There was no evidence of any kind of predator. Most of them didn't have any visible wounds and the ones that did were most likely from after they'd died.
It was a horrible thing to see, and has put a bad vibe on the whole day. A couple days at home in the middle of friends, family and parties will feel good.
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