RE: Tragedy on the farm - Massacre remains images within
I can completely feel the pain you are going through. Just 2 years ago, we had built up our flock of chickens to around 700. We had over 400 mature egg layers, laying beautiful large eggs every day. We also had 300 new broilers we were raising to put into the freezer and some of them we were raising for others. Then, almost two years ago exactly, we had a wildfire in our area that last for weeks. We were very blessed to have not lost our home or outbuildings, but we lost all but about 75 egg layers and 7 broilers. Even evacuated about 450, but the move was too much stress and we lost them. The ones that lived thru the fire, never laid again, and we lost most of them that winter to starving predators. It'll be tuff getting hit like you have, but it does get better. Learn how it happened and prepare for it better next time. We do this all the time. Constantly changing setups to work better for us in the future. Good luck. Check me out @myhomesteaded.
WOH! I remember the fire, 2 years ago was not good for the entire Inland NW. That is pure unadulterated tragedy losing that many birds. Thank you for the perspective! Good grief, 700 birds...
It really was a low blow. It hurt for a long time. We went from 110-180 dozen eggs a week to nada. That's a lot of time, effort and money just gone. It wasn't until this year we finally started getting more animals. I knew if I had moved back to Texas I would regret it down the road, so we stuck it out, took our time recovering, and now we have about 3 dozen chickens and a few sheep. Good luck!
resteemed!