So happy that you found one!!!! Yes I do believe that they realize when something happens to a flock mate. I hope she is happy with her new friend. I had a female rabbit mourn herself to death when a dog jumped the fence and killed her brother. I feel animals sense death and mourn just like we do when we lose someone. When I take my one duckling out of the brooder the other one cries for it until it returns. I pray all works out well for you.i found one! an 11 month old pullet, same breed! she’s not free but she is beautiful and i can get her probably by tomorrow ! yay! thanks God . I feel so bad for Stella tonight. She has to sleep all alone in her little 4 x 4 coop tonight . I can’t put her in the big house with the ducks because there’s no roost in there and even if I put one in it would be too high up and she would get the drafts from the windows, so she has to be sad tonight. I feel so bad for her, lonely girl. she was there when her sister died and she saw the whole thing. Do you think she understands what happened?