Sister Wives star Janelle Brown took to Instagram on Thursday to reveal that one of her family’s chickens had died by a hawk.

The 55-year-old reality star – who was married to Kody Brown on Sister Wives from 1993 until 2022 – shelled out $289K for a property in Chocowinity, North Carolina (via InTouch). 

The home is less than a 30-minute drive from her daughter Maddie, her husband Caleb and their three kids in Greenville.

Brown took to Instagram on Thursday to share a new video where she revealed a hawk swooped down and killed one of the family’s chickens, after recently opening up about whether or not she’ll date again.

‘So yesterday we discovered that we lost a chicken to a hawk,’ Brown began, adding that her daughter Maddie, ‘has this cute little flock’ in the backyard.

The reality star added that the chickens, ‘don’t have names, because I know better, and so do they,’ adding that they’re, ‘really well taken care of.’

Sister Wives star Janelle Brown took to Instagram on Thursday to reveal that one of her family’s chickens had died by a hawk.

‘So yesterday we discovered that we lost a chicken to a hawk,’ Brown began, adding that her daughter Maddie, ‘has this cute little flock’ in the backyard

‘They’re well-protected. There are these trees that keep the aerial predators out, but this one loves to get out, or did love to get out, and wander in the backyard,’ Brown said of the late chicken.

‘We discovered her yesterday morning and I’m just kind of sad. I’m like, OK, so this is the reality of my life now, keeping animals,’ Brown said.

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She added, ‘Everyone was so surprised that they haven’t lost more chickens than they have, because chickens I guess are susceptible to the predators.’

‘But a hawk got her, and yeah, just kind of like, OK, this is my life now,’ Brown said in the video, which garnered nearly 13K likes in nine hours. 

‘You love them, you take care of them, but sometimes these things happen, so, welcome to agriculture, Janelle,’ she concluded.

Brown recently appeared on TLC reality star told Oliver Hudson’s Sibling Revelry podcast last month that she wasn’t sure if she’d start dating again.

‘I don’t know what I’m gonna do. I’m not really interested in getting married again or even really dating at this stage,’ she admitted on the podcast.

‘So I’m not even thinking about, like, “Oh, what do I need to do?” Because I’m just like, I am over [it]. I am done. I love my single life,’ she admitted.

Though she added, ‘if something presents itself in the future’ to Janelle, she said she’d ‘consider what I need to do.’

She also revealed on a recent episode that ex-husband Kody Brown spent ‘lots’ of the family’s money toward the end of their marriage.

She added, ‘Everyone was so surprised that they haven’t lost more chickens than they have, because chickens I guess are susceptible to the predators.’

‘You love them, you take care of them, but sometimes these things happen, so, welcome to agriculture, Janelle,’ she concluded.

On Sunday night’s episode of the long-running TLC series, the 55-year-old mother-of-six said, ‘I never felt like I had much control over my own money because everybody was pulling from the same [account].’

On Sunday night’s episode of the long-running TLC series, the 55-year-old mother-of-six said, ‘I never felt like I had much control over my own money because everybody was pulling from the same [account].’

Kody was once simultaneously married to Janelle as well as three other women — Robyn, Meri, and Christine — but now, the father-of-18’s sole remaining partner is Robyn.

On the latest episode of the reality show, Janelle shared that the blended family used to thrive by pouring their finances into one pool. ‘We set our family up that way. But, like, toward the end, it was just really hard,’ she said of the arrangement.

She lamented, ‘The last several years, Kody would just take out funds and I don’t know what for. And the money was just being spent — and lots of it.’