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So heart broken... lost most of my best Silkie breeders to the heat

post #1 of 18
6/30/12 at 5:10am
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came home to find.little lifeless Silkie bodies scattered all over their pens......... The water buckets empty. ......i just filled them up that night and they always have lasted till the next evening. I normally check them but had to go close on my old house so i was gone most the day. All those years of breeding.....of joy and love....... Gone. I can only think that some of them started standing in their water and their feathers absorb a lot of their water.... I just don't know. I've had some of these birds for six years or so..... I still have a few......nd my bantams beside them were fine...just the Silkies..... I just don't know. I really just don't feel like doing this anymore.......
My Heart is Broken... I miss you my Sweet Sophie Puff Diva Chicken....
Living and working on a Zoo farm - 300 plus chickens, fancy pigeons, Sebbies geese, turkey, crested ducks, peafowl, ornamental pheasant and ducks, Black swans, Egyptian geese, African Crowned Cranes, Emu, fainting goats, mini zebu, mini horses,mini donkey, alpacas, llamas, horses, 5 Great Pyrenees and a cat.
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My Heart is Broken... I miss you my Sweet Sophie Puff Diva Chicken....
Living and working on a Zoo farm - 300 plus chickens, fancy pigeons, Sebbies geese, turkey, crested ducks, peafowl, ornamental pheasant and ducks, Black swans, Egyptian geese, African Crowned Cranes, Emu, fainting goats, mini zebu, mini horses,mini donkey, alpacas, llamas, horses, 5 Great Pyrenees and a cat.
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post #2 of 18
6/30/12 at 6:09am

Oh, no, I'm so sorry! This heat is mean and nasty.
 

 

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~A dog on its owner's property is a pet; A dog on someone else's property is a predator~

 

 

Living the Good Life in the North Georgia Mountains~ Cynthia

 

 

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post #3 of 18
6/30/12 at 7:57am

I'm so sorry for your loss hugs.gif

 

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked ~ Bernard Meltzer

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked ~ Bernard Meltzer

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post #4 of 18
6/30/12 at 8:36am
I am so sorry for you. I am constantly worried with this heat
. We can only do what we can (and most of us more). But sometimes Mother Nature just can't be beat. You said you have some survivors....don't give up...they need you now more than ever.

Happiness is not having what you want; it's wanting what you have......author unknown (to me).

I LOVE my chickens! 

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Happiness is not having what you want; it's wanting what you have......author unknown (to me).

I LOVE my chickens! 

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post #5 of 18
7/1/12 at 8:21am

Very sorry to hear of your loss.  Heartbreaking.

Married to the old dude, 0 human kids, 2 horses, 10 cockatiels, 2 parakeets, 1 sun conure, 1 amazon parrot,  1 eccentric peacock, 1 gsd, 1 pet terrapin, 1 Blue Copper Maran rooster, and 14 world famous Jersey Giants!

 

 

Stan the Man will be missed.

 

 

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Married to the old dude, 0 human kids, 2 horses, 10 cockatiels, 2 parakeets, 1 sun conure, 1 amazon parrot,  1 eccentric peacock, 1 gsd, 1 pet terrapin, 1 Blue Copper Maran rooster, and 14 world famous Jersey Giants!

 

 

Stan the Man will be missed.

 

 

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post #6 of 18
7/1/12 at 8:38am

So sorry for your loss. I lost my favorite partridge silkie hen to the heat. The heat is a rotten thing.

Owner to a variety of chickens including Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, Showgirl Silkies, Motteled Bantam Cochins, Seramas, OEGBS, Marans, Frizzle and Smooth Naked Necks, Easter Eggers, Silkies of all varieties, Barnvelders, and more!

 

~SQ Motteled Bantam Cochin breeding project in progress~

 

~White Showgirl Silkie breeding project in progress~

 

~Sebastopol Goslings in Spring 2014~

 

 

 

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Owner to a variety of chickens including Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, Showgirl Silkies, Motteled Bantam Cochins, Seramas, OEGBS, Marans, Frizzle and Smooth Naked Necks, Easter Eggers, Silkies of all varieties, Barnvelders, and more!

 

~SQ Motteled Bantam Cochin breeding project in progress~

 

~White Showgirl Silkie breeding project in progress~

 

~Sebastopol Goslings in Spring 2014~

 

 

 

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post #7 of 18
7/1/12 at 8:44am

I'm so sorry! But don't give up, like kaybats said, the others need you. Bad things happen, but it's the best of us that can get through those things. I just lost my blue partridge silkie cockeral about 4 days ago, not to the heat though.

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14 chickens, 4 bunnies, 2 dogs, 8 fish. I am the ~Chicken Whisper~
My avatar: Cali, EE
My brother is Button Boy
I <3 golf!
http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/what-is-wrong-with-my-egg <---My page on eggshells & yolks chickens can lay.Check it out!!
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post #8 of 18
7/2/12 at 3:27am

That must have been horrific for you to come home to seeing your girls dead.    Of course you are feeling heartbroken, and you will be for a while.  Just remember, you did everything you could at the time.  It's hard with chickens.

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post #9 of 18
7/2/12 at 3:33am

duc.gif you heat!. sorry for your loss sad.png

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post #10 of 18
7/2/12 at 9:04am

I am so, so sorry.  Your post is an important warning for us - all of our chickens are at risk with this heat, and some breeds can be more sensitive to it than others.

CHICKENS:to name just a few cochin, orpington,  OEG  also have: mute swans, geese, and cats
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CHICKENS:to name just a few cochin, orpington,  OEG  also have: mute swans, geese, and cats
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