Witness something scary/heartbreaking today...

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Year of the Rooster

Year of the Rooster

Sebright Savvy
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Today at our County Fair while in line for a Pullorum Test, there was a young boy with some very nice RIR behind us, and I mean DARK ones. One of the hens didn't like how she was being held and started to flap everywhere. So the owners set it on the ground, it flaps somemore, then collapses and dies then and there. Was the most scariest thing I ever saw and a shame too.
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I hope the boy isn't taking it too hard, but I was scared that my birds would do the same. I hope mine are ok
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It happens...usually when the birds are overheated. The bird may have been in the cage for a LONG time before they were brought to the show.

Poor kid...
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Poor baby! I remember feeling horrible for a long time about killing a baby lizard when I was younger. I still feel bad actually. I hope he is tougher than me...
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It happens...usually when the birds are overheated. The bird may have been in the cage for a LONG time before they were brought to the show.

Poor kid...
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It actually wasn't that hot at all! And we just brought birds yesterday
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That's when animals could start arriving.
 
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Yes, but some people capture their birds at night (I do!) so as to keep the birds calm inside the transporters instead of having to chase them down.

Being a kid, he might have kept them in the sun instead of in air-conditioning, and with quite a few birds in the transport cage...the bird could have easily overheated. That, plus the stress of being handled...
 
I think I'd put my money on "stress" as being the culprit.

One day, a couple of years ago, one of my Buff Orp girls was in the flower garden where she knew she didn't belong. I was coming back from the green house with a load of dried gourds that I had tied together by the stems with a length of twine. They made a wonderful rattling sound.

Anyhow, as I approached Mildred, I shook the two big bundles of gourds that I had in each hand to spook her out of the flower bed. (This was in the days before I got smart and put up bird netting around the flower beds to keep the girls out) She not only got out of the flower bed, she did it in a "dead panic run". Dead is right. Less than 5 minutes later, she died. And it was a very nice cool autumn day. I believe I litterally scared her to death
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I'm still sorry Mildred! I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

So, my guess would be stress. It can do some horrible things to our wonderful feathered friends!
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Sometimes stress just kills them. I had a favorite Blk/White Serama hen that I raised from a chick. I was moving them to a bigger pen, she'd been handled before, and half way there she started flapping and then started rolling her head and then died. I tried to resuscitate her but could not............. it happens.
 
Yea, I was thinking stress at the time too or maybe the thing just had a heart attack?
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I don't know how old it was. The kid had some adults around him and they were the ones handling the hen while he was carrying his big rooster. *sigh* They seem so tough, yet at times they're so fragile.
 

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