I just lost the little crested cream legbar cockerel that puglady (? I think?) hatched and I got from Janet - nothing contagious, just one of those chicken things where they have no symptoms but decide to not thrive. We'd been jollying him along for a couple of weeks, separated and under heat, wormed and Baycoxed and so on, but this morning I found him unable to stand well and I put him down (we humanely euthanize with CO2). We're MEGA bummed. He was one of the real favorites.
If anyone has a well-crested CCL cockerel they'd like to put in a good no-kill home, please let me know. I have two beautiful big boys from blackbirds13, who have everything I want but the crest, and I don't need or really care about the desirable light blonde color or unfolded comb, so I'm more than happy with a "cull" cockerel as long as it has a good crest. I plan on using him to make colored-egg sizzles.