I don't lose birds unless they are valuable or loved, it seems. :/
I've lost 2/7 PC so far, to various things---even my RSL haven't died off that much.
I usually have 1--2 deaths per year in a flock of about 40. This year I've had 8. Mostly predators except for the PC and the RSL.
That's the face I just made! :O
I lost 6 in the last month - 4 to predators that we know for sure of some sort - 1 to my teenager stepping on them and one to ... vanishing and no signs of it since.
I don't keep track of the #'s, my silkie pen has a few who got out of the pen and choose to live in the goat/pig area in a group of like 5-8 or so, 3 are EE females, 2-3 are silkies. Eventually, I may have to round the little buggers up, but they've survived from 6 week old chicks just doing whatever they want with the pig. LOL
that little black one in the top right, is the half silkie/half cochin my cochin in this picture, star, hatched this year and is raising. She's my rooster biter and my white cochin white-fluff's daughter.... lol
No clue who the father is, although I assume it's my black silkie rooster, mr. roo.
I don't really keep track of my silkies, I just pet them, snuggle and occasionally find a baby in there with them. haha
The ones with my goat, are still all accounted for, 1 cochin mini rooster, 1 tiny bantam cochin female, 3 full sized cochins (2 spotted white and gray, and 1 all black one.) 1 rooster cochin of some type that survived out of the 11 chicks I gave white-fluff to raise. Her daughter has been a better mother than white-fluff was. She lost all her babies over time, let them drown, didn't really pay attention to them the way star did with her baby.
I have 3 polish crested in there with them, dunno how they live, those things are dopey. LOL
1 RSL that came from a different strain, not TSC. 1 RIR that was out of our very first batch of chickens a few years ago. (she's the old lady in the top picture with the goat face.)
2 silkie roosters that live with them...
I have 1 white-leg horn (I think?) mixed in with my EE coop. I have my original EE rooster, 4-5 of his original girls left. I hatched 1 RSL/EE rooster, and 1 EE rooster that survived together and hang out with one of the EE hen's that I haven't been able to seperate from them to live with my EE flock.
I lost my 2 cochins, 2 of my sex links out of his coop, and then 4-5 that I was raising with my turkeys. I had another rooster/hen??? (unsure of sex, it was young) that my son stepped on and killed.
I lost 2 geese, who killed themselves this summer by getting their heads stuck in fences in 100+ degree weather and we didn't get them out before the heat did their bodies in, kind of a deal. I've lost a couple ducks, but that was it.
I lost one EE to some kind of weirdness, went out there, and she was dead in the coop.
I lost a few red sex links over the last year, from various issues, prolapsed vents, a horse stomping, etc.
I lose a lot of baby chicks, that I put out there with moms to raise, and/or stupidness during the juvie stage.
