As I type SnowBall, my White Frizzled Cochin Roo sits on the floor in a box, clinging to life. This is about the fifth time this little guy has cheated death. He has survived two bad fights with much larger roos. I was sure I would have lost him in the last one, but he healed up and kept going. When he was well he went back outside in a new coop this time. All was well until we had very bad storms with cold rain and strong wind. During the night his roof was ripped off his pen and he got soaked to the bone. I found him laying on the ground, close to death, stone cold. I warmed him up with warm water in ziplock bags and a heat lamp. I gave him warm vitamin & water injections under his skin and some vitamin drops in his mouth. He once again survived. When he recovered I put him in a better pen. I gave him a girlfriend and he became such a loving little boy to his girls and a good daddy. Unfortunately one of the hens decided she did not appreciate him and started to pull out his feathers and almost gutted him from the backside. Again I nursed him back to health, he was a trooper all the way. He finally got better so I put him in with some different girls and all was well...........until one of the puppies came dragging something under the cage. All the birds started freaking out in their cages. SnowBall jumped up in the air a few times, smacking his head badly on the roof of his pen. He knocked himself out, and I thought he was a goner. He was limp, and kept his eyes shut, but soon he came around with loving treatment, although now his balance is hindered and I believe he has some mental difficulties. This time it has been so hot during the day, and I found my little roo laying on his side, hot as a cooked chicken- in his cage. He did not stirr but I could see shallow breathing and I rushed him to a shallow pan and started to cool his body down slowly with cooler and cooler water. I ran it over his legs and across his comb until I could feel the heat dissipating from his tattered soaked matt of feathers. I rushed him in the house and once again gave him my vitamin treatment and dryed him with a towel. I thought this was his last time and he would not pull through..........but once again he's proved me wrong. I don't know if he will be ok, but so far he is eating and drinking and gets more active each time I see him. I don't know yet what damage the heat may have caused, but he's such a fighter I'll give him every chance I can of recovery.....my Frizzle made of STEEL.
SnowBall in better days.............
SnowBall as he sits here with me.........
SnowBall in better days.............
SnowBall as he sits here with me.........
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