Another update:
Came home this evening to find the hawk had been busy again--killed the one confirmed Khaki hen-ling, the bitty Rouen with the beak problems (why I bought him), one of the Brahma pullets and, of course, my last turkey poult, who had weakened himself looking for his friend. I caught myself searching for him in the coop, even after burying him. I have no idea what I'm going to do. Family is all telling me to give up and kill everything, pretty much. It's just too heartbreaking and expensive when I can't sell birds (or even give them away) and can't make any money selling eggs.
Just reiterating here: all birds are free, but may or may not carry M.g. (or something else which occasionally causes similar respiratory symptoms). Purdue is sitting on their butts about sending me the t12 test carton. It's advised new owners not breed them until we know, but otherwise, the worst case scenario probably still means free usually-healthy birds which may or may not get sniffles occasionally in times of stress. Many are laying hens, and many are rarer breeds. Assume everything is pet quality because you can't show them anyway.
Brahmas: four LB hens, three gold-penciled hens, several mixed chicks (most look to be silver-penciled "DB" or DB/LB). @chickrookie has claimed the DB rooster, but a beautiful buff Colombian roo is available
Cochin: pair of black Cochin adults. One lemon pyle hen. Numerous mixes. Hens are of laying age, and the black one lays large dark eggs pretty frequently when she's not broody (which she has been occasionally, though never successfully)
Welsummer: two laying hens; one's a second-time broody and looking to be successful yet again. Both neat, chatty ladies
Australorp: one laying hen, currently broody
BO: one full-bodied laying hen
Wyandottes: 2 SLW, 1GLW, 1 splash-laced red, one RIR/BLRW (all laying hens), one BLRW roo (perpetually has lice, is pretty good with the girls, but never seems to mate right). Pair of older almost-at-POL/breeding age DB/SLW mixes, both pretty quiet and easily handled, hatched in Nov or Dec of 2015.
EEs and other assorted mixes (few blue, some likely green, most brown layers). 3 cockerels of older nature that aren't quite done growing: the DB/EE is going to be a giant, from the look of it (like Wun Wun the DB, his daddy, but getting there a lot faster); there's also a DB/SLW and what I think is a Sumatra/EE cross (blue and gold, very neat personality, growing up gorgeous).
@jchny2000 has re-claimed Mr. July, a stunning black Sumatra who has sired several mixes here
Right now, both Australorps, one Wellie, two gold-penciled Brahma hens, and the RIR/BLRW are broody.
Who's Staying: One of the two Australorps is perpetually broody and often sick (because she takes such terrible care of herself in pursuit of motherhood), so she'll stay here because my youngest loves her. One BO hen has likewise been claimed by my son and has been ill in the past. Not claimed but still with a history of illness, an EE will have to stay. A pair of mottled Breda will stay because the roo is seemingly always ill, but may also be quiet by nature, too. He has been very slow to make a full recovery even under good conditions, and I think another move will stress him beyond recovery. The other certainly-staying roo is lame for the foreseeable future, but just too sweet and scrawny to put down. Major Tom, the MW, has been perpetually ill since his buddy Saphira died, and now that his little buddies are both dead, I think he's going to really plummet. He's very stressed--constantly displaying and spoiling for a fight, yet unable to give one, and his sinuses are already looking pretty horrible again since the first of the two babies died--and I can't risk him getting other birds at another home sick, which limits me to putting him down or getting him some company (which takes money and room, both of which I'm short on).
We're going to be working on a fence as soon as possible, but we're also tied into putting a roof on a new coop and fixing up our sons' room... and finals in college... and finding a new job... and possibly having cancer... and too many other things to properly enumerate.
