I am so terribly sorry to hear that you lost your dear Joe. I love my roosters also and know how I would feel if somebody was to harm them. Joe was a very lucky boy to have you as his rooster parents and I'm sure he loved you as much as you did him. Rest assured that you did everything for him that you could and the last gift of love you could show him was to let him fly free.
Not now, but sometime in the future you will run across a scrawny, pea brained but utterly charming little cockerel and while he won't be Joe, he will make you laugh and before you know it, he'll have your heart. He won't fill Joe's spurs but he will grown into the empty place Joe left in your lives. How do I know this? Look at my avatar. That is Big Red. He died about a year ago from an infection. He was a lot like your Joe.
This is The Rock when he was just 6 months old

He was a scrawny little geek of a cockerel, and yes, he is Red's son. He's a year old this month and twice the size his sire was, plus, he's a total charmer. I swore I'd never let myself love another rooster.......guess what......
And it's safe to say that with all the love you had for Joe, and all the love you have to give, in time you will find another rooster. In the mean time, I share your grief and pray that karma is just to the ones who stole his presence from your lives.
Not now, but sometime in the future you will run across a scrawny, pea brained but utterly charming little cockerel and while he won't be Joe, he will make you laugh and before you know it, he'll have your heart. He won't fill Joe's spurs but he will grown into the empty place Joe left in your lives. How do I know this? Look at my avatar. That is Big Red. He died about a year ago from an infection. He was a lot like your Joe.
This is The Rock when he was just 6 months old
He was a scrawny little geek of a cockerel, and yes, he is Red's son. He's a year old this month and twice the size his sire was, plus, he's a total charmer. I swore I'd never let myself love another rooster.......guess what......
And it's safe to say that with all the love you had for Joe, and all the love you have to give, in time you will find another rooster. In the mean time, I share your grief and pray that karma is just to the ones who stole his presence from your lives.