Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Hillbilly Hen]

fuzzybutt,

 

[chickflick]

greenmima!

So sorry, fuzzy! That's so sad.
Hoping for rain. Ran out when a black cloud came over my house and planted what I bought yesterday. Did give em water, but was hoping it would get a good dousing ou rain water.
Nova, I knew your touch pad did that, so no worries.

 

[chicken grandma]

Fuzzy - what happened!? I am so sorry!

 

[laura877]

Welcome greenmimama. Feel free to jump in anytime. Sometimes we go thread after thread talking about chickens and other times we are just talking about whats going on in our lives. Its a good bunch here.

 

[laura877]

Tragedy struck my

coop today, and i lost my pet hen and rooster couple. I may be getting out of chickens, i do not think that i want to go foreward with my breeding project without them.

So sorry Fuzzy. Don't give up though.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

You guys who have known me for a while have heard about the inseperability of my hen and roo, he was the lone survivor of a coon attack 3 years ago and she his first and only hen i could get of his breed, come fall. Come spring i started adopting him another flock, But to him the only one he payed much attention to was her, and she him. I never even knew chickens could be that way. He would grudgingly give attentions to the others, but it was clear that she was the one for him.

Yesterday, it got hotter than i thought it would and i found her in distress, and i revived her with a bucket of cool water and got her to eating and drinking again, and i was there this morning at dawn to insure that she was getting around ok. I had housed the roo seperate through the night, as i didn't want her stressed from his attentions, but this morning all seemed well and i spent much of the afternoon with the flock with them together, and all was well. She would not eat / drink or lay her egg without him, and they both got distressed when i tried to seperate them.

This evening, however, while i was seperating and putting them all away, the rooster got ahold of her and she had a heart attack on the spot. As he was the cause of her death, and the inseperability of them i had a difficult decision, and i chose to bury him with her. These two are the reason i have stuck with chickens, so it has hit me harder than the losses i have faced before.

 

[chicken grandma]

So sorry Fuzzy. Don't give up though.

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[fuzzybutt love]

I will keep all your well wishes in mind, but this is hard for me, especially right now. For the last 3 years he, she,and i have done everything together,and it was because of them that i wanted to breed a flock of their blood. I may continue, but it is going to take some soul searching, that is for sure.

To some they are just chickens, and to some they are a dream, but to me they were friends, and many an afternoon were spent with the two of them perched on my lap, it will be a while before i will be able to hold another and not feel the pain. To me they were as close as any dog could ever be.

 

[chicken grandma]

Fuzzy - did you lose 3 chickens?

 

[NovaAman]

No CG, just the couple...