My beautiful, sweet, Sigmund is dead.

[hooligan]

He was so handsome, I am so sorry to hear you lost him.
Do you have any idea what might have gotten to him?

 

[luvmychicknkids]

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate it. I know I really can't/won't give up on chickens. I love and enjoy them too much. It just hurts so much to lose them. They are inside a 6' chain link fence. Whatever took them has been doing it right before they were locked up for the night (NOTHING can get in their house). The kids took it pretty hard. Especially my middle son, Abraham. Sigmund was his chicken and he loved him so much. I just have to put this pic I took a couple of days ago. Sigmund and Abraham were crowing at each other.

 

[Blondie]

He was a beautiful rooster!

If you have had 2 strikes lately, whatever it is will be back for more. Be careful!

 

[debbyluvschickens]

I am so sorry, I know it doesnt help, but I am. I lost 3 chickens to gnats a week or so ago, its rough.

Do you live near water? A few years ago I was finding my chickens dead with only tooth marks at their necks, and I hid out there and waited to see what was doing it and it was a mink. We had a big creek behind our house and I guess the mink lived there. Anyway it never ate the chickens it killed, just bit their necks (and got their blood I assume) I caught it in a live trap and took it off to the river and let it go again.

 

[Redfeathers]

I too am sorry.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

The only water close by is a couple of ponds....no running fresh water. I honestly think it was two different things, but I could be wrong. My other one just vanished. Not a feather or sign of any kind. My thought was owl or hawk. Whatever this was didn't even have the decency to eat him.

 

[WriterofWords]

I'm sorry for your loss, don't give up!!

 

[Dinos_rock]

I am so sorry.

My rooster "disappeared" about a week ago, but I wasn't as attached to him as you probably were to yours.

 

[Tutter]

Oh, I'm so very sorry.

What a difficult thing to have happen, and not once, but twice. The poor children, too. I know that you all loved him, and there'll never be another quite like him.

My children are grown, but they still talk about their favorite rooster, who we lost prematurely, from over 15 years ago. In fact, it's the main reason I'm getting a rooster in my chick order next month. My son wanted one like our Pablo so badly, that I agreed to it, even though my hens have been content without a rooster.

We learn so much from them, and while their lives, even the longest of them, are comparatively short, they make a huge impact on us. Your Sigmund was a rooster who made a huge impact on all of you, I can tell, and when the children have grown, and they still talk about Sigmund fondly, and your grandchildren know about him, your heart will be warmed by it. Honest. (((Hug!)))

 

[ebaribault]

Sorry for your loss.

Ed