My Thor is gone...The flock is lost PIC HEAVY

[kathyinmo]

Ladyhawk,
I thought of you and your boy Thor today. I was the only one home and I was outside doing some work. I was carrying a 5 gallon bucket of water and I tripped in front of the breeder barn pens. Though most of the chickens were out free ranging, there really were none of them very close to me. I sat there for a minute (to see if I had hurt myself), and I looked up to see my Jacob (Delaware roo) running toward me from WAY WAY across the yard. I thought to myself, what the heck, is he gonna attack me? He got to me, and turned his rear to me. He stood there and looked back and forth, back and forth, as if guarding me. I was shocked! I really think he was protecting me.

I do love that boy!

I have another rooster, Mr. Frenchy (I didn't name him!), a Black Copper Marans that I hatched from Wynette's eggs. We have a Lavender roo that thinks about coming after us once in awhile. He has "bumped," into me twice and my DH twice. Each time he did this .... Mr. Frenchy took after him at break neck speed! I'm telling you, I really think these two boys know us and try to protect us. I really do!

Here's my two boys. By the way, they are BOTH Alpha roos in the same flock (really they are!) ....

 

[Cetawin]

OMG how sweet is that? That is what Thor would do to is he was alerted about something...and he would side step in front of me while looking every which way. The only time he did not do it was when he attacked Severus...he just came around the corner and saw me standing there with Severus flared and charging in front of me...he just ran right past me and jumped on Severus. I had to grab him to get him off Severus...he would not back off from kicking butt. usually, he responded if I said "Thor No!"

I am so happy for you...that Jacob is such a handsome boy and looks like his daddy...I know Cynthia is so proud of him too.

Hang in there with me this weekend/week...the eggs get a final candle and go into lockdown tomorrow night late or early sunday morning.

I have 7 Suede/Smoky eggs and 2 June/Isaac eggs so I am praying for a new blue flock leader. I will take another Splash if that is what Suede and Smoky give me...but I think I would prefer a blue. Thor was really the only splash roo I really liked the markings on...I do not like splash roos much at all usually.

So keep your fingers crossed....for a sweet Thor brother.

 

[joletabey]

The chances are better for a blue, so I am thinking positively! With 7 eggs, you should get at least three boys, don't you think?

If you get a splash pullet, you realize I am going to pout for the rest of the year. . . . .

 

[Cetawin]

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Ha not for me. I only get boys when I do not want boys.

Well we shall hope and pray that I get TWO splash girls then...that will give you a reason to come visit.

 

[rancher hicks]

I am sorry for your loss.

Rancher

 

[Serrin]

OK, quick show of hands....How many of y'all here believe in the "Here After"? I do. Won't deny it! I believe there is something after this life. And that if we so choose, we can visit those we've left behind. This surely goes for animals as well.

Since that horrible day when Cetawin lost Thor, and really, we all lost him that day too, I have felt that something has changed in my boys. Nothing that would light my world up in big neon letters stating "Thor Was Here!!". More like a subtle change in their attitudes. It may be just wishful thinking on my part, but I dunno......It's kind of hard to argue with the attitudes of four boys who previously seemed to either merely tolerate me or simply accepted me as one of the flock.....

It's been nearly two weeks now since Little Red tried to take a panic chunk out of me. Brutus is even more inclined to cuddle up in the evenings. CB is pouring on the charm like there's no tomorrow. And just today, my beloved Chief walked up along side of me as I was kneeling in the grass to clean some of my mason tools, and literally snuggled up to his momma!

Is this all pure coincidence? Or has Thor had some influence over our boys?

I honestly don't know. The romantic side of me would like to believe that Thor has had a wing in it!

Then again.....maybe I'm just a crazy eccentric chicken lady!!

 

[ZepChick]

Cetawin ~

Gosh there's not much i can say that hasn't already been said. I, too, have read about Thor here on BYC and many of your other posts. I am so, so sorry for your loss. It will get a little better as time goes on, although I know you are hurting so bad right now. We lost our EE cockerel Mika unexpectedly last year, and he was my daughter's boyfriend, practically. We decided to give her her own account here on BYC in his memory, and her name is MikasGirl, so he will always be here with her. His picture is her avatar. We have only just got a new roo, as Mika was the man around here. We thought he would want someone to watch over his precious ladies, and cass (human girl).

Again, I am sorry, I wish I had the words to decrease the pain. I really, really do know how it feels, kinda like shock then grief....ugh, feel better and keep posting. When others don't understand, people here will

~ kim

 

[Cetawin]

Thank you ZepChick and what a wonderful tribute to Mika to give his human an account of her own with his name....how wonderful! It is impossible to fill all of the void left behind when we lose a special one, the best I can hope for is that I get a brother of his to watch over his flock for him. I will be content with that and accept the new boy for who he is...there cannot be another Thor as much I wish it could happen.


Amy, I believe the same. I remember several years after my grandfather passed away, his Gelding died suddenly. We watched the horse constantly the first year my grandfather was gone because they were so close but then noticed little subtle changes in him....the day he died he was fine and was fit as a fiddle...he merely walked around looking up towards the skies which confused my family...we tried to look up and see what he was watching but there was nothing but beautiful blue skies above. He walked to his paddock, laid down and died. The next morning at sunrise I awoke to the sound of horse and rider going up the rock covered driveway...when I looked out the window there was nothing there but the sound was. Grandfather and Targa went riding every morning, rain or shine and I believe in my heart that they were riding that morning too.

So, it would not surprise me for Thor to visit people I care about. Nor would it surprise me for him to leave a little piece of him behind. So, I do not think you are crazy or wishfully thinking. I would like to believe that he has shared some of himself with all those I care about too.

 

[joletabey]

With God, nothing is impossible!

Cetawin- two splash pullets it is! And at LEAST three blue boys to choose from.

Amy, animals read us more thoroughly than we know-it may have been Thor's soul, and I DO believe animals have them, even if they are different than ours, or it may have been Thor's influence on YOU, making you look at your boys a different way, and they responded to that difference. I know Luke and I had a heck of a time when he was younger; I was afraid and angry with him for biting me every day, and I treated him defensively, suspiciously. Then I decided I needed to change how I felt about him, and I started sweet talking him and telling him what a good boy he was- encouraging him and expecting him to be a good boy. Things changed -we are now buddies to an extent. But it was the influence of Isaac's relationship with Cyn, and Thor's with Cetawin that made me wonder and think- why can't a chicken feel just as much of the love you pour out on them as a dog or cat or horse does? And why would they not respond to it? In the perfect world to come, the lion shall lay down with the lamb, and is there any reason that our animals don't have a vision, if dim, of what is to come? And want it as much as we do?

And I firmly believe that an animal we loved wholeheartedly here on earth can be with us in heaven.

 

[Cetawin]

Well said Beth!