MY BUNNY JUST DIED IN MY ARMS!!! Just all of a sudden! Fed him last night. Fed him this morning! Came back to give him some turnip greens and he was limp! I picked him up and dropped some water in his mouth. He didnt want it and then he just died. Just like that! Gone!I can't stop crying. My chick yesterday and today my mr marbles! What did I do to deserve this?
sometimes these things, we don't why, Praying God gives you strength for this difficult time. 
I feel just horrible. The past 2 days have completely sucked. Hubby's sister is only 21 weeks preg and in the hospital dilated 2 cm with some infection and is leaking amniotic fluid. My chick died another friend is n hospital in ICU and my bunny today. And hubby is super ill tonight. And has no compassion for anything. we r still trying to get out of this stupid house and tearin down chicken coop and instead of Savin the wood for another one he's burning it! And I'm so ticked right now and sad and erg! I just wana go to bed and start over. I still have to load up the dog pen and dogs and idk what I'm going to do withy chickens tonight! I need a prayer! 
at least I have y'all.
When you move birds to a new home or even sometimes when you switch their pen, the hens tend to stop laying. Now what is ready to come out will still come out, so it's not unlikely to have gotten that many eggs and than have it drop. They can take up to a month or more to start back up and with molting starting to happen early all over the place (from what I hear), you might not get eggs till spring, unless you light the hen house through the winter.Sbrooks: I'm so sorry sbrooks! Its hard losing an animal and beloved pet!
Anyway, we just figured out that one of our little Cuckoo Maran chicks is a rooster and my mom doesn't want to keep our current rooster. He has finally grown out of his aggression to people, but he is stressing our hens out too. It seems like he is being really aggressive towards our RIRs more than anyone else. It seems to be affecting our income of eggs though. We were getting about six eggs a day from eight hens until we put the rooster in there. Now we are averaging at the most three a day. We just can't keep him, because he is really stressing out the girls and we have people expecting eggs....
So if anyone wants a Cuckoo Maran rooster you are most welcome to take him. We are actually about to put some new bantam chicks out in our "baby run" tomorrow (they are coming from some friends), and since we are we need to move our little fourteen week old Dark Brahma and twelve week old Splash Orp from the "baby run" and move them to the roosters old pen (the pen our Cuckoo Marans were all in before they died). He was in with the new girls but we've now separated him from them.
We don't want any money for him; Just a good home with lots of hens he stays calm toward people. I mean he is a gorgeous rooster, but we are going to try to raise our little Cuckoo Maran Roo chick into a nice little flock guardian. We didn't have our other one from the time he hatched to now, so I think thats why he's not completely comfortable and nice. We handle our pullets and chicks so much I don't think we give them a choice not to be friendly.
