Our Beautiful Zane is Gone. RIP, My Angel with Barred Wings

[chloezoebob101]

AWWW!!! this brought tears to my eyes! i lost a rooster last week too!

he was my baby!!

 

[Lbrad7]

I have raised several thousand birds over the last 35+ years and I always try to keep on a clinical level but there are always those special birds that win your heart. They have those personalities that make them stand out from the flock. They are truely special and when we lose them it really hurts. I am so sorry for your loss....

 

[seminolewind]

I don't think you're insane, I'm the same way. We had a Polish roo named Eddie who got a head injury. He walked circles backwards for months. I had to spoon feed him and teach him how to eat again. He got better, then wasted away. I locked myself in the bathroom and wailed! Then I had his brother, Ivan. Ivan jumped the fence to kill the dog and got killed. My hubby cried every time he talked about him. We were so sad. But my silkie roo, Mushmouse, he devastated me. I get all choked up even now, and it's been 2 years. I know now he died from Marek's. We took him to the vet for euthanization-I could not deal with the deed. I don't know what it is about roosters. I love my hens, but why are roos so special? Maybe the bond is harder for them to give?

You're in the right company here, I know I understand completely that bond we form with certain chickens. Crazy? No, Passionate.

 

[speckledhen]

I have raised several thousand birds over the last 35+ years and I always try to keep on a clinical level but there are always those special birds that win your heart. They have those personalities that make them stand out from the flock. They are truely special and when we lose them it really hurts. I am so sorry for your loss....

I know what you mean. I realize that the more years we raise chickens, the more birds will come and go. It's either suffer through that or don't have them at all-I can't imagine a life without chickens now. I can detach from some of them, but this was really my greatest love, my sweet Zaners, I love Suede and I really like Isaac and I believe they are very fond of me, from the way they respond to me, but Zane was my cheerful sweet baby boy who always had a warm look and a wink for mama and occasionally would press his face against mine. It was just a special relationship I've never had with another rooster. We tried so long to fix his hock, fought infection after infection in that joint and we couldn't let him go after that; he didn't want to go, he really wanted to live. There are a couple of others I'll cry over when they go, Zane's girl Gypsy being one of them. I'll be sad when most of them pass on, but it will be nothing like losing Zane, not even close.

 

[tinalibnania]

I am new to chickens, but I love my flock already. I am sorry for your loss as it sounds that Zane was indeed one of a special kind.

 

[Suzie]

Zane - the one and only, there was no Rooster quite like you, you had no faults or failings - Cyn and Tom knew you through and through, and though your'e here no longer, in heaven you will run, free from your disabilty - with Ivy and your Sisters you will have great fun!

I am so very sorry to hear of the loss of Zane - he was unique and will be in your hearts forever.

May your overwhelming loss one day be relieved knowing that he was a gift from God to you both - thinking of you both at this very sad time.

Suzie

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

So sorry to hear this Cyn. I know that you gave him a wonderful life and he repayed you for it a hundred times over.

 

[DaffyDuck98]

Sorry for your loss

 

[littlethorn]

So sorry to hear about the loss of your special boy

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you. Still find myself starting to go to his cage to check on him. He was so funny. He'd come to the front of the cage next to the door to poop, then move away from it. He hated to be near anything messy and he rarely ever got poop on him, in spite of not being able to stand upright.