Poulty memorials

[Callender Girl]

What a wonderful story about a very special girl! You were lucky to have each other and for so many years!

 

[Cloverr39]

I've lost a couple birds over the past 4 years that I've owned chickens. My first ever hen went missing over the winter and I lost more than half my flock of a couple-month-old cicks to a mystery desiese (I suspect mareks) back in 2019.

One of my least favorite cases happened last summer. I finally hatched out 7 silkies after wanting silkies for many years. Out of those 7 I got 1 pullet. Her name was George and she was 13 weeks old. Our dog was an 8 month old puppy at the time. One day after coming home from a long day of work I saw the dog had killed her. I think she likely flew over the run and into the yard. After that she probably couldn't get back inside the run. I was so caught up in everything that was going on that I didn't notice my phone slipped out of my pocket and get ran over by a car. George was the first chicken I ever really cried over. I still sometimes get emotional when thinking about her. Thinking back on it now, she probably wasn't the greatest quality silkie, but she was better quality than all her brothers. She really didn't deserve to die so young. I still have her leg band along with some feathers sitting in a little box and I will forever miss her. I barely have any photos of her, let alone good ones. Ever since then I take a bunch of pictures of all my chickens even if I don't plan on keeping them, cause you never know.

I kept one of her brothers and from him I hatched out another single black silkie pullet (in my profile pic) that reminded me so much of George. They looked practically identical. I didn't end up keeping her though, because she was born with bent toes and I didn't want to breed that in. She was super sweet and liked to sleep in my lap.