R.I.P. Post pics of your lost & loved birds here.

[OrpingtonManor]

Last Sunday, I lost my BO, Paris. She had been sick for nearly 6 weeks, mostly living in the house, and I had just taken her to the vet that Saturday. She was not getting better. It was a beautiful day, nearly sunset. I wrapped her in a towel and took her outside to see her girlfriends. They came over and chirped at her, then went about their business. Less than 15 minutes later, she convulsed in my arms and died. She is buried under the liquidambar tree where she loved to dirt bathe.

Here she is when she was big and healthy.

Here she is just two weeks ago, feeling a little better for a moment.

 

[Lunachick]

Orpie. I remember her thread. It's hard isn't it? That's why we need to remember them. She's beautiful.

 

[Serrin]

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Oh Orpi!

I'm so sorry for your loss. Especially as it brings back the recent loss of my own Gimpy Girl. She too was a beautiful BO. Your Paris could be a twin to my Gimpy.

I still have her sister, but believe me, she's no Gimpy! Absolute opposite!

She won't come to cuddle like Gimpy did, and basically doesn't want anything to do with me. That just makes the loss of Gimpy all that much harder to take. I see FussyButt every day and every day she reminds me of that loss.

I hope you can take some measure of comfort in knowing you did everything you could for Paris. I'm sure that where ever she is now, she knows how much you loved her and cared for her.

 

[ranchhand]

My little buddy Cock-a-Leekie, aka Cal, who died from neurological damage cause by eating some moldy feed. He was a Golden Sebrite-Buff Cochin cross, bantam both sides. Nice little roo, he's the one in the back, with the darker feathering.

 

[OrpingtonManor]

glad you posted, Ranchie. I don't think I saw a picture of Cal before, even though you talked about him. Such a tiny little guy! (comparing him to the feeder)

Serrin, I think the Buff Orps are just really nice birds. Paris didn't start out one of my cuddly ones, but she spent so much time in the house being held that she changed her mind about it. So sorry for your loss of Gimpy!

 

[barred-rocks-rock]

Ginger

Cosmo

Cocky

She isnt a bird, but oh well.

 

[Miss Sebright]

I know how you feel.

 

[Miss Sebright]

Bump.

 

[chicken crazed 1o1]

last year before i got on this site my first Chicken was a partridge Silkie hen she was so friendly She was and all ways will be the best chicken i ever had She died of egg bound I did every thing i could but she past but my Moms boyfriend said not to do anything he was a big put down

i had to go to school the next day i came and she was dead I was SO upset t rapped her in a towel and held on to her for hours and hours crying and it was 2 days till school and it was hard not telling my friends whats wroung because they would likely make fun of me Im going to see if there are pics of her somewere .