REALLY bad news

[The Chicken Lady]

So sorry to hear about your loss...

 

[L*A*G*]

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we're in the same boat. even tho I've never seen my roo do his job at 9 months old I'm still hatching eggs.

i might need some BIG LUCK!

 

[clhbubba]

I'm so sorry for your loss. I've been watching from the beginning and it's just so sad.

 

[Opa]

Sometimes raising these birds can be a puzzle. I had 4 blue andalusians hatch back in October and after a week 2 just died. Never did figure out what happened. Then this month I lost a maran hen due to my ineptitude while attempting to doctor her. A week later, a SLW hen development a cough and breathing problems. I was better prepared this time and undertook a full regimen of treatment. After 2 days she started looking much better, returned to eating and drinking and I thought on the road to recovery. However, 4 days later she was dead. Made me think that perhaps I shouldn't be trying to raise chickens. Read some more, thought some more, and decided that there are somethings we will never know and the knowlege that we tried will have to be enough. Sorry to read that your chicks died and glad to know you will continue to keep trying.

 

[WriterofWords]

Thank you all, I admit to being very frustrated myself right now. What with this baby dying, Blue being injured and one of the babies I brought back from Odessa disappearing last afternoon, I just really have been down. My birds are my escape hatch, just sitting and watching them takes my mind off of other things.

A piece of good news though, the youngster that vanished yesterday turned up this morning early. Blue, Tux, and Turk, the Porch Roo Crew,, started making a big noise about 5 this morning and when I turned on the porch light the missing one was standing there looking around like it was very embarrassed to have caused such a disturbance. I have no idea where it was, but it's back in the baby pen and they graduate to the teen pen today.