The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

Husband got up at 5 am to sit and watch and she was already dead in the yard.

OH, CRAPOLA! I has to be an owl, I'd think.

My friend says she wonders if Bash has afib, that he needs a pacemaker, LOL. Her husband is having serious issues with afib and may need one himself, and she says he acts like Bash, full of energy, then BOOM! He's flat out and exhausted. A rooster with a pacemaker, well, that would be a first!
 
OH, CRAPOLA! I has to be an owl, I'd think.

My friend says she wonders if Bash has afib, that he needs a pacemaker, LOL. Her husband is having serious issues with afib and may need one himself, and she says he acts like Bash, full of energy, then BOOM! He's flat out and exhausted. A rooster with a pacemaker, well, that would be a first!
I was gonna say it's similar to cardiomyopathy in dogs where they will pass out from too much exertion, or just die one day.

I hope your husband gets his heart problems taken care of. That's scary stuff to be dealing with. :hmm
 
I was gonna say it's similar to cardiomyopathy in dogs where they will pass out from too much exertion, or just die one day.

I hope your husband gets his heart problems taken care of. That's scary stuff to be dealing with. :hmm

They say Tom has afib, but he says he doesn't feel like he does, that it must be very, very mild. My friend's husband, however, is having terrible trouble. Maybe Bash does need a pacemaker! We've been wracking our brains to see what he might have eaten or what bit him to make him this way, but maybe it's none of that, just his heart giving out.
 
Must be so darn frustrating to never get a glimpse of what is getting them. At least, you'd know better how to handle it, but unless you have a LGD out there all the time and/or you lock them in until it's light outside, I'm not sure how you'd stop something like an owl.
We have donkeys, but they apparently aren't a deterrent to an owl. I am locking up my bantams as they have a covered run. Otherwise :idunno we are working on it.
 
You know, someone asked me about "unusual mortality" in my flock. I've lost Gypsy, Maretta and now, Neela, as of last night, all very recently. But, those hens were 11, 8 and 9 years old, respectively. Plus, I have eight, count 'em, EIGHT, more hens in that 9-12+year old age range, not to mention several 8 year olds right behind those. If I lost eight hens in one day, considering their ages, it would not be "unusual mortality". The only unusual thing here is that I have so many who've lived to those ripe old ages with few issues other than stiff joints. We expected and have been talking about a mass die-off of our stock.
 

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