The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

x2! I would rather go in my sleep as well and I pray for it!

 

[drumstick diva]

I'd rather not go at all and revitalize all who need it.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Our Governor declared out state a state of emergency over the flu epidemic here.
We have had 44 deaths due to the flu so far here. I did not want to spread it around and I did not want to get exposed to the second strain as well. Here in AL one man age 38 got both strains and died in 3 days.

People will be wearing masks in public soon!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I am on day 4. Was feeling a bit better until i found another dead chicken in my coop. So i cried a lot and slept a lot today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am on day 4. Was feeling a bit better until i found another dead chicken in my coop. So i cried a lot and slept a lot today.

Might be best you did hopefully you will recover soon

 

[drumstick diva]

so sorry Cap.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Thanks, i have lost 66% of my Speckled Sussex so far since they hatched mid August. No cockerel left. And from what i understand, most of them start dying off the fastest after 6 months of age. Only lost one Polish so far, the best cockerel naturally.

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Cap you've had enough sorrow lately. Time for it to move on.

 

[microchick]

I'm so sorry @CapricornFarm. That is the way that it has been going with my Buff Orpingtons. I think I read where SS are almost as susceptible as Buffs when it came to Marek's Disease.

I have one lone SS hen that is almost three years old. She is the sweetest little hen but has had crop problems since she was a three month old pullet. She still has problems on occasions with her crop emptying completely and I have to give her a Dulcolax stool softener to settle things down. I suspected it was because she was a little piggy and would gobble food down like it was her last meal but later read that Marek's can cause crop problems in birds.

Some one on one of the Marek's threads said that it causes so many problems in chickens that after loosing a bird to classical Marek's paralysis they now just automatically says that every time a bird dies, they just categorize it as a Marek's death.

My little SS girl is one of the birds that I keep expecting to keel over but never does. I'm glad. She's a sweet bird, gentle natured and good with the other hens.

Once again, I'm so sorry that you lost another hen plus are still miserable from the flu.

Feel better, please.