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Thanks you guys! Its been a long couple weeks & a sucky day. I spent more than an hour trying to dig a hole thru So Cal clay while crying big, fat, ugly tears for Baby Iris (who really is a lonely only now) & for DD Frankie. :hit The whole time I was out there I could tell (smell) my neighbor was watching me. I couldn't see him, but his cigarette smoke stayed very close. He was probably wondering why I was burying my dinner & trying to figure out why I was crying over it.

I've spent a lot of time today wondering if I should have put that damn egg under Poppy or if I should've just eaten it. On the con side; A lonely only city roo with no mother... What sort of life will he have? On the pro side; Poppy wanted to be a mother so bad & we were at least able to do that for her. Its been a great adventure, but I feel that more heartbreak awaits. Is there somehow a way to defy the odds & give this beautiful boy the life that every animal deserves? I know there are no answers & its no use questioning whats already been done. So, kay sera sera I suppose. :(

Rest in Peace Poppy & good luck Baby Iris. :hugs
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I don't, at all, think you did anything wrong. If anything, you let Poppy (who would still probably have met her end this way) get the full "Hen experience". I actually think you probably prolonged her life by letting her have Iris. Think about it - she would have played the broody game anyway whether she hatched out of not (depriving herself and being semi-catatonic for days on end) - and then, she got to share in the yummy, high protein chick food you gave Iris, plus all the other treats and loves along the way... Which she wouldn't have gotten without her little one!
Iris will be fine... He has other chickens around.
One of the things I've found with little cockerels is that they don't tend to stay lonely for long. Pullets have a much more difficult time with being singles, but my cockerels might take a day or two, and then kind of just "move in" with the rest of the bunch.
It's gonna be okay.
 
orrpeople said:
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I don't, at all, think you did anything wrong. If anything, you let Poppy (who would still probably have met her end this way) get the full "Hen experience". I actually think you probably prolonged her life by letting her have Iris. Think about it - she would have played the broody game anyway whether she hatched out of not (depriving herself and being semi-catatonic for days on end) - and then, she got to share in the yummy, high protein chick food you gave Iris, plus all the other treats and loves along the way... Which she wouldn't have gotten without her little one!
Iris will be fine... He has other chickens around.
One of the things I've found with little cockerels is that they don't tend to stay lonely for long. Pullets have a much more difficult time with being singles, but my cockerels might take a day or two, and then kind of just "move in" with the rest of the bunch.
It's gonna be okay.
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Thank you! :hugs
 
And I caught a big fish today! Walleye or saugeye, and also caught a good sized channel cat
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