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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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 Posted - Jul 22 2008 : 09:47:43 AM
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Got home last night and our big boy rehabbed rooster was dead. 
Guess the heat finally got to him.
Not bad for a chicken whose life expectency wasn't supposed to be long anyway. I think he had lived for a year and 4 months to be exact.
Think when I pick his body up he must have weighed 20+pounds!
So no more crowing. We have a hen who does, but it's not the same beautiful loud crow of a big rooster
Big boy was the nicest rooster I have even known. He was good to his hens and very very gentle around us too.
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Moonsanity
True Blue Farmgirl
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Brenda
Michigan
USA
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dkelewae
True Blue Farmgirl
1310 Posts
Diana
Saint Peters
MO
USA
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Posted - Jul 22 2008 : 10:55:00 AM
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Awwww, sorry to hear of the loss of Big Boy. I'm sure he's going to be missed very much by you.
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #272
St. Peters MO
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 22 2008 : 11:15:01 AM
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What a sad day. Poor (little) guy...it has been hot, Anna, that's for sure. Sorry for the loss of what sounds, like a good guy to have around the farm.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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eskimobirdlady
True Blue Farmgirl
700 Posts
connie
fairbanks
ak
USA
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Posted - Jul 22 2008 : 3:41:16 PM
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| awww how sad. my grandmother had a saying, "whistling girls and crowing hens always come to some bad end". keep an eye on that crowing hen! my sister had a crowing hen and the first egg she laid she had a blow out and died! peace connie in alaska |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Brew Crew
True Blue Farmgirl
676 Posts
Molly
Arizona
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
2804 Posts
grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
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Posted - Jul 23 2008 : 10:17:08 AM
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Anna I am so sorry for your loss - he is in a new place surrounded by wonderful, admirring hens that will make each day work crowing about. Life will send you another Big Boy with a twinkle in his eye and a big spirit in his heart. You have been lucky to have such a great guy for so long. Hugs from the Funny Farm
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
http://www.larkspurfunnyfarm.etsy.com
http://larkspurfunnyfarm.blogspot.com
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Jul 24 2008 : 1:40:22 PM
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Anna so sorry for the loss of your rooster. My cats are having a bad time dealing with the heat in Louisiana. I put ice cubes in their outside water. They lap it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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nampafarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
494 Posts
Kim
Nampa
ID
USA
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Posted - Jul 24 2008 : 3:37:34 PM
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I am so sorry about your rooster. I have lost pets in the past and it's not easy. I will think of you.  |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 07:22:11 AM
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Thanks for the kind words ladies.
I was told that the big broilers never live very long. Genetically they just aren't bread to be around for very long.
Happy to have provided him a far better live and much happier ending.
i do have saved pictures but haven't quite figured out how to attach them to chat forums.
think big, white and massive!
have you hugged your chickens today?
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2008 : 7:11:43 PM
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Sorry for your loss Anna. It's hard when you get attached to them. My friend just went through that with HER birds. She was SUPPOSED to get 4 Delaware chicks, but the girl at the feed store picked the WRONG chicks and two of them ended up being Cornish Crosses (like "Big Boy") Her rooster died recently too. Not a good way to go, but they aren't meant to live more than 8wks anyway. That's why I don't EVER buy that kind of bird with "Long term" in mind. When you figure out the picture thing, we'd all love to see him. Hugs~~~ Tracy
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
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