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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: mcginty on August 24, 2012, 11:53:46 pm

Title: dead cockerel
Post by: mcginty on August 24, 2012, 11:53:46 pm: Lost our cockerel, he was find ,overnight he went very red in the head,
what is this?
Title: Re: dead cockerel
Post by: graham-j on August 25, 2012, 08:30:30 am: Hi,sounds like he may have had to much sun,have your birds got plenty of shaded areas so they canto get out of it.
Overheating can be a big killer especially with the sudden heat wave a lot of the country has had over the past week.

Graham.
Title: Re: dead cockerel
Post by: Sylvia on August 25, 2012, 08:51:20 am: Poor old chap :( Could it have been a virulent infection, watch the others carefully :chook:
Title: Re: dead cockerel
Post by: mcginty on August 25, 2012, 11:34:11 pm: Not a good week, lost three ducks to the fox, found a hen drowned in the duck pond,
then Mr cockerel.

Heading to a poultry sale, Sunday, to stock up again.

I was told Mr. may have had a heart at tact maybe all the ladies were to much for him.

Ihope i am not buying Mr foxy more dinner.
Title: Re: dead cockerel
Post by: heidih on August 26, 2012, 12:21:52 am: Aww not a good week for u then.. :(..good luck with your new friends hunny xxx :excited:
Title: Re: dead cockerel
Post by: plumseverywhere on August 26, 2012, 07:56:29 am: Our first cochin cockerel was said to have had a heart attack due to his ahem, workload. I don't recall him being very red in the head, he just went breathless and died on me within minutes.
Title: Re: dead cockerel
Post by: heidih on August 26, 2012, 11:57:03 am: Plumseverywhere...aww poor thing ..dying in action xx :'(b
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Post by: robert waddell on August 26, 2012, 05:50:08 pm: yep the best way to go dying on the job ;) :roflanim: :farmer:
Title: Re: dead cockerel
Post by: heidih on August 26, 2012, 11:19:37 pm: Ha ha robert.. :excited: x
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Post by: Moleskins on August 26, 2012, 11:26:33 pm: Come on guys what happened to sympathy?
Title: Re: dead cockerel
Post by: heidih on August 27, 2012, 07:23:04 pm: I am only playing,, i know how much upset it must be losing one of our feathered friends.x :eyelashes: