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Hard on the heels of her flock-mate's death, Shantung chicken died in the night.
While Coldie was very intent on ensuring she was top-ranked, Shantung chicken just moseyed her way through life. Let Coldie fret about who was Top Chook, Shan wanted FOOD and MORE OF IT so she could LAY ALL THE EGGS.
She wasn't the friendliest chicken, but she did lay and lay and lay and lay until she couldn't lay anymore and needed an implant. Then she just swanned around, pecked at anyone who wasn't Coldie to get at the food, and generally behaved like the top chook even though it was Coldie who did the fighting.
At the end, she was slow and probably in pain. She got a 'spa day' on Sunday - B2 carefully cleaned her underskirts of dried-on poop, dried her in a towel, and then let her sit in the sun in a box inside.
I found her dead in the laying box (where she's been 'roosting' for the last week) this morning.
Thus passes the duo known in the household as 'the Banquet' (our first two chooks were the 'original recipe').
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A decade back, we (the family broadly) lost two cats in a year; this has been four chooks in a 12 months - a bad session for our chooks...
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Windows are going in. Half-done, but the 2nd half are the big and tricksy ones.
While Coldie was very intent on ensuring she was top-ranked, Shantung chicken just moseyed her way through life. Let Coldie fret about who was Top Chook, Shan wanted FOOD and MORE OF IT so she could LAY ALL THE EGGS.
She wasn't the friendliest chicken, but she did lay and lay and lay and lay until she couldn't lay anymore and needed an implant. Then she just swanned around, pecked at anyone who wasn't Coldie to get at the food, and generally behaved like the top chook even though it was Coldie who did the fighting.
At the end, she was slow and probably in pain. She got a 'spa day' on Sunday - B2 carefully cleaned her underskirts of dried-on poop, dried her in a towel, and then let her sit in the sun in a box inside.
I found her dead in the laying box (where she's been 'roosting' for the last week) this morning.
Thus passes the duo known in the household as 'the Banquet' (our first two chooks were the 'original recipe').
--
A decade back, we (the family broadly) lost two cats in a year; this has been four chooks in a 12 months - a bad session for our chooks...
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Windows are going in. Half-done, but the 2nd half are the big and tricksy ones.
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I hope the rest of the window installation goes smoothly, at least.
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But....yeah. Not having to worry about a sick chicken is one less thing. But having the weight of the death is one more thing. So it's all over the place...
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*takes it as her and hugs back*
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"HUGS"
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