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Lost Ollie today :(

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As the title says I lost my handsome characterful Ollie today. Both I and the vet have no idea what could have caused his demise.

 

He was his usual bright bouncy self yesterday afternoon I have a picture of him on my phone and he is the very picture of health. This morning his comb was pale and he was slumped very lifeless. The vet did X-rays and bloods etc and said his pcv was low and he had fluid where his air sacs should be and that putting him to sleep was the only option. I am devastated how can he go from fit and healthy one day to this in less than 24hrs.

 

Has anyone any idea what this could have been? Will the girls have it?

 

Talking of the girls they are bereft without him he has looked after them all their lives they are looking for him desperately. We have not buried him yet and my daughter wonders if we should put him back so that they can see him dead like you do with rabbits. Does anyone know or even have an opinion. Thanks.

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Poor you, I know it's an inevitable part of chicken keeping, but like loosing any pets you always wonder if there was something you missed, could have done etc etc.

I am yet to lose one of my girls but as ex cage fighters , having had them since June I know the clock is ticking but I hope when the end it nigh it's quick and painless :pray:

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So sorry to see Ollie has gone to the land of as many treats as you like. It is a shock when they are fine one minute and the next gone. We lost the last of our big fat ladies Apache last year. I knew she probably had heart problems as her comb was purple in the late winter of early spring. It soon cleared up and she was soon bright red and not a hint of another shade. She was laying eggs happily all through summer. Then in August she didn't come out of the cube - and she'd died in the night. She was 5 and a half. Still upsetting as she was one of our first chickens ever. Soooo now I have room in the cube . . . .

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