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We’ve lost two Buff Orpington hens and one Rhode Island Red within the last couple of months…..

I can’t remember the last time I had actually bought those two breeds…..

…..it was awhile ago…..four or five years at least(?)…..

They were big ole’ mama hens…..

…..and I just found them in the coop…..dead…..(?)…..

…..no cause that I could see…..

…..just flopped over…..

Yesterday I noticed Rooster Rex (#1) looking droopy and poorly…..

…..he was perched on the wheelbarrow…..and wasn’t going back to the coop…..

I have a better handle on his age…..

…..my friend Simone has shown him at least three times in the Poultry Show at the Florida State Fair…..

…..he wouldn’t have been “show-worthy” for at least one year…..

…..this year we didn’t show at the Fair…..(you know…Covid-19)…..

…..some quick/simple math puts him at at least five years old…..

I purchased Rooster Rex as a 2 day-old/mail-order/Blue-Laced Red Wyandotte chick …..I had ordered two of them…..(you know—–for a back-up—–just in case)…..

…..so there’s a Rooster Rex #1 along with a Rooster Rex #2…..

Did I ever tell you how these roosters got their names?

You see…..Simone has a propensity for a red wine named Rex Goliath…..

…..which we have fondly streamlined to Rooster Rex……

…..or even more casually…..Chicken Wine…..

When Simone first showed one of the big red roosters…..it wasn’t a huge stretch to name him Rooster Rex…..(he’s a nice Merlot coloring)…..

…..#1 is currently looking ratty & skinny…..

…..#2 remains hale & hearty…..a big bruiser of a rooster…..

I’ll have to break the news to Simone gently…..

…..(unless Pascal blurts it out before I get the chance to tell Simone)…..

I’ve been feeding him cat food crunchies…..he likes those…..maybe he’ll pull through…..

…..but usually when a chicken starts circling the drain…..there’s no stopping the progression…..(sigh)…..

I do think he’s an old boy…..

I have an adult French Black Maran rooster in the turkey coop…..

…..between R. R. #2 and Jean-Luc in with the turkeys…..I think we have someone for Simone to show at the next State Fair…..

Thank you Rooster Rex #1 for all of the blue ribbons for Simone…..

You’ve been a good rooster…..and a pretty bird…..