IF YOU’VE got livestock you’ve got deadstock” has been a phrase I have heard many times over the years in birdkeeping. It feels like a way of overcoming the loss by reminding yourself of the reality of keeping animals.
When you have a reasonable number of birds, death can become a regular occurrence and we become a little more hardened to the fact that the inevitable will occur. It seems (to me at least) that it’s always the ones you least expect.
Of course,the end when their energy is sapped. I recall this harsh lesson as a youngster when I would try so hard to get a bird through this period only to be met with the probability of just prolonging the inevitable by a few days.
