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.
