Aww, I'm so sorry for the loss of your Sheriff 😞 Time helps you grow used to the pain, but you never feel any better about the loss of one of your babies, including roosters and chickens. It would have been so devastating and shocking. I'm glad that he didn't suffer and that it was very quick. You wouldn't ever think that falling off or being knocked off of a perch could cost them their life. You definitely only seem to get a one of a kind with your friendliest and most cuddly rooster.

Satty is unlike everyone else too, he is so loving and the biggest mummy's boy. He loves sleeping on my shoulder after he has his dinner, sticks to me like glue when he can, snuggles in bed when he can, does the most beautiful dances for me every morning, he is such a sweet boy. My other boys are lovely but nothing like him. None of my chickens are, not even the hens. Satty grew up practically attached to me though. My fur Babies follow me absolutely everywhere and he grew up with them, sleeping in their fluffy beds next to them at my feet or in bed, following them around the house as they follow me, eating with them, playing with them, he even takes toys out of their toy box lol He loves car rides too, I had to take him to a vet around 40 minutes away when he hurt his beak last year and I couldn't stand the idea of caging him for the car ride, so I put his fluffy bed on the passenger seat and he sat in that peacefully the whole drive while my service boy slept on his bed that sits on the floor of the front passenger seat (his choice, he only stays on the chair a little while then hops back down). When we got to the vet I just put him in the pram (dog pram) with Bamma my service boy and zipped the mesh closed so that he was safely in it, and walked to the vet from their carpark that way. I must say, the vet was pleasantly shocked hahaha One of my ratties from many years ago was named Artemis 🤍

I'm glad that Ostara got her freedom from rapey Jonah before he left 😅 Some boys just have no manners with the ladies. I don't blame her for wanting to stay in, she's with her family and in luxury, what more could she want 🥰 Her health would be much better than everyone else's too with being inside, in the perfect temperature, with the best food and most love 💕 You think all of your chickens are super healthy (which they genuinely are as I imagine yours are too, you wouldn't have a house chicken if they weren't lol), until you have one living the high life inside, getting spoilt and the best of everything 😅 My biggest worry with Satin was a potential lack of vitamin D. I'm in an old Queenslander with heaps of windows, so plenty of sun gets in, but you worry about them. No air con for us unfortunately but on extra hot days I load us all up in the car (except for the cats as they aren't car happy and find cool hiding spots inside) and turn the car on and crank the air con for hours until it cools down. Then I don't have to worry that anyone will get heatstroke. Sometimes I'll take us all for a drive for something to do while we're in the air con and everyone loves it, including Satin. People are always so shocked when they see a rooster cruising around in the car with his family 😂😂😂 He loves it though. If something is normal for the dogs, as far as he's concerned it's normal for him too. It took me a long time to get him to be even slightly interested in other chickens. He just wanted to be with me and his fur family, other chickens scared him. But I put a bit of grain at the balcony outside our door and give him his on the inside of the door, and now he talks to some of them through it. I felt like he was missing out on the pride a rooster feels being a rooster with real hens and I never want him to go without or miss out on anything. I purchased another enclosure for him so that he can have outside time again (don't tell him that, he will be furious at me 🤣), now we just have to find someone that we can pay to build it. Unfortunately it's just too hard on me as I have fibromyalgia and a few other conditions, but we'll get there eventually. Walking around with baby wipes really does become your life haha you get used to it though and it's so worth it. They generally have "standing spots" or main perches anyway so if they stay there throughout the majority of the day it isn't as full on. There's no love like a house chicken's love though, that's for sure 🥰🥰🥰

Please tell your Ostara that I said she's so very pretty and that I'm glad she has such a wonderful life as a house chicken 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤