Miracle Silkie rises from the dead!

This morning Doug and I went out to the back of the property to unload a trailer full of wood. Doug looked over to the silkie tractor and said, hey, is that silkie dead? Sure enough it was. Laying on it's side beside the wire, legs outstretched, head tucked in. I poked it through the wire. Dead. Floppy. I poked its head out and saw mouth open, eyes open, limp and no sign of life. Darn. I followed Doug out back to complete the task, making a mental note to get the silkie out of the tractor and dispose of it when we were done.

Well, of course I forgot. That was at 10:00 and now it is 2:45. Darn, gotta get that silkie. I trudge out and look into the tractor. No silkie. What the heck? I open the tractor and see all 6 standing there. I can't even tell which one was dead!

Any theories? I am gobsmacked!

Heck of a party the night before. Dressed in their finest silks, strutting their stuff and generally managing to pullet off. It caught up to her.

bckev wrote:Heck of a party the night before. Dressed in their finest silks, strutting their stuff and generally managing to pullet off. It caught up to her.

I bow to you, king of the punsters!

Absinthe.

Clearly your are now the owner of a Zombie Silkie.

My guess would be a seizure. The very first houdan I had was a hen that was prone to seizures. She would literally freeze in place and be unresponse. The only way I learned to bring her out of it was to gentle pet her. At first the seizures lasted only seconds, but got longer till one day she simple didn't wake.

Pollywog wrote:Clearly your are now the owner of a Zombie Silkie.

I see a new fad coming...