Sad goodbye to Junior

Our beautiful polish rooster just died today. I don't know why. I went by his cage, where only a few moments before I had seen him doing a very good, roosterly thing, and he was laying flat on his back, spurs up. And he had gone through so much...*sob* We got him about one year ago with three other little polish buttonhead chicks, from our friend, who had purchase a whole bunch of them. We originally got them to keep our new silky baby chick company. The 5 of them were happy for about 9 months, until Junior was found laying on the floor of the cage! The hens were pecking at him, and I thought he was dead! So we went in and grabbed him, and, apparently, Fop (the now bigger silky rooster) had beaten him up and left him to the mercy of the hens. He was still alive, but looked like his neck was broken, i.e., he couldn't hold his head up.  But after a few minutes of love and petting, he held his neck up and seemed okay. So we kept him in the hospital cage for several weeks. When he got his crow back, albeit weaker, we put him in a new pen, and gave him 4 little hens. He was happy! Until today....He will be missed. This is Junior in his new pen:

Junior is one of the little ones below: (his baby picture) Fop is the big one in the middle.