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Feel Terrible................. ran over one of my favorite hens with the golf cart : (

post #1 of 16
1/26/12 at 4:27pm
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I have a gas golf cart with a dump bed that I use to haul all my feed around to the different feeders. I filled up one of the range feeders and proceeded to go on to the next one..... then thump. She must have gotten under the cart by the back wheel...... my poor poor girl...... I feel so horrible. At least she went quick and didn't know what happened..... but I'm just sick about it. Only I could run over a chicken with a golf cart.....  hit.gif

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My Heart is Broken... I miss you my Sweet Sophie Puff Diva Chicken....
Living and working on a Zoo farm - 300 plus chickens, fancy pigeons, Sebbies geese, turkey, crested ducks, peafowl, ornamental pheasant and ducks, Black swans, Egyptian geese, African Crowned Cranes, Emu, fainting goats, mini zebu, mini horses,mini donkey, alpacas, llamas, horses, 5 Great Pyrenees and a cat.
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post #2 of 16
1/26/12 at 4:32pm

Awww crap!!  So sorry that happened!!  hugs.gif My girls get under/around my car all the time, when I'm getting in it to go somewhere, and even when I pull back into the driveway they run over.  I always worry about hitting or running over one... That really bites - accidents happen.  Don't beat yourself up over it.

Caretaker of a lovely mixed flock including: australorp, plymouth rocks, wyandotte, d'uccles, silkies, EEs, andalusian, and a few seramas, plus a golden retriever, great dane, and three cats.
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Caretaker of a lovely mixed flock including: australorp, plymouth rocks, wyandotte, d'uccles, silkies, EEs, andalusian, and a few seramas, plus a golden retriever, great dane, and three cats.
R.I.P. Bear 2010 - "The Best Dog Ever"

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post #3 of 16
1/26/12 at 4:35pm

hugs.gif We ALL have been exposed to those accidents and sometimes to the best, it just happens!

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post #4 of 16
1/26/12 at 4:45pm

So sorry its hard losing pet chicken, it sucks.

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post #5 of 16
1/26/12 at 5:25pm

hugs.gif That's rough. I can imagine how you're feeling about it, but don't punish yourself for an accident, okay? You say she went quick, so she probably didn't suffer too much.

Game warden of the crazy preserve. Inmates include: EE's, RIR, BSL, BO, SLW, Welsummer, Exchequer Leghorn, blue/black Wyandottes, BR's, Ameraucana's, and Icelandics <3 Plus an adopted brown turkey who is broody and must be part cobra, part goose :P

 

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Game warden of the crazy preserve. Inmates include: EE's, RIR, BSL, BO, SLW, Welsummer, Exchequer Leghorn, blue/black Wyandottes, BR's, Ameraucana's, and Icelandics <3 Plus an adopted brown turkey who is broody and must be part cobra, part goose :P

 

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post #6 of 16
1/26/12 at 6:35pm

so sorry, ours were free ranging today near the car when I had to go pick up my son, I tried to shoo them away, but they like me, so more came running to see if I had treats.  So sorry, I feel we do our best to prevent accident but sometimes, it still happens.  Sleep knowing it was just that, an accident, peace. . . .

1 greatly tolerant and participating husband, 2 kids, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 gerbs, 2 hamsters, 1 guinea pig, 3 lionhead rabbits, several fish. My flock of untold number (really don't know and afraid to count) of chickens, 12 guineas, 4 Pekins, and 2 welsh harlequin ducks! Productions, J. Giants, asst bantums, EE, barred & white rocks, L.brahma, SLW, buckeyes, BO, and RIR.
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1 greatly tolerant and participating husband, 2 kids, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 gerbs, 2 hamsters, 1 guinea pig, 3 lionhead rabbits, several fish. My flock of untold number (really don't know and afraid to count) of chickens, 12 guineas, 4 Pekins, and 2 welsh harlequin ducks! Productions, J. Giants, asst bantums, EE, barred & white rocks, L.brahma, SLW, buckeyes, BO, and RIR.
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post #7 of 16
1/26/12 at 7:22pm

So sorry for the loss. Don't be too hard on yourself though.hugs.gif

4 Silkies, 2 Leg Horns, 3 Ameraucanas, 3 Partridge Rocks, 1 Crevecoeur, 2 Australorp, 2 Buff Brahmas, 2 "Silkhorns", 2 "Brahma-Hampshire" , 2 NH Red's = One Chicken Lovin' Family!
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4 Silkies, 2 Leg Horns, 3 Ameraucanas, 3 Partridge Rocks, 1 Crevecoeur, 2 Australorp, 2 Buff Brahmas, 2 "Silkhorns", 2 "Brahma-Hampshire" , 2 NH Red's = One Chicken Lovin' Family!
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post #8 of 16
1/26/12 at 7:40pm

I'm so sorry.   hugs.gif   Just remember, it was a accident.   At least she went very quickly.   hugs.gif

mom of 8 kids,  3 dogs,  10 cats, 11 hens, 1 goose, 1 duck  and the most loving, patient hubby, who puts up with me!!

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mom of 8 kids,  3 dogs,  10 cats, 11 hens, 1 goose, 1 duck  and the most loving, patient hubby, who puts up with me!!

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post #9 of 16
1/26/12 at 8:43pm

Poor gal- probably just couldn't get out of the way. I know you are feeling bad- so sorry!

Just three girls....a BR and 2 BO's. And I love em to death! Wishing for the day to have some acreage for more.
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Just three girls....a BR and 2 BO's. And I love em to death! Wishing for the day to have some acreage for more.
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post #10 of 16
1/26/12 at 8:58pm
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I know exactly how you feel - just awful!  I backed over one of my girls a year ago or so, because I was in a hurry and I thought they had all moved away from the car.  She hadn't  It was awful.  I felt like such a jerk.  I had looked in all the mirrors, rear and both side mirrors and out the windows, too.  But she ducked under the car behind the front wheels.  You didn't even have mirrors to check, so how could you have known?

 

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-- Linda (AKA: gryeyes)
I refuse to fight a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Buncha Outdoor PET chickens, ducks, two Toulouse ganders, and four turkeys. Plus 2 wiener dogs, some bunnies and a rescue cat which owns me. Oh. And a house silkie....

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-- Linda (AKA: gryeyes)
I refuse to fight a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Buncha Outdoor PET chickens, ducks, two Toulouse ganders, and four turkeys. Plus 2 wiener dogs, some bunnies and a rescue cat which owns me. Oh. And a house silkie....

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