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[pennyJo1960]

So sorry Family we are stuck with have allot friends here Shad

 

[Shadrach]

Here is Gedit poor hen. She was just alive when I got to her but the shock was just too much.
If the people in the main house hadn't been here she would still be alive.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am so sorry Shad Humans can be so stupid cannot fix stupid

 

[N F C]

I expect so Meg. He will spend Christmas with the main house. They came back last night.
In case nobody had worked it out a proportion of the main house are my relatives. I can't even begin to explain how much I wish they weren't, but they are and there's an end to it.
My half brother isn't a bad man and he is welcome here in my house. I can't say the same for the rest of the main house.
They have been back less than 24 hours. This is the damage report.
They made a bench seat in the sheep shed some time ago. I took it out because it wasn't made well enough to take the weight of the sheep. They stand on it with their front legs so they can see over the front wall. One of them decided to put it back in this morning. This afternoon the sheep knocked the bench seat off the wall. One of them likes to put the sheep to bed when they are here but often the sheep won't go in for them. This evening was such an occasion. I got told that one of the sheep was limping. I went to look and in the middle of the floor was the bench seat with the screws pointing upwards lying in the middle of the shed.
The duckhouse I built has doors that fold down to provide a ramp into the duck house.
The hinges are strong but if a person stands on the edge of the door/ramp (there is absolutely no need to stand on these doors) they won't take the weight of a human, much like a ramp to a chicken coop.
I went to put the ducks away tonight and the door is lying at an angle where one hinge has been broken.
They are having guests around for dinner and they've been rushing around presumably thinking about the dinner party. They all talk too much and leave things to the last minute.
The chickens, ducks and sheep are generally terrified of two of these people who move too suddenly and don't think about what they are doing. It's like watching an imbecile on amphetamines when they try to do stuff. I had already seen them send tribe 3 into a panic flight when they were showing their guests the donkeys. Tribe 3 moved up to where the ducks are and were there when these same people went up to put the sheep to bed. When you frighten chickens they just rush in any direction to get away from the threat, much like sheep do with a strange dog.
At roost time I Gedit was missing. I found her in the pond. The duck shed is very close to the pond and that is where the door got broken. It got broken while the chickens were up with the ducks.
Gedit died in my arms as I tried to warm her up and dry her out about an hour and a half after I got her out of the pond.
Sorry if this brings anyone down. I've lost two gorgeous hens this week due to human stupidity. I can live with the wild predators. The half wit humans I find very difficult.

Oh Shad, so sorry about Gedit, and all the chaos. I didn't realize some of them in the main house were family. But totally understand the part of it. (As Sour likes to remind us, friends are the family you make for yourself.)

 

[sourland]

I expect so Meg. He will spend Christmas with the main house. They came back last night.
In case nobody had worked it out a proportion of the main house are my relatives. I can't even begin to explain how much I wish they weren't, but they are and there's an end to it.
My half brother isn't a bad man and he is welcome here in my house. I can't say the same for the rest of the main house.
They have been back less than 24 hours. This is the damage report.
They made a bench seat in the sheep shed some time ago. I took it out because it wasn't made well enough to take the weight of the sheep. They stand on it with their front legs so they can see over the front wall. One of them decided to put it back in this morning. This afternoon the sheep knocked the bench seat off the wall. One of them likes to put the sheep to bed when they are here but often the sheep won't go in for them. This evening was such an occasion. I got told that one of the sheep was limping. I went to look and in the middle of the floor was the bench seat with the screws pointing upwards lying in the middle of the shed.
The duckhouse I built has doors that fold down to provide a ramp into the duck house.
The hinges are strong but if a person stands on the edge of the door/ramp (there is absolutely no need to stand on these doors) they won't take the weight of a human, much like a ramp to a chicken coop.
I went to put the ducks away tonight and the door is lying at an angle where one hinge has been broken.
They are having guests around for dinner and they've been rushing around presumably thinking about the dinner party. They all talk too much and leave things to the last minute.
The chickens, ducks and sheep are generally terrified of two of these people who move too suddenly and don't think about what they are doing. It's like watching an imbecile on amphetamines when they try to do stuff. I had already seen them send tribe 3 into a panic flight when they were showing their guests the donkeys. Tribe 3 moved up to where the ducks are and were there when these same people went up to put the sheep to bed. When you frighten chickens they just rush in any direction to get away from the threat, much like sheep do with a strange dog.
At roost time I Gedit was missing. I found her in the pond. The duck shed is very close to the pond and that is where the door got broken. It got broken while the chickens were up with the ducks.
Gedit died in my arms as I tried to warm her up and dry her out about an hour and a half after I got her out of the pond.
Sorry if this brings anyone down. I've lost two gorgeous hens this week due to human stupidity. I can live with the wild predators. The half wit humans I find very difficult.

Can't like this, Shad - I am so very sorry.

 

[Shadrach]

Oh Shad, so sorry about Gedit, and all the chaos. I didn't realize some of them in the main house were family. But totally understand the part of it. (As Sour likes to remind us, friends are the family you make for yourself.)

The simple truth is I find losing animals here heartbreaking. Maybe I shouldn't but I adore the chickens and Muscovy ducks.
This week has been very hard on the heart.
I have stories that would horrify most people who have any fondness for the creatures they keep.
I've just walked past the main house kitchen window and they are all sitting in there stuffing their faces and getting drunk. I've sat here for the past hour and a bit trying to save a hen from dying of hypothermia.
Yes I am feeling sorry for myself as well as the grief from the loss of two hens this week.
I'll get up in the morning and go out and do it all again. It's what I do and one of the reasons they wanted me here.

 

[Shadrach]

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Lovely.

 

[Shadrach]

On a more positive note......
Knock is sitting again and I'm going to let her. She's from Tribe 3 and Gedit was their most senior hen. They're a bit short staffed now.
Barking mad Bracket, aka miss neurological, is getting ready to sit. She's about two days away from full on broody. I found her nest today and I might move her on night one when she sits and let her sit and hatch in her tribes coop.

 

[bruceha2000]

She passed away June 1st this year of pancreatic cancer.

Oh, WAY too recent It gets better .... very slowly.

Good morning, all. We've got our first!

Congratulations! Maybe you should be over on BYH as well.

Our house is in the barn so the view out my kitchen window is the calving pens. Unfortunately, can't see much because we put plywood around them so they can't see the dogs walking by.

That has to be somewhat unique. People could actually answer "Yes" to "Were you born in a barn?!?"

I'll get up in the morning and go out and do it all again. It's what I do and one of the reasons they wanted me here.

Very sad. So they want you there to take care of the animals they don't want to be responsible for but won't keep their hands off? Just the kind of "help" you don't need.

 

[N F C]

On a more positive note......
Knock is sitting again and I'm going to let her. She's from Tribe 3 and Gedit was their most senior hen. They're a bit short staffed now.
Barking mad Bracket, aka miss neurological, is getting ready to sit. She's about two days away from full on broody. I found her nest today and I might move her on night one when she sits and let her sit and hatch in her tribes coop.

Some new chicks around the place would be wonderful Shad...here's hoping 2020 is a great year for chickens.