Phew, I am yet again a million miles behind you guys! Sigh.
Hope everyone is well. We had a bit of a disaster here last night. I left the house at 6 PM to meet DH to pick up a couple dressers at his parents and to pick Lucie up at the clinic who had her leg amputated yesterday. Everything went really well with Lucie's surgery and she is doing very well at home. She even walked this morning with just a little sling support which is impressive. I think she will do really well once she is healed up.
Anyway, back to the disaster. Got home at 8:30 and we ate dinner, got the dog settled into her crate and at 9:30 I went out to hay the horses for the night. The gate was hanging wide open and the horses were GONE! In a frenzy DH and I started walking around with halters and buckets of grain calling them. We followed their hoof prints on the road north for about a mile and then DH went back for his car to start driving. We called the Sheriff to report them missing and called his parents who came out with spotlights. After about 35 minutes of me walking with grain, DH and his parents driving with spot lights and no sign of them the three non horse folks were ready to call it quits. So I told them they could stop looking but I was going to keep looking until I found them. I lost their trail heading east on the road and assume they left the road and went into a field. So I started driving around with my car and spot light. I tried to be very careful to only shine the light into fields and clicked it off when I drove near folks houses but I alerted one of the neighbors who happens to be a police officer and he chased me back to the house in his truck thinking I was a robber only to find a sobbing pregnant girl who had lost her horses! So he went back to his house gathered supplies and helped us start looking! He also recruited a sheriff friend who was on duty to help and DH made a sign to put out front of the house. Luckily enough another neighbor heard their dogs going nuts and went out to see our horses in their yard! Phew, we went up and gathered them up and I walked them two miles back to the house and we finally got to bed at 2 AM. We had snaps on the gate but now there are snaps and new chains around the posts with pad locks! If they get out of that I don't know what to do with them!!!
Danz- Are you sure one of those darling goslings are grey? They both look white to me? I will post pics of my grey babies later tonight when they were goslings for you to compare.
I know our chickens are going to provide us with lots of life lessons, often with unhappy endings...
