It never occurred to us that veterinarians were mostly cat/dog only Dr's! Unless one lives in a rural area, barnyard animals are not seen by vets here in the suburbs. There are avian specialists here but their prices are way higher than cat/dog vets.
Likely to keep the poultry/food industry from over-abusing its use in the egg/meat businesses.
You're right. They prefer French vanilla or apple cider donut. Like these two.I dropped the chocolate cake… grrrr! Homemade from scratch. Sheesh!
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Seems chickens don’t like chocolate cake - what a waste.
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I will tell this truth. I did have to go to three therapy sessions for the loss of Sir Jaffar. (I told the therapist that I had lost a dear family member) I never mentioned he was a chicken pet. !
Note: mental therapy only works if you allow it!Sir Jaffar is deeply implanted in my memory
Are you kidding? My tribe is about established as our Fed. Government is these days! I’m not so worried about adding a single entity to it. Another Cochin would be nice, but there’s no way in the known universe any bird could replace Sir Jaffar. It's best/smart IMO to get more than one bird from a hatch... too stressful introducing just one bird into an established flock anyway. We learned that the hard way
It was more birds than we needed but the last couple times we got 3 chicks from the same hatch so that if one died (chicks are notoriously delicate so I learned from my Mom) so at least 2 would survive to adulthood to pal around. Easier to integrate pairs/trio's into an established flock than a single bird. We were fortunate all chicks were hardy to adulthood.
Our 2017 Dominique chick trio
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Our 2024 Silkie chick trio
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2020 we got a pair of DNA-sexed Silkie chicks
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That post is very comforting, thanks CB.
I relate. When I lost Lil' Queenie it really affected me deeply, it felt like I'd lost a family member, but more than that, not an adult family member, but more like a child: someone I was responsible for and had failed to protect. This is a very deep and awful kind of grief. It took a long, long time to begin to understand my pain and come to grips with all the parts of it. Working through it all didn't lessen the pain exactly, but put it within a larger field of view and understanding, which is a kind of cushion around it. Grace, forgiveness, compassion and acceptance. Remembering these, and remembering the whole of their life, not just the death, help when pain comes up.
As prescribed dear Canadian friend!Make sure you take them now ok?!
Depends on the height of the mountain!But you keep Marie at 3K feet, no?
I’m not discounting Mr Wyandottey. He has shown himself worthy of praise every day. He’s very brave, and intelligent! And yes, I love my big boy buddy, Rudy the Wyandottey!
I relate. When I lost Lil' Queenie it really affected me deeply, it felt like I'd lost a family member, but more than that, not an adult family member, but more like a child: someone I was responsible for and had failed to protect. This is a very deep and awful kind of grief. It took a long, long time to begin to understand my pain and come to grips with all the parts of it. Working through it all didn't lessen the pain exactly, but put it within a larger field of view and understanding, which is a kind of cushion around it. Grace, forgiveness, compassion and acceptance. Remembering these, and remembering the whole of their life, not just the death, help when pain comes up.
