your mother was right and it's true..i lost my dad in 2000..mother 4 years ago..thats the hardest thing i have gone thru..not a day goes by that i dont think of them...daddy would have loved my chickens..he use to raise them and breed with different roos to see what they would look like, same as we do now..i lived in mi for 18 years raised by girls there.i came home to live close to by parents im so glad i did...girls weren't happy here for a long time but finally got use to it..you do what you think is right . the way it was i only got to see them couple times a year and knew they were getting older..i was glad to be home lot warmer here too..