- Nov 8, 2009
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Yesterday was a hard day- we lost our farm security guard and best friend of 12 years to cancer- R.I.P. Starla Jane. It was pretty sad at coop up time when we put all of our lovely birds up for the night... not as bad as this morning though, when I opened my daughter's banty house and found all of her beauties beheaded! Every single one of the poor, precious tiny chickens- even the babies- dead and headless. It's like the predators knew Starla was gone and took advantage of it immediately. I *think* I found where the culprit sneaked in a gap between the roof and the wall. I didn't seal up the hole- I put a live trap w/ cat food bait in there and left all the gore from the killings (but buried the bodies) in hopes that it'll come back tonite and meet it's maker.
Man, it's been a bad week at Almosta Farm- we lost our ewe sheep, Olivia; our trusted dog, Starla Jane and all 13 of my daughter's banties- including our beloved Amelia, who managed to survive in barn all alone after hatching for 8 days (a man hatched the babies and sold them all off as "day olds", packed up his equipment and left the barn. When he came back 8 days later, she was running around eating spilled food, he offered her to us and we took her)
Man, it's been a bad week at Almosta Farm- we lost our ewe sheep, Olivia; our trusted dog, Starla Jane and all 13 of my daughter's banties- including our beloved Amelia, who managed to survive in barn all alone after hatching for 8 days (a man hatched the babies and sold them all off as "day olds", packed up his equipment and left the barn. When he came back 8 days later, she was running around eating spilled food, he offered her to us and we took her)
