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AUNT KAT said:
Let me just clarify that when I say I want to quit smoking though.......it's not gonna be today.  :oops:  My little one has her last recital for the year in dance.  She is still reeling from her gymnastics recital Wednesday.  Had to drag her out of bed to get her ready because we have to be ready for dress rehearsal across town by 8:45, where I will have her fluffy bumblebee costume shoved under another costume for the opening number (and white shorts that need to stay white for several hours), and wings and headpiece in tow, keep her occupied for 4 or so hours of dress rehearsal for the entire company, come home, try to get her to nap within 4 hours before she needs to be there for the show where we will wait another hour before she is collected and taken back stage WITHOUT ME, and have everything in place with inlaws, my twin preteen boys, and my mother (from out of state) all at the correct place for the 2 to 3 hour show, and worry myself silly that the volunteers and staff realize that if she says she has to pee, she isn't kidding!!!!! 
Oh, and my coffee needs to be consumed before we get there because I cannot have any in the auditorium............so got up early to consume enough caffeine to kill a small animal!!!
Please pray everyone.  Thanks.....:barnie
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Break a leg! Just not anyone else's leg! Lol

galgo98 said:
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ha! Yay no pants!!
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PAchickenlover said:
Sorry, I was not thinking clearly yesterday. I did have a Fox take a gosling last year just, in the heat of the moment I couldn't remember which gosling it was. Yes I met her at Roots and bought her two goslings. My kids and I stayed for an hour after we got them. They were stressed as you can imagine from traveling. I gave them water at least twice in that hour. We went home and put them in our quarantine pen as we normally do. Where they had plenty of fresh water and food. The one was acting a little funny but I thought it was just stress from traveling and being at a new location. The next morning I went to go take care of them and my other birds and the one gosling could not stand and was shaking, almost like a shiver. I didn't know what to do for it and turned to the normally great advise on byc. So yes, I did post those in an effort to try to figure out what had happened. The gosling died before we could come up with anything. I was heartbroken that it died. The other gosling, grew up here and was just fine till a few weeks ago when we had a Fox come. I didn't know there was a fox nearby until it showed up 15 feet from my backdoor and by then it was too late. The 2nd male goose that she had sold to me died trying to save his mate. My female is still mourning his departure.
The truth is neither one of us knows why the first gosling died. Either one of us could have been at fault. But for anyone to say i didn't try everything I could to save the gosling would be wrong. I wish it never happened. I felt horrible about it and still do. I have saved many animals ( alot from Roots as jkzimm 04 said) the gosling though had me totally stumped.
Sorry this was so long but now you know.

Edited other posts as requested. Sorry
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Okay lets try to possibly make some sense of this. Lets ask a couple of questions. How old were the goslings? Did they need heat? If you put heat on them could they have over heated? If they were young with no heat, were they cold? Did you give them water high enough for there beak? Did you add anything to the water they might not have liked the taste of (electrolytes, vitamins etc...). Could you have accidentally given them medicated feed?
 
Another question. I have 5 roosters to chose from for my flock. 1 wellsummer, 1 Speckled sussex, 1 FBCM, 1 Olive egger and, 1 EE. The wellsummer is my moms and he is a big but very nice boy, takes good care of his hens. The speckled sussex is the one i have now. He is about 5 months old. Easy to work with, but aggressive to other chickens and really like to let them know he is top dog, doesn't seem to look out for his girls as much as the other roo's do. The FBCM is laid back and very pretty, perfect coloring and leg feathers. The olive egger is one of my sweetest chickens and takes good care of the hens. The EE is very nice and laid back as well, but i have seen him chase a hen or two... Choices choices..... This is for my layer flock. I hate to see them go to freezer camp, but i just can't keep so many boys.... Any one need a pet rooster? LOL
 

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