Sally's GF3 thread

[saysfaa]

I'm so sorry for your loss of your Sunny Girl.

 

[cavemanrich]

Sally
I also bury my pets.
Just a little tip. When you do bury her, take out of plastic. This way she returns to EARTH. Then cover the area with something heavy, so that she is not dug up by raccoons.
That is how I always do it. After one month, it is safe to remove covering,, and plant some flower seed for your memory

 

[Sally PB]

Thanks.

When you do bury her, take out of plastic.

Oh, absolutely.

Then cover the area with something heavy, so that she is not dug up by raccoons.

Yes. Plus, she'll be inside the fence.

I also dig down about 2 feet. That's what I've heard is enough earth above to keep critters from smelling the body below.

I'm thinking about putting her where I'm growing flowers for the honey bees. I just have to wait for the ground to thaw. Which might be later this week.

 

[NanaK]

I am so sorry for your unexpected loss of Sunny.

Be free sweet Sunny!

I totally understand the tears as I've been there several times myself. I bury my chickens too.
Always difficult.

 

[Sally PB]

I'm thinking about putting her where I'm growing flowers for the honey bees. I just have to wait for the ground to thaw. Which might be later this week.

It's thawed right now. Sunny is buried between the sage and the New England Asters.

Many more tears as I said goodbye. She was the sweetheart of the flock.

 

[fuzzi]

RIP SUNNY

This morning, when I opened the coop, I found my sweetheart lap chicken Sunny dead on the floor under the roost. I bawled like a baby. She wasn't even 2 years old.

Yesterday, she seemed perfectly fine. I petted her when I took them chickie snack in the afternoon. She is the only one who doesn't seem to mind my petting her.

I double bagged her and put her in the freezer. I'll bury her in the garden when the ground thaws. I could not do a necropsy. Just could not do it. Nor could I throw her out or in the burn barrel or leave her for a raccoon. Not my Sunny Bird.

My hens do not free range, and I have a roof over the run. If it's AI, I am the vector. I see no sign of anyone else being sick, so I don't think it's AI.

I took them chickie snack this afternoon and cried again because she wasn't there.

Fly high and free, my beautiful Sunny Girl.
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I'm very sorry. I lost Joel at 11 months, he had a seizure and died in front of me. No idea why. He was a good boy.

 

[Sally PB]

It is PI Day. (3.14)

I shall celebrate by having my annual boobie squishing.

I doubt I can find any GF pie close by, so I'll do something health oriented.

 

[Sally PB]

Last day of winter: 68°
First day of spring: 38°

Hello from Michigan!

 

[Sally PB]

I've been doing some garden prep. Hands-and-knees weeding on some of the raised beds, and around some of the "bee flower" area. The chickens get the weeds for snack time. I call it, "green snack."

Weeds gone (or slowed down, anyway)
Chickens happy

Win-win.

 

[Sally PB]

Has anyone heard from @aart? I'm getting worried. She hasn't been on BYC in a week or more, that I've seen.