Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[pennyJo1960]

Hello x batts. I am so sorry of her passing Shad.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

New follower, been quietly reading & just caught up.
So sorry to read about Lima but as others have said, she managed to live her best chicken life when you arrived & made the very most of it. Feel privileged to have been a remote part of her all too short life.


Lots of Tax for lurking in the background for so long

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I’m taller than you! 4 weeks old & new friends / rival
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With Beryl/Errol & Minnie at 6 weeks old
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family bath time last December
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Happy hatchday
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Welcome to this thread.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

She fought hard, but my poor sweet Skeksis took her last breath this morning. She will be buried beside her beloved Mr. Bumble. I am absolutely devastated. I have never had a pet like her and never will again.

@no fly zone My condolences to you.

The memories you have cannot be taken away.

She may be gone, but I feel they are always with us keeping watch over us.

 

[MaryJanet]

She fought hard, but my poor sweet Skeksis took her last breath this morning. She will be buried beside her beloved Mr. Bumble. I am absolutely devastated. I have never had a pet like her and never will again.

I'm so sorry for your loss

 

[Shadrach]

How do you all feel about giving mercy to a dying animal? Hastening the death to prevent any further suffering.

It depends on what the problem is. I'm less inclined to kill them than I was.
I came to a point where I was questioning exactly whose suffering I was trying to avoid, mine or theirs. I couldn't find a satisfactory answer.

 

[Shadrach]

Yes, I do as well. I like to fill the space with love. I like for the dying to know they will be missed, but are free to go. I like to wonder where the spirit/life energy/Animus --whatever it is -- goes. Einstein was a great aficionado of different spiritual philosophies, and many of his biographers say that his works on energy were greatly inspired by how systems other than Western view death. His view that energy cannot expire, but only take another form is one example.

And yes, modern Western society has denied the actually quite wondrous mystery of death and turned it into some dirty thing one sticks in a drawer.

I wouldn't say I'm a Tibetan Buddhist, but when I read "The Book of the Dead" many years ago, it made so much more sense! There's nothing morbid or depressing about it at all. The whole gist is that if one accepts and acknowledges that death is always imminent, then one lives each day in a manner that does justice to being alive, and dies with no, or at least far fewer, regrets.

I have that book and I've read it a few times.

 

[Shadrach]

Four hours today. Another lovely day. Not as warm as yesterday which suits me and the chickens and a light South Westerly wind helping to keep us cool even in direct sunlight.
Fret is missing Lima. They were great friends and foraging mates. Fret is having a slow moult but she's acting less tired then she was and is eating properly again.

 

[MaryJanet]

I have that book and I've read it a few times.

I was with mum when she died and missed dad by a few hours, although I'd put him to bed the night before. For me, closeness to death was indeed very helpful in negotiating the emotions that followed.

 

[fuzzi]

It depends on what the problem is. I'm less inclined to kill them than I was.
I came to a point where I was questioning exactly whose suffering I was trying to avoid, mine or theirs. I couldn't find a satisfactory answer.

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My condolences to all who have experienced losses.

Yesterday I got a card in the mail from the funeral home that handled my dad after he passed away last September. It was a birthday card (he would have been 95 tomorrow if he'd lived), but addressed to me, and in remembrance. I was touched by that simple little act of caring.

 

[Sally PB]

I was with mum when she died and missed dad by a few hours, although I'd put him to bed the night before. For me, closeness to death was indeed very helpful in negotiating the emotions that followed.

I missed my mom's passing by about half an hour. It is one of the biggest regrets I have, one of those, "If you could relive an hour/day of your life what would you redo?" moments.