I'm okay. It's pretty hard going. I'm lucky or not in having known over 100 chickens that are either dead or out of touch. You can't have that many heart breaks and live if you haven't found some way of coping without loss of compassion. All the more reason to spend time with your chickens when you can. They could be gone tomorrow.
I just hope she learns what it's like to be given mouldy food dirty water and be a neglected. She won't though people like that get the best of everything in lifeSounds okay where the chickens go!
Don’t have high hopes that C will change. Personally I don’t expect C seeing ever the light concerning chickens and good manners.
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Even if you didn't get a chance to form an attachment like you had with the chickens that shared your life in Spain, it must feel strange seeing them leave like this and having no say at all after having cared for them every day for more than a year. I hope you take some confort in knowing you made their fate somewhat better. And I think the time you spent with them maybe also gave you some valuable things- pleasure, knowledge, and being useful doing something you're good at.
There are three words I don't understand in there. Would something like he needs a cold shower convey the global meaning?
A cold shower would certainly do him a little good
That's very kind Shad. Will you continue to visit?
It's not for me to say anything for their future life but hopefully those caring people could help by finding someone else to look after Henry and his family. My nerves would be shattered worrying about them left with the selfish C .I had a long talk with C. I got to hear somethings that rang true based on what I already know. Whether because C knows how hard it would be to re-home Henry, or she's aware that he's too old to be re-homed, or she really wants to keep him and a few hens still we have come to an arrangment. C's original idea was to move the small broody coop into their back garden and keep Henry and some hens in the small coop. The small coop isn't fit to house more than two.
It seems that C did in fact use the groups money to pay for half the new coop.
This needs to be returned to the group. C has some money for this and maybe a couple of hundred pounds more. I've offered to finish the coop door and a few other small things and said I was prepared to donate the coop if they kept Henry and 3 or 4 hens. The feed bill would be manageable, the cleaning is easy and with the coop extension would provide enough room for Henry and three hens in both coop space and allowing a bit more than ten square feet of ground space per bird. C said they want to pay for the coop but couldn't raise enough money at the moment. The whole new coop with extension would cost close to £800.00 for materials. I offered to sell it to them for £300 paid at £50.00 per month.
This would mean Henry gets to stay with the remaining hens. Someone is bound to complain about Henry's crowing but the is no legal reason why roosters cant be kept as far as we know. It's worth the risk to me and as C said any complaint could be a long process.
