As I have been busy I have not been posting, but as always very nice birds folks... My 2 girls are maturing nicely, I will try and get new photos of my not-sumtras, just so you all can see how the chicks have filled and patterned out. If I could only have a rooster... I would start a little learning project with those girls and a Sumatra Bantam Roo and an additional bantam hen. The birds make me happy. I think the lighter one might have a gene that dilutes black, as where the black should be she is grey/blue. Not sure as I am still learning the genotype to phenotype... but that is what it looks like to me.
I was able to visit the grandkids in Virginia thanks to folks who have been helping my husband and I with his cancer, my extra work load and so on. It was a great visit.
All the animals where cared for in our abscence and the chickens look very healthy so I know the care givers where taking care of the 2 cats and 1 dog too, but on the day we travelled back to CA our dog died. I feel so bad, I know she was fed & watered and was healthy appearing, I also know she was older and had to have tumors of such a bizarre type removed from her the Vets involved took photos to show friends (including me & I actually got to see the tumor too) and sent the tumors to the University as no one had ever seen anything like what she had, it honestly looked like Bubble Wrap. I doubt I could have done anything to save her but I still feel el sucko for not being here when she needed us. So day 2 of being home, and missing the silly dog... working on putting a raised flower bed over her burial spot... sigh. I can barely handle the dog dying, what if hubby does not make it? His cancer is weird too... adults don't get the kind he has per the doctors so they are guessing on care.
I was able to visit the grandkids in Virginia thanks to folks who have been helping my husband and I with his cancer, my extra work load and so on. It was a great visit.
All the animals where cared for in our abscence and the chickens look very healthy so I know the care givers where taking care of the 2 cats and 1 dog too, but on the day we travelled back to CA our dog died. I feel so bad, I know she was fed & watered and was healthy appearing, I also know she was older and had to have tumors of such a bizarre type removed from her the Vets involved took photos to show friends (including me & I actually got to see the tumor too) and sent the tumors to the University as no one had ever seen anything like what she had, it honestly looked like Bubble Wrap. I doubt I could have done anything to save her but I still feel el sucko for not being here when she needed us. So day 2 of being home, and missing the silly dog... working on putting a raised flower bed over her burial spot... sigh. I can barely handle the dog dying, what if hubby does not make it? His cancer is weird too... adults don't get the kind he has per the doctors so they are guessing on care.
