Time to Say Good-Bye

[what's kickin' chicken]

keep them,you can always find a good home later..... I can tell you really care about them, maybe you could ask one of the kids to take over clean up duty for a week...sometimes a break from all the cleaning helps maybe your just feeling overwhelmed right now..and need a little break..

 

[YYZ]

You will miss them. They will miss you . (Do ducks or chickens have feelings like that?)

 

[drdoolittle]

The funny thing is, that I don't mind cleaning up after them at all. I just have a concern about if we go away for a weeks vacation this summer, and all the work whoever I get to take my place will have to do. I thought if the ducks and geese weren't here, the person wouldn't have to completely empty and re-fill all the water buckets every day----they could just top them off. But whoever I do get is going to be paid well, so I guess it wasn't worth all the stress I put myself through.

I do love them so----the brown Chinese goose is so funny to see when she sort of runs from me----now I know why the Nazi march was called the "goose-step"!

 

[DuckDuckDuckGoose]

LOL! "The goose step"
Well, doing all those chores is what you pay good money for someone to do it. So when you go on vacation RELAX! cause you have the work to come home to.

Tina

 

[what's kickin' chicken]

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[FunnyBunnies12]

LOL, I to have 2 boys 18mths a part and both ADHD and believe me, the 11 ducks and 1 goose(Sebastopol) and my 10 house rabbits, 2 cats, 2 guinea pigs, 1 deaf great dane are NOT as much work to clean up then my two boys are who destructively mess my place up as soon as I turn around after I cleaned it up, and both boys are 11yrs old and 12 1/2yrs old, pre-teens. And one poster said maybe having your kids pitch in for a week or so as simple as feeding them, or collecting eggs, the simplest help goes a long way for a very tired burned out momma. And here I am debating on incubating a double yolk egg to see if I have viable twins and if they'll make it to full development and hatch. I'm glad you are keeping them, just a little help from your kids and dh will rejuvinate you, even if you say you don't mind, it's that "One more thing on the TO-DO list."

 

[DuckDuckDuckGoose]

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SEEEEEEEEEEE look at all the work you do and you don't get any money for doing the chores! LOL
Thanks for the laugh,
T.

 

[drdoolittle]

Well, I eventually came to the decision to part with my duck and geese. It was hard, but I had the other animals to think of, and it seems much more peaceful to me. My co-worker did end up buying them. When I took them over, the 2 Khaki Campbells I had sold him earlier in the year came running through the barnyard past me and my sister, so I feel better about the situation. The co-worker showed us his new chicks (he does that every time I'm over there, and tells me what kind they are and the history of that particular breed). He also showed the bunnies that had been born that week, and his ewes and lambs and rams. He and his wife shear both the sheep and rabbits, and his wife spins it-----really cool. I'm sure the ducks and geese will be fine there.

 

[70%cocoa]

I'm glad that it seems to be a good outcome. It sounds like they have gone to a caring home where animals are valued. I'm sure they'll be happy and will settle in very quickly. I think that often we think that only we can provide the ideal home for animals we've raised, but it's not true. There are a lot of good homes out there and it seems that you have done a good job of finding one for your birds.