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[Jessica Rabbit]

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Thank you sooooo much! They are taking donations on Friday afternoon at the school, I believe it is after 2:00pm. Anything that is nice and in good condition would be greatly appreciated for donations, I'm sure they would take cash donations as well although that isn't expected! Shopping would be great too on Saturday!

OK!! Friday afternoon I will bring over some baby stuff, and yes I will come on sat. too and I will try and bring jess with me!!

This is sooooooo unfair! Kenzie is BEGGING to do this to! One more year I guess!

 

[Chickaholic]

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OK!! Friday afternoon I will bring over some baby stuff, and yes I will come on sat. too and I will try and bring jess with me!!

This is sooooooo unfair! Kenzie is BEGGING to do this to! One more year I guess!

Jess- you can still come to the gsale!! I don't even know if wa4hpoultrymom is in the same 4h we are, were just supporting this group on a whole right now, you should come with me on sat, there will probably be lots of good stuff!!!!

 

[Sparkelrose]

WOW I do not want to miss that many days again! I just read through 25 pages between all yesterday and this morning.

So I have had a sad 2 weeks. First I loose 2 of my best showgirl chicks to drowning then I lost 5 chicks to a ferral cat! I have a sand box in the pen with my chicks for water and I had just cleanded it out and gave them fresh water. I had to run and save my son from my rooster and forgot to put the brick in the water. The next day dead show girl, so I put the brick back in and the next day dead showgirl!

So i dumped the water and just gave them lots of bowls of water, but I have a duck that lives with them who thinks she is a chick and she needed more water. So I barely filled the turtle sand box with water so she could swim. It's been working great!

Then this new cat shows up and starts eating my chicks. First I noticed that one of them wasn't in the house one night, and then I found what was left of her in their own pen behind some tall grass the next morning. Well this momma hen was mad

so I weed wacked all the grass down. That night they were all there, but the next night when I did head count my fave polish was missing. I found him in the same spot as the other. So I set up our live trap the next morning. I caught 2 of my cats that day and the trap didn't get set back up that night... Sunday morning my hubby and I went out to eat didn't set up the trap and

When we got home we went in our hose and did some things then saw that cat in the pen and looking at my bunnies so we ran out. I did a head count and my #1 fave chick was missing as I am telling my hubby which is missing saying it's the boy my baby boy, he was saying don't come over here! He was over where we had found the othe bodies. That

cat had taken my sweet little couple ounce fully featherd starting to crow baby boy Jap bantom! I cried and cried and cried.

I have never ever wanted to kill a cat before but I sure wanted to then. We set the trap up again and we caught him yesterday morning. I took him to a barn that was a ways away and where he could hunt rats and mice and the owner wil put food out to keep that cats around.

Then that night as I am feeding my 12 chicks in another part of the property I realize the 2 of the younger chicks that were in the pen where every one was killed are missing too so that cat must have gotten them first. I have no clue when they dissapeared. They were there when we were having the problems with the water, but I can't remember when I saw them last. I am just about ready to throw in the towel on this chicken thing! I have lost so many to things that yes now I have learned from, but have killed my spirit. blah

Ok thanks for letting me rant guys!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

(((((Sparkelrose )))

So sorry about your babies.

Chickaholic, which 4-H club do you guys belong too? My kids are in Esprit de Corps based out of Snohomish. Have they shown at Evergreen State Fair? If so, we've probably bumped into each other!

 

[Chickaholic]

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So sorry!!!

 

[justbugged]

I am so sorry as I read of your troubles Sparkelrose

Over the years I have had more than a few of these things happen, I know it's hard to keep going but it is worth it. You will miss so much if you never take a chance. With all the Joy comes some some grief. As a mother that lost one of my daughters before the age of a year, I can say without a doubt that I am still profoundly grateful that I had the other 2 children. I only miss the the ones that I didn't have the courage to have. There is an art to moving forward. The hello if I know what it is some days.

 

[Jessica Rabbit]

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so very sorry

 

[Sparkelrose]

Thank you all for the hugs!

I kept asking my husband why can't he get the ones that I hatched (sounds bad) I can always hatch more mutts! I only named 2 chicks out of all them and he got one of them, Emma my Buff Orp from the feed store. I'm not giving up I just feel defeted right now.

Speaking of roosters to give away out of the 11 chicks I got in January 8 are roosters, anybody need one?

 

[Nyrial]

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N freaking O!

Seriously though, very sorry to hear of your losses. I'd be discouraged too. Sounds like a cat-skin cap in the making to me.. But I'm not a cat person either.

I'll have extra roosters too, I'd CL them, but I worry what their fate would be. If I knew it would be for the dinner table, I'd be okay with that, but these guys would likely be used for something else given their variety. I'm hoping I'm wrong though, and that there are more pullets than I think.

 

[justbugged]

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ROFLMAO It probably serve you right. Poor guy you must have done something to deserve a day a the g-sales. (P.S. If you haven't then you should be able to get away with something at least once)

P.S.S the I think that the ROFLMAO would have been funnier if I hadn't had to look it up in a online Urban dictionary.

P.S.S.S. Oh dear I told on myself

P.S.S.S.S. They don't give people like me addresses for nice places like this g-sale. Besides I think that I would need a day pass.

Girls like me aren't allowed off the farm much. I can shop way to much from the laptop.