Yesterday she was lethargic.
Today she was lopsided and getting walked all over. Literally.
So she came inside and spent the day in a box:
Next to my babysitting charge:
Yup, I'm babysitting the chick neighbour A found on the road and rescued. With my luck I spent the day feeding on peeping demand a baby crow or something. Who knows. I tried telling neighbour A that I don't think fancy department store bread soaked in milk is typical baby bird food and don't get her hopes up.
But totally crappy luck the bloody bird is still peeping away, is practising flying and entertaining the girls 'Mummy! it HOPPED!!!' and has eaten an entire slice of fancy bread.
And my poor beautiful chook? She didn't make it. I spent all my free time today (in between three classes in three different towns) mixing up magic chooky potion: hard boiled egg yolk, yoghurt, grated apple, oatmeal and a drop of honey and she was really looking better and then after dinner Amy was talking to her, well actually yelling at her 'Get better NOW please!' when she had a convulsion and just died. I think I get amazingly truthful mummy points for not telling A it was the yelling that did it. Passed up the opportunity for a quiet life in the name of honesty... Saint me now...
I have been reading about chook diseases all evening and it could be half a dozen dire diseases and then it could be nothing at all- just one of those things....
It's times like these I know I'm not a real farmer 'cause this stuff makes me sad...
RIP crook chook. Hope you're top of the pecking order and surrounded by all the scratchable weed filled ground your little heart could desire.
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So so sorry to hear of your chicken's demise! Let's just say you are a farmer with a big heart! Look forward to hearing how you explain it all to the girls.
Maybe she got the call to audition for MJ's big concert in the sky :)
Sorry to hear about your loss! She was kinda cute ;)
Awww, what a shame... Hope the girls take it OK.
OH :( Was this one of your new chooks? What a shame.
RIP little one.
Sorry to hear about your chicken. You are a better farmer than we considering the time and dedication you spent trying to save it.
We also have a hen now that can not even eat. She will not last long so we plan to either do the deed today for practice (we have yet to actually kill a bird with our own hands), or else set her free to he mountain and let some other animal do the honors (we don't want to eat her because we don't know what sickness she is suffering from - as you wrote, there are many "possible" sicknesses listed in the book).
OH I am so sorry... that made me terribly sad and sad for you and the girls = (
I think I've been a bit lopsided and walked all over lately!! perhaps I should be taken inside and put in a box too!
Maybe she's up there moonwalking with the best of them.
Awwwwww, poor chook.
Whoa what happened to the comment I left? Was it too offensive? If so, I apologize. Sorry.
I haven't done anything to the comments, Priscilla. Maybe it didn't go through properly?
Now I'm all interested in what you wrote!
Thanks for the quick response.
Here is what I wrote the first time: Sorry to hear about your chook. Thank you though for not showing any gory pictures of the aftermath!
I don't think there is anything rude about it. The comment probably didn't get through for some reason. Aww... I really wish to stay online to read blogs all day but I have so much to do...
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