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pacificpikachuEugenie's duckling is dead. It's all my fault. I feel so terrible about it, ughhh, I don't even know what to do. I decided to put Eugenie and the duckling in the sun in a separate little pen in the chicken coop so they didn't have to be in the stuffy henhouse any more. Birds can get in and out of that pen, including guinea fowl, but usually whatever I put in that pen stays fairly safe. The duckling was around two weeks old or something, but it was getting big, and Eugenie was doing a good job mothering it.
I went to check on them just now, just two or so hours after I put them out, and the baby was dead in the dirt with the back of its head pecked. Probably a victim of the guinea fowl or the male ducks or could've been pretty much any of the birds.
I just feel so terrible. I could've SO easily put it them somewhere safer, in the serama coop or the back yard, or just ANYWHERE else, and avoided all of this, but no, I thought they'd be okay there despite my better judgment. I feel so terrible about it, I'm crying and I have a headache. ;____; I'm so sorry little duckling, I'm so sorry... I didn't think your life would end like this. I feel so awful for Eugenie, this was her first duckling she ever hatched on her own and raised. It was thriving, just a little earlier it was playing in the water and it was so darn cute.
I HATE deaths like this, just hate them. I feel so bad. And then if I try to move on and have a good time despite what happens, I feel bad about that, too, like I'm doing the animal a disservice and not honoring its life even though moping around and crying my eyes out doesn't change anything or help anyone.
I should just go to dad's and get my package and work on sales and do everything I planned on doing today, but I just feel guilty and sad. The poor duckling didn't deserve to die that way at all... I just wish I could go back in time and put them somewhere else. If I had, the baby would have been alive and well still. I know could and should and woulds don't do any good, but I just can't help but regret and feel so upset about what happened.
I went to check on them just now, just two or so hours after I put them out, and the baby was dead in the dirt with the back of its head pecked. Probably a victim of the guinea fowl or the male ducks or could've been pretty much any of the birds.
I just feel so terrible. I could've SO easily put it them somewhere safer, in the serama coop or the back yard, or just ANYWHERE else, and avoided all of this, but no, I thought they'd be okay there despite my better judgment. I feel so terrible about it, I'm crying and I have a headache. ;____; I'm so sorry little duckling, I'm so sorry... I didn't think your life would end like this. I feel so awful for Eugenie, this was her first duckling she ever hatched on her own and raised. It was thriving, just a little earlier it was playing in the water and it was so darn cute.
I HATE deaths like this, just hate them. I feel so bad. And then if I try to move on and have a good time despite what happens, I feel bad about that, too, like I'm doing the animal a disservice and not honoring its life even though moping around and crying my eyes out doesn't change anything or help anyone.
I should just go to dad's and get my package and work on sales and do everything I planned on doing today, but I just feel guilty and sad. The poor duckling didn't deserve to die that way at all... I just wish I could go back in time and put them somewhere else. If I had, the baby would have been alive and well still. I know could and should and woulds don't do any good, but I just can't help but regret and feel so upset about what happened.
