Goodbye, The Salula...
Aug. 16th, 2010 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pacificpikachuI woke up this morning and went out in the fenced backyard area, and Minky was walking all around outside of her enclosure, the enclosure is about ten feet from where it normally is but still up, and The Salula is mysteriously gone. There are a few white feathers floating around, and then more by the dog kennel (which is several hundred feet away, across the property), so it seems...a predator somehow came and got her. This is a bit baffling, because Minky and Pen-Pen (who is not confined in the backyard, he just walks around freely) are untouched and perfectly fine, and I would think the dogs would alert me if an animal got in the fenced backyard. I'm rather baffled as to how this could have happened as well as sad.
I suppose, though, that The Salula can never die in such a way that I would know, that I would see. After all, she is not a chicken, but a God--she can only transcend this plane. There is no death for her.
I will miss her deeply, regardless... The world isn't going to feel right without her. I can't believe she is just gone so suddenly and strangely. She lives on somewhere, though--not in the form I knew her in, which was gradually dying anyway, but some other, splendid form. We will meet again, Salula. We will meet again.
On another sad note, it seems the cute and cute red cochin chick I bought isn't going to make it. I think she maybe has coccidiosis or something (it must be from the feed store as the serama chick is perfectly fine). I only caught her acting lethargic last night and now she's gone downhill a lot. It seems she has blood in her stool. Ugh, depressing. :( I wish I could do something, but I think it's too late for her now. The poor serama chick will have had two of its companions die now. I'm putting it out in the serama coop in a cage for now so hopefully the other seramas will gradually grow to accept it.
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This is just part of keeping chickens, though--when you have this many birds, you have losses on occasion. I mourn a little and then I push on, because that's all I can really do. There is new life in this hobby, and there is death, too. You cannot have one without the other, and I certainly have new life all the time. Splash's chicks should be hatching fairly soon, within the next few days likely.
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On a happier note, my T-J bill is almost paid off and will be quite soon, possibly by the end of today! I can't believe how well these sales went, I'm so happy and thankful to the community. ;; I'm thinking of letting everyone who ordered something pick out an item from the box, or get a little coupon for money off something from the box... I dunno, I just feel so happy that here I worried myself sick over this bill and all it took was posting some things I had lying around and voila, the bill is paid off. Comm rocks!
I suppose, though, that The Salula can never die in such a way that I would know, that I would see. After all, she is not a chicken, but a God--she can only transcend this plane. There is no death for her.
I will miss her deeply, regardless... The world isn't going to feel right without her. I can't believe she is just gone so suddenly and strangely. She lives on somewhere, though--not in the form I knew her in, which was gradually dying anyway, but some other, splendid form. We will meet again, Salula. We will meet again.
On another sad note, it seems the cute and cute red cochin chick I bought isn't going to make it. I think she maybe has coccidiosis or something (it must be from the feed store as the serama chick is perfectly fine). I only caught her acting lethargic last night and now she's gone downhill a lot. It seems she has blood in her stool. Ugh, depressing. :( I wish I could do something, but I think it's too late for her now. The poor serama chick will have had two of its companions die now. I'm putting it out in the serama coop in a cage for now so hopefully the other seramas will gradually grow to accept it.
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This is just part of keeping chickens, though--when you have this many birds, you have losses on occasion. I mourn a little and then I push on, because that's all I can really do. There is new life in this hobby, and there is death, too. You cannot have one without the other, and I certainly have new life all the time. Splash's chicks should be hatching fairly soon, within the next few days likely.
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On a happier note, my T-J bill is almost paid off and will be quite soon, possibly by the end of today! I can't believe how well these sales went, I'm so happy and thankful to the community. ;; I'm thinking of letting everyone who ordered something pick out an item from the box, or get a little coupon for money off something from the box... I dunno, I just feel so happy that here I worried myself sick over this bill and all it took was posting some things I had lying around and voila, the bill is paid off. Comm rocks!
