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[3goodeggs]

Well. I am as sad as sad can be. Today my husband got a new job, which in and of itself is a good thing. We have to move house, which is ok too.

We are not allowed to take the chickens.

My chickens.

The ones who run to me with their little wings flapping and beaks open in chicken-y smiles. The ones I sit with in the run every day for an hour. The ones I hand raised and who just started laying.

One hasn't even laid yet actually.

I have to give them all up.

I am heartbroken and can't stop crying.

- Krista

I read misswiggles and sour's posts first and I thought something else...I am sorry about your chickens, but you are trying to make babies here, so please don't get too upset about the chickens.

Your husband has a job. You have embryos.
Positive thoughts young lady!

 

[scottcaddy]

Krista, So Sorry to hear the Bad News

Scott

 

[Chickenchick11]

So so so sorry Krista!

 

[WVduckchick]

I'm so sorry too. Try to find the silver lining. You may not see one right now, but it will turn up. ((hugs))

 

[sourland]

I read misswiggles and sour's posts first and I thought something else...I am sorry about your chickens, but you are trying to make babies here, so please don't get too upset about the chickens.

Your husband has a job. You have embryos.
Positive thoughts young lady!

Amen about setting the priorities. Dare we be excited about the emotionality?

 

[Mtn Margie]

I was kinda thinking the same thing, but really I think it is just stress.
Sorry about your chickens Krista.

I would focus on getting them a good home with visitation rights and go from there. Maybe, just maybe, not knowing what we are looking at house-wise ,
unless you are in an apartment in the city somewhere or a gated neighborhood or in the middle of a pit-bull farm, I guess we can't imagine you not being able to have chickens.....
but if you can't for sure, quail make a great substitute and give you phenomenal eggs in very little space.

and more

!!!!

 

[drumstick diva]

I am crying with you Krista but, please focus on the on you and little one. This move may turn out to be a great experience and open many more opportunities than just a new job.


Maybe you could have a house chicken or too -silkies and seramas take confinement very well.

 

[scottcaddy]

I am crying with you Krista but, please focus on the on you and little one. This move may turn out to be a great experience and open many more opportunities than just a new job.


Maybe you could have a house chicken or too -silkies and seramas take confinement very well.

I have heard it said by a few good and well respected people that Silkies do Not count as a chicken, They are a pet!
Scott

 

[drumstick diva]

From a distance silkies look like little foo foo dogs., or exotic small parrots.

 

[krista74]

Hi everyone.

I spent the whole day house hunting with hubby. Well, looking at the outside of houses - it's Saturday so nothing is open for inspection. The rental market here is tight. Not enough houses to go round, and if you own a pet you are right up against it. There is no way we will find a home we can take the chickens at a cost we can afford. We did find one place which accepts them, but it's way out of our budget. The chooks will be going to my brother's house.

He will give them a good home, if he can keep them alive. His 3 flocks were all decimated by foxes. He won't molly coddle them as I do. He won't sit in the run and talk to them, or pat them as I do. They won't have the big, wide comfortable roost with lots of space that I know they need. They can't even jump more than 30 cm because they are huge, and his roost is way up in the air. They will just be 'the chickens' and largely ignored but for food and water. Do you think they will adapt? Will they sleep on the floor? I am worried sick they will be frightened. They are so used to human attention, and they just won't be getting any. It darn near breaks my heart, but there is no other choice.

I know there are worse things that could happen. It's just that there is so much uncertainty and stress in my life at the moment. I don't know where I will live, or if the chooks will be ok, or if I will ever have a baby. I am just.....empty.

I'm sorry. I'm not very good company at the moment.

Krista