{"id":14790,"date":"2016-04-04T17:42:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=14790"},"modified":"2016-04-04T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:42:25","slug":"feeling-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=14790","title":{"rendered":"Feeling sad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am feeling sad today about re homing girls once more. I was quite tearful about it last night.<\/p>\n

I decided that I needed to remind myself why I had to do this. I looked through photos of the girls when this was happening before.<\/p>\n

\"Amber\"<\/a>

Amber<\/p><\/div>\n

This was Amber in May, two years ago. She has a lovely red comb and face and is giving me the chat like she always did but she looks dreadful with her plucked head and neck. I simply could not let this happen again.<\/p>\n

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The girls enjoy a broccoli stalk<\/p><\/div>\n

This was Amber, left of Honey, in April last year the day before she died. The next morning I found her dead by the pop hole at first light. She had a great last day all over the broccoli stalk and was looking really good. It was an awful shock when she went so suddenly but she had enjoyed her last year without being plucked.<\/p>\n

I just could not go back to those days. I am sure Topaz and Honey will be as happy on the farm as Pepper and Dotty and my little flock of six can keep their feathers. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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