tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-380605413166707395.post2823776585260988656..comments2023-11-03T03:14:16.382-07:00Comments on Under A Prairie Sky...: The Quality of Mercy is Somewhat StrainedMadcaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557763096456837657noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-380605413166707395.post-1391209793612726492009-07-11T18:47:17.679-07:002009-07-11T18:47:17.679-07:00Hi Jules,
I should talk to my cat about this! Usu...Hi Jules,<br /><br />I should talk to my cat about this! Usually she doesn't bring it live, but currently she's trying to teach her kitten to hunt, so I think that's why they're still kicking.Madcaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07557763096456837657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-380605413166707395.post-13460191496493107742009-07-08T13:11:18.765-07:002009-07-08T13:11:18.765-07:00My cats and I have an agreement: If you bring it ...My cats and I have an agreement: If you bring it to me dead, you get to keep it. If you bring it to me still alive, I get it back.<br /><br />Sorry about the chicken but glad you dispatched of it properly.juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16351247097680979735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-380605413166707395.post-19330255767814680402009-07-07T14:53:55.196-07:002009-07-07T14:53:55.196-07:00e4 - Thanks for the perspective. I feel like I'...e4 - Thanks for the perspective. I feel like I'm doing my damndest and that should be enough to work miracles... but it isn't. Or maybe the miracle is any of them survive at all?!<br /><br />A'Laura - Mercy is very situational, isn't it? People, chickens, gophers. Not so much gophers though. They are the WORST nuisances; thank goodness for my gopher-hungry cat.<br /><br />Constantine - Yes. I wish my guts weren't so easily wrenched, because it's so hard on the heart to have the rest of the viscera lurching around like that.<br /><br />CG - We've lost close to 30% at this point, but we've also had a very cold, and now wet and windy, spring/summer. Something I've noticed, and it's a pleasant surprise in all this, is that we haven't had any pecking problems at all. Even the sick ones are left alone. My back-up plan was to put them back in the brooder pen in that case, but I haven't needed to. Or I didn't notice that I needed to, at any rate.<br /><br />I haven't got the hang of this dance yet, but I'll keep trying. Part of me wants to get out of this chickening altogether, but the tougher part just wants to do it better.<br /><br />My confirmation word is "whormick". <i>Sounds</i> very rooood, without actually <i>being</i> it.Madcaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07557763096456837657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-380605413166707395.post-23607601206671689612009-07-07T06:00:43.470-07:002009-07-07T06:00:43.470-07:00chickens die. I generally expect to lose 20% to s...chickens die. I generally expect to lose 20% to something. The trick when they are injured and sick, and I'm sure you know this from Salatin's stuff, is to get them out of the pecking order and to somewhere protected where they don't have to compete for food and water. Then they decide whether they live or die. <br /><br />now, having said the practical stuff, it IS amazing, isn't it, the life/death dance? And our part in it.CGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04542303804886924280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-380605413166707395.post-43002300025252224942009-07-06T09:41:10.760-07:002009-07-06T09:41:10.760-07:00Ah...my friend...very poignant post. Embracing th...Ah...my friend...very poignant post. Embracing the mystery of life with its point and counter point can be gut wrenching at times.Constantine https://www.blogger.com/profile/02399573462513951395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-380605413166707395.post-77135384036366076482009-07-05T21:01:22.900-07:002009-07-05T21:01:22.900-07:00Ah... endings... regret of beginnings... wondering...Ah... endings... regret of beginnings... wondering what is merciful... yes.<br /><br />Seems to be gopher suicide season on the roads. I hadn't hit one for years, and now two in a couple of weeks. Somebody was joking about what it means to swerve "for" a gopher...arcolaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09448256908335690710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-380605413166707395.post-76843298318751582009-07-05T14:40:49.213-07:002009-07-05T14:40:49.213-07:00I think it's too early to blame ineptitude. Ch...I think it's too early to blame ineptitude. Chickens are just fragile, especially the first year. Some are, well, fitter than others.e4https://www.blogger.com/profile/13435927076587347401noreply@blogger.com