02-12-2018, 08:35 AM
Not really mad, just sad.
The bad thing about caring for livestock and making the mistake of treating them like pets is that stuff dies. It's really, really easy for anything to die. Even if you're doing everything right, they will still surprise you and die in the most surprising of ways.
I've seen calves die from a simple rainy night, not even a full storm, just because their mommas didn't move them to the hay. Dogs sometimes get hit by cars or even get into poison somehow. I've seen ducks who flew out of the coop get eaten by predators. Just last week, we amputated a ducks leg after she got attacked by something overnight or flew into something at a bad angle, snapping the foot off at the knee. I hope she will make it. A few quail die at least every month because they just aren't that intelligent and find ways to off themselves. It isn't pretty and it's horrible, because you put so much effort in and keep them sheltered, warm, hydrated, fed nutritious food, and stuff still goes and dies.
Last fall, I decided that, hey, what if I buy a certain breed and try to raise them for money? So, I got a pair of Mandarin ducks. I did my research, got all the supplies, everything. They cost quite a bit of my own money but I thought it would be worth it, because they have such beautiful plumage and bird people love them. They were supposed to lay eggs in the fall, this fall, but it didn't happen... I decided to wait until the next one, because hey, I liked them anyway and I was willing to wait forever.
Anyway, after making it through like two years with zero problems, snow, ice, rain, thunderstorms, high winds, all while having a nice big aviary, swimming pool, clean water, and feed, the Mandarin drake dies in the pool. He was literally frozen under the ice this morning, I had to break him out. I don't know what happened, if something scared him and he died or if he drowned or what.
This is the worst.
The bad thing about caring for livestock and making the mistake of treating them like pets is that stuff dies. It's really, really easy for anything to die. Even if you're doing everything right, they will still surprise you and die in the most surprising of ways.
I've seen calves die from a simple rainy night, not even a full storm, just because their mommas didn't move them to the hay. Dogs sometimes get hit by cars or even get into poison somehow. I've seen ducks who flew out of the coop get eaten by predators. Just last week, we amputated a ducks leg after she got attacked by something overnight or flew into something at a bad angle, snapping the foot off at the knee. I hope she will make it. A few quail die at least every month because they just aren't that intelligent and find ways to off themselves. It isn't pretty and it's horrible, because you put so much effort in and keep them sheltered, warm, hydrated, fed nutritious food, and stuff still goes and dies.
Last fall, I decided that, hey, what if I buy a certain breed and try to raise them for money? So, I got a pair of Mandarin ducks. I did my research, got all the supplies, everything. They cost quite a bit of my own money but I thought it would be worth it, because they have such beautiful plumage and bird people love them. They were supposed to lay eggs in the fall, this fall, but it didn't happen... I decided to wait until the next one, because hey, I liked them anyway and I was willing to wait forever.
Anyway, after making it through like two years with zero problems, snow, ice, rain, thunderstorms, high winds, all while having a nice big aviary, swimming pool, clean water, and feed, the Mandarin drake dies in the pool. He was literally frozen under the ice this morning, I had to break him out. I don't know what happened, if something scared him and he died or if he drowned or what.
This is the worst.
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Gamzee Makara Wrote:S’aight. After all, dogs have a tendency to motherfuckin’ bite.