Part of the day was reserved for harvesting my extra roosters and Tom turkey. For most homesteaders I it's very important that the animals have a good life and good death. Sometimes it doesn't happen exactly as you hoped. Today was like that...it was time for these birds to go to freezer camp, they had lived good lives, running around and acting like what they were supposed to...like chickens and turkeys. Sadly the killing did not go as well as I had hoped....so it makes me very sad. It was as quick as we could but not as smoothly as we want it to be. It bothers me a lot and I know it was nothing I did on purpose and it is a learning experience but it is still very hard to deal with.
So I was dealing with that when I had a feeling I needed to check on my rabbits...there was just a bit of odd sounds from the rabbitry and my new doe had been pulling fur this morning. She had been bred by the original breeder on the 20th so was no where near term and I hadn't even palates her yet. Well I went in to check in everyone and there she was with 6 live babies!
Then the roller coaster went down when I realized one of my grey turkeys was totally missing. I had named her Thelma and my buff Louise because they were two trouble makers constantly finding ways to escape. However, they always stuck around the pen and eventually went in roosting for the. Igot. Louise was in the pen and it was sunset and Thelma nowhere to be seen....I looked around for her and no luck. :-(
So it has been one of those emotional up and down days.
I'm so sorry to hear about Thelma. Hopefully she just got a little lost and will come back soon. And sorry about the killing not going according to plan. But congrats on the baby buns! I can't wait to see pictures!
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