rachels.haven's Journal

[farmerjan]

They are traveling to find mates or to lay eggs once it gets warmer. They are a menace, will devour ducks and ducklings in the water. I realize that there is a need for them as a balance in nature.... but I hate 'em.

 

[rachels.haven]

Not farm animals, but here are newborn guinea pigs. Mini adults already eating solid food. Nature's little Cheetos. These ones aren't too crazy. Last batch was.

 

[Bruce]

Someone gave me 5 sexed month old female pekin ducklings that they bought for their daughters to play with over quarantine than realized they were in too deep as they ballooned in size

And so it starts.

 

[rachels.haven]

And so it starts.

The flood of unwanted quarantine poultry?

 

[CntryBoy777]

Turtles will also eat eggs....my grandpa used to kill every terrapin he saw.....he hunted quail way back when and didn't want them eating the eggs..... ....I used to have a guinea pig as a pet when I was in 8-9th grade.

 

[rachels.haven]

I don't think I'd kill the turtles that didn't pose a threat to the children, but I certainly understand that.

 

[Bruce]

The flood of unwanted quarantine poultry?

Yup. I'm sure more jumped into it without proper research first than those that did their prep work first.

 

[rachels.haven]

I had a sobering day today. I got a trio of Muscovy to help with the horses of deer flies from a lady in Fitchburg who is selling out partially to cut memory ties with her mother, who was in a nursing home when the virus swept through. So mom is now dead. Mom's friends they used to hang out with at the home are mostly dead (she said one pulled through). They used to sell duck eggs through that network so now their customer base is litterly gone anyway so they may as well sell the flock off. And they didn't get to say goodbye to any of their friends via funeral because for a while that was not allowed here. She was pretty broken up. Our nursing homes really failed the family and the residents here. She said that yes, they mostly all had dementia but they were good bright people and their lives were cut short. I'd never thought about all that before...not that I needed to, but maybe I did today.
Anyway, I look forward to the day when this can all just be a memory and we can look back and question if it was really that bad. That's a privilege. I want that opportunity. It sounds like other areas of the country are already bouncing back. Hurry up, Boston.

 

[rachels.haven]

...I mean, my in-laws friend in a nursing home died of it, but they were able to visit her and attend her funeral, and they expected her to go relatively soon of something. PA may have been a little kinder (although about as effective) in their handling of things. Better for closure.

 

[Baymule]

Hospitals did not allow family in to say good by, no last rites, nothing. No funerals, no contact, nothing. How sad, how empty for the families.