Bush eggs: none. Nest box eggs: one – caused by shock! Feed hopper: full. Amount of grief in the world: immense.
A CAT has taken one of Steve’s chicks! Steve is DISTRAUGHT. Steve kept on saying she only turned her back for a moment but the chicks were getting “so independent” and “running off a lot”. It appears it was the little rooster who’d taken off to tag along with the Boys. It’s SO hard to get the balance right – you want to keep them under your wing and safe forever, but the day they are born you have to start letting them go. Independence is critical for the development of little chicks but they are so small and so fragile. The poor remaining chick is going to have a hard time growing up independent; ‘only’ chicks are often a bit strange/selfish from being overprotected.
Oh, poor Steve. Oh, Dear Me. Oh, WICKED cat!
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