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Its sad

RaspberryMuffin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:25:32 GMT

Just today my mom told me that tomorrow we might have to put my favourite pet white silky chicken down her name is (Vanilla Lawrence Byles) she has a big bulge on her foot and either its an infection or a tumor idk how to spell it but today she tripped and she cant even carry her own weight even though shehad like a 2 and a half weeks off eating we don’t know why she wasn’t eating but i think it is the end of the road for her now. Can anyone relate But really sad time for a 13 year old who raised her all by himself and gave her pats every day

.R.I.P

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RaspberryMuffin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:18:23 GMT

Its offical everyone we are putting her down today 😭😢😭😢😭😢

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Croix — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:32:15 GMT

Dear RaspberryMuffin~

It really is a heart-breaking time. Chooks do have thier own very definite personalities, likes, dislikes and favorite place and people. We has one that wanted to be carried everywhere and sent all its time rubber-necking to catch sight of al it could from up high, and another that fearlessly chased away everything in sight, including humans and the dog - no particular reason, just felt agro I guess.

Do you have any more chooks or other pets?

Croix

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RaspberryMuffin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:46:08 GMT

Yea i have 3 other silke chickens a brown/ginger one called(jinger) a black silke called (midnight) and another silke thats gery body and darker grey head/pompom called (thunder)

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RaspberryMuffin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:51:38 GMT

And we also have lots of aussie birds come to our house like a rainbow lorikeet we call (peet) and he’s really trusti he will fly down and land on ur shoulder and stuff eat out of ur hand that kinda stuff but there wild not ours but we feed the othre birds to and so like kookaburras,kockatoos,ravens and migpies will take food from ur hand only. And sometimes welook after family/friend pets if there gone yea thats it really seya Rbmuffin

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RaspberryMuffin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:52:57 GMT

Have u read any of my other stories

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Croix — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:32:10 GMT

Dear RaspberryMuffin~

Wow, you certainly have a way with birds, you must be very patient for them all to come down and feed from your hand. What sort of stuff do you feed them?

We used to look after baby wallabies if their mother had been killed. They took a spacial mix of milk as they could not drink cows milk. They were fun, we had a huge enclosure to keeps dogs and cats out and they had plenty of places to go in the bushes after they grew out of being in a bag. The bag was like their mother's pouches.

When they were old enough we'd take them to a special place in a national park and release them -they seemed to do ok and would get handouts from the tourists.

I'm glad you have some more chooks to give a pat to.

I did look at the only other place I could find you had written, which was about your girlfriend. I'm sorry tihngs are not the best however Sophie M has given good advice for you to text the Kids Help Line and eHeadspace

Croix

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RaspberryMuffin — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:26:02 GMT

We feed them like a mix some dried cranberys corn stuf like that and the lorikeets shell less sunflour seed and apple juice the magpies ravens curawongs and cookabarus we feed mince meet and the other parrots we feed seed

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Croix — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:33:06 GMT

Dear RaspberryMuffin~

You certainly go to a great deal of trouble to give each the exact type of food that is good for it, it must be tasty too because the keep on coming back. Must be fun feeding them all. Do you do it by yourself or with the family?

Our young wallabys went onto wallaby food , a sort of pellet, once they had finished drinking milk. They were gradually encouraged to nibble grass and shrubs instead until they were independent

I think they got a bait peeved about this because they were partial to human breakfasts too. I sometimes used to take my coffee and toast into the enclosure to a bench and seats.

One would hop up onto hte table, sick its snoot in my coffee mug (it was not that hot) and then edge closed to my toast and jam. The strategy worked as I'd end up giving it a small corner of a slice of toast. It would then hop back down.

Several did this over the years, not a learned habit as they never knew each other, I tended to drink most of my coffee in a hurry before anything happened - did not fancy it after a snoot had been in.

Is any of the other chooks one you raised and give pats to now?

Croix

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RaspberryMuffin — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:23:01 GMT

Yea i pat ginger now but recently i have been really stressed about biverwack wich is this air force cadets came and i v just been really worried and nervous about it and its tomorrow so it sucks but yea

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Croix — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:21:58 GMT

Dear RaspberryMuffin~

I'm glad Ginger is getting a bit of attention.

By the time you read this the bivouack will have started , if you are leaving Saturday morning it might only be a week end one will give you just enough time to see all the interesting things.

When you get back I'd be really interested in your impression. I've done scout ones and they were pretty tame except we had to take turns cooking, which had pretty mixed results.

Croix.