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EVEN WORSE NEWS! The chick that my aunt gave to me yesterday died today! :'( This really sucks because now my mum thinks that I'm taking all my anger from the deaths, and the pressure added with my college work, and dumping it on her..I really don't blame her (well apart from the fact that she took the risk of leaving the cub door open) and I don't want her to turn the anger that I dumped on her around to me, because I really don't want to deal with it, what with an exhibition of my years work at college being planned next week...I just really need a weekend break to chill...that's likely! My nan, grandad, aunt and cousins are going away for a week, leaving me and my mum to look after the two dogs they left, and our own, plus the baby chicks, AND the new rescue chickens we're getting tomorrow... *sigh* I'm sorry I'm telling you this, as you may have problems of your own and need a break as well, but I really needed to vent..
So R.I.P. baby chick as well.

/RANT.
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I woke up as normal this morning and I went to brush my teeth, when my mum came in and told me that a fox had got to ALL of our chickens. Nothing was left but feathers and I was devastated. I'd grown so attached to our chickens, and even foolishly given them names. I cried for at least an hour before I had to go to college, and even then my mum asked if I was fit to drive. She blames herself because she left a small gap for the chickens to get out of their cub early enough so that mum wouldn't have to do it later in the morning. I cried again when I got to college thinking about how we had raised 5 of the 10 we had, and how we had looked after one of the older ones.

So when I came home, my aunt came round with a baby chick from the batch of 5 we hatched off from her chickens, and it's wings and feathers had been pecked at by its mother, saying that I could have it to raise and look after. While I thought about the chickens we had just lost, and the attachment I had with them, I couldn't not help by feel that I had to look after it because it was different from it's half brothers and sisters. Therefore, I named him The Joker.

R.I.P.
Cocky
Beaky
White Boy
Twin 1
Twin 2
Jebus/Jesus
Mary Magdelan
Nelson Mandela
Bob Marley
Micheal Angelo

You will be missed greatly.