Cheery's country living adventure

Cheery_Daff

Ha - good timing for a day of financial sorting - had an email from YNAB saying my payment card had been declined :rotfl: It's only because I lost my card, so the one they've got is the old one, but good to get it sorted out today rather than forgetting about it...

Cheery_Daff

Right! This is where we are with finances...

YNAB up to date & payment details updated.

NW account opened & online banking set up
NW regular saver opened
TSB account opened & online banking set up
TSB regular saver opened

My plan for filtering dosh through them all and setting up standing orders was foiled as I transferred all our savings into the PO account last week (as planned) not realising I wouldn't be able to withdraw anything for 8 days :eek: :rotfl:

Still, list is made and on Friday there'll be no stopping me :rotfl:

And now I need to go to bed!

rtandon27

Sending big hugs your way Cheery - sorry to hear about the chooks.:(

Cheery_Daff

Thanks RT

Yes, quite traumatic day here - a stoat got into the hen house overnight through the air vent and killed Hermione & Luna Mildred & Maud have been to the vets, their neck wounds are superficial but they're deeply traumatised and have literally just been standing in one spot staring all morning

Vet reckons chickens are more resilient than other birds (who knew?!) so chances are they might make it. We've got them a hospital ward set up in my study with the heaters on to keep them cosy and they did just get mildly animated when I took them some yogurt and raspberries so that's a good sign I suppose.

Oddly some friends turned up at lunchtime unannounced (which has NEVER happened out here for obvious reasons) so that took us out of ourselves for a bit, but we're steeling our nerves for a stupidly emotional chicken burial this afternoon...

themadvix

So sorry to hear about Hermione and Luna I hope Mildred and Maud start to show some signs of recovery soon.

Be kind to yourselves (and M&M) - hugs x

Karmacat

Sorry to hear this, Cheery the more I think about it, the more awful it is



Thinking of you.

Cheery_Daff

Thank you ladies :kisses3: Certainly has been a traumatic day for all of us.

We sat with them for a while just now and they did have something to eat and drink as long as we were holding the bowls up to their beaks. Horrid to see them so listless and exhausted. They've barely moved all day

I've been mostly focused on the practical today, but occasionally have a flash to how awful it must have been for them at the time, and for these two to have to spend the rest of the night in their house no wonder they're traumatised

Mr Cheery has spotted the stoat twice again today (so that's four times today in total, when we've only ever seen it once before ever) - it's clearly got the idea that our chicken run is the place for a free snack.

Right now can't imagine sending the girls back out there again. Mr Cheery has been chasing it with a hoe (can't imagine he'll ever catch it but I think it makes him feel better to do something...)

We'll see what tomorrow brings I suppose.

Didn't get round to our burial today, too concerned with pandering to the patients, so that's a job for the morning. Sigh. We'll bury them amongst the fruit trees I think

Busy_Mee1

Aw Cheery that has been clearly traumatic for you and them. Hope your two girls recover soon x

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Busy Mee :kisses3:

Oddly enough we were saying just yesterday that we were kind of prepared for them to be eaten by a fox at some stage (given that they are mostly completely free range), and that we'd rather that than keep them penned in all the time 'just in case'.

As it turned out, being penned in would have been no use anyway - this thing struck while they were all 'safely' tucked into the locked hen house in a locked run :eek: :eek:

Largely blaming myself for not realising what a small hole would leave them vulnerable And I read so many books about chicken keeping too! :eek: But I suppose you can't take in literally everything. The ventilation holes are less than an inch wide, and I suppose I always thought that nothing could get through them, and that a stoat wouldn't kill a fully grown chicken anyway (I knew they took eggs and sometimes chicks).

Just goes to show.

Mildred and Maud safely tucked into their temporary accommodation and have at least snuggled into the box we put in there for them to sleep in.

VERY grateful for working at home at the minute, at least I can keep an eye on them (and had time to take them to the vets earlier).

PurpleFairy26

Oh cheery so sorry to hear about the girls big hugs to you. Hope mr cheery manages to scare off the bl**dy thing.