Our New Life in the Country: RIP Mona

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

RIP Mona

Today another of my lovely ladies went to meet her maker.

We're not sure exactly how, whether it be a fox or one of the many Red Kites that have been circling the farm so low each day looking for food. Her body was left behind so there is more reason to suspect a Red Kite swoop, she would have been a bit too heavy to carry off I think.

Whichever way, she is gone and now there are 7 White Girls, already they are staying closer together and close to the house. Tonight there will be a gap on the perches.

Missing you already, my Mona, the noisiest and most complaining of the chickens, so glad that you spent so many happy days here on our farm.

Sue xx

8 comments:

Country Cottage Chic27 October 2009 at 13:11
Aww! Poor Mona - it is so sad that they meet their end before their time. We have been lucky so far as we've only lost two & both died peacefully at night in their house.

Jayne
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Suzy's Vintage Attic27 October 2009 at 14:17
Sorry to hear about Mona. She must be missed! I have often thought that it must be hard keeping chickens with foxes or birds of prey around. We have foxes living very close by so it would be far too risky for us to have any.
Take care
Isabelle x
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Catherine27 October 2009 at 16:48
Aw! poor Mona!
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Bertie Meadows27 October 2009 at 20:21
Oh so sorry Sue, a touching tribute to Mona.
Bertie x
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Helen28 October 2009 at 00:39
I realize you 'sign up' for things like this when you take on farm life .... but it has to be really hard to lose one of your little family.
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Sue28 October 2009 at 09:27
Thank you for all the lovely comments.

Sue xx
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Pipany28 October 2009 at 13:15
Sorry to hear this Sue. it's the downside of keeping them isn't it? x
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BadPenny30 October 2009 at 18:19
oh sorry it must be horrible... just tucked my girls in bed xx
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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