Soon There Will Be Three

I have terrible, terrible news.  Yesterday afternoon Daphne was hanging out with our dog, Lady, who was so ecstatic to have her come by and say, "Hi".  Suddenly from around the corner, one of our rooster's Benji appeared and surprised Daphne.  Daphne jumped up, right into Lady's mouth.  She ended up suffering from a fatal concussion and died before we could get in the car to take her to the vet.  We are just devastated.  It was a freak accident, and what happened, just shouldn't have had those results.  It was something that could happen a thousand times and not have the same result, by the same token, she could have been hanging with me, get surprised, jump in my mouth as I yelled "Benji" and the same thing could have happened.  We feel terrible, and miss Daphne an unbearable amount.


We still really, really want a Brahma, so we are going to order through a local hatchery and get a day old chick.  Well, actually, they have a minimum order of three, so we are going to get three chicks.  We are going to get a beloved Brahma, only Buff, and we are going to get a Black Giant Jersey, which has Brahma genetics.  The third one is being selected by my nephew right now, so we don't know what it will be yet.  Allowing my nephew to select one and raise it when he is here over the summer was really what drove us to make this decision.  At some point, the new Brahma (probably) will take over this blog.

I'm sure many of you are very sad, but I hope you will be here with me to welcome the new babies to Happy Bird Manor.

Kevin