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Penny Pigeon, Sweetie Dove

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 Penny Pigeon, Sweetie Dove This Little Birdie Gotta Blog by Jacquelyn J. Meyers Once upon a time (like, two weeks ago), a friend of mine (named Julie S.) texted me to tell me that her dog had attacked a pigeon in her yard, and she had been trying to nurse it back to health, but was going out of town, and asked if I might take the bird in while she was gone. I have a couple of older chickens, and I have a few younger chickens, and so am aware of some of the threat that wild birds can pose to domestic birds, and have had my share of grief from that (mites in particular).  But I thought on this, and my heart said yes to it, despite the possible threats (and plenty else to do, since I’d already been nursing my own injured, very painful heel, making it quite challenging to simply even walk most of the time). Julie brought the bird over the next day before she left for her trip.  Expectedly, she didn’t have a cage for it, so she brought it in a sturdy box.  She had two cute little plastic
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 Ode to Rhoda My Little Red Hen by Jacquelyn Jardine Meyers Three years ago, around March 17th, 2019, we brought home our little Rhoda Roo.  She was a pretty little chick, our first Rhode Island Red.  Just a few days freshly hatched from the egg, we also brought home with her, a Delaware breed, who would become our Goosie Dellaroo.  They were two chickie peas in a pod, and they grew and grew.  Scratching and clucking, they did everything together.   Rhoda would lay her first little egg around August of that same year. In the summer of 2020, Brig and I took a trip to Yellowstone National Park for Brig’s first visit, and I’d not been there since I was a teenager.  Under the loving watch of another, and we cast no fault, Rhoda’s sister Goosie passed away from an unknown cause while we were gone on that trip.  Rhoda was sad, but brave with Goosie now gone, and soon she would be dealing with a battle against mites, but she would be a gallant little hen, peaceful and resolute, n
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