Marie's near death experience!

This morning was very scary! I usually hook the goats up with leashes by their boxes(where they get grain) so they won't steal each others food. After feeding and hooking them up, I went to take care of the chickens and other barn chores. When I went back in Marie had stood up against the wall then jumped back down and got the leash tangled on her chest. It was choking her! I dropped the stuff I was carrying and ran over. Unfortunately, you need slack to unhook the leash. She had spun around so it was pulling really tight. I tried to unclasp her collar but it wouldn't work. She started to fall to her knees and couldn't stand anymore. I grabbed and picked her up(she's really heavy by the way) as fast as I could and spun her around to loosen the leash. Then I finally got it unhooked. (The whole time Lucy stood by just watching.) Marie and I were both really scared and our hearts were pounding. As I was giving them hay and water in their pen she would not stop following me and got really upset when I would leave. She just wanted to snuggle so I spent some time sitting with her. The poor thing.

Our attempts at catching the weasel aren't working. We set a live animal trap, but just ended up catching 3 ground squirrels. Haha! The trap is still set so we'll just wait and see.

Daisy is doing amazing. She now has 6 eggs and has been moved to the vacant chick pen in a cardboard box. We're not sure if she's been getting up herself to eat, so we take her out sometimes and make her eat and drink. Her eggs are from different dates ranging from the 16th to the 19th. So they'll hatch on July 7th to the 10th. You guys get here the 9th I think so hopefully you'll get to witness it all. :) Yay!!! The chicks will be different breeds(I don't think any of the eggs are Daisy's). The rooster is an Ameraucana and we're not sure what the mothers all were since a lot of the eggs look alike. There is one Ameraucana egg so it'll be a pure Ameraucana if it hatches. There's no telling how many will actually hatch though. Some may not have been fertilized or maybe Daisy let one slip out from under her and get too cold. You never know. It's all very exciting!

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