Chickens buried alive...

Hi everyone, I'm along time lurker here but this is my first real post I guess although I signed up over a year ago so, er, yeah. I'f I'm doing anything wrong just let me know. :oops:

The dream I had last night (Friday to Saturday) was quite bizarre...

I was in my garden and it was fairly dark, I was aware that my parents were there but their part wasn't really huge. I was also aware that a farmer had just given up on his egg laying hens and had buried them, alive, in my garden. I looked down at the (seemingly undisturbed looking) grass and saw a chicken's severed leg, it was bloody and twitching. I panicked, threw myself on the ground and began digging frantically with my hands trying to find the birds before they were crushed or suffocated to death. I found the one who had lost her leg first and she was in pain and screaming (in a chicken way) I was very worried what to do as I couldn't put her out of her pain and all I could do was comfort her, I was distraught.

By this point I think my Dad had gotten bored and gone into the house but Mum was still hanging around but not being helpful, just saying stuff like "oh no" that's bad!" etc.
So I had to carry on digging up my garden with my hands screaming for help and trying to save these poor birds, i didn't know how many there were and couldn't let myself stop until I had found them all. But I never had the chance because suddenly I was at he top of my stairs and the farmer was telling me he had hidden more under my stair/landing floorboards. then he laughed and went away.

I was no longer at home but suddenly in a market place with many people. My parents were with me again and I went wandering around the stalls (I think I was somewhere in the East, not that that narrows it down) and the stalls were selling pottery, spices etc. I ran into a male friend of mine and he began talking to my Dad (whom he has never met in real life) and he asked my dad if he could marry me (as far as I am aware I do not have any feelings for him and this dream was no exception) but he and my dad began organising the wedding and I just agreed so i didn't seem impolite.

I must have decided I'd then had enough because I was suddenly in some palace organising a show with dancers etc. had to tidy the place up and find costumes etc. i think the king (or something) was asking me to organise all this for him.

But then I was in my garden again and remembered the chickens. I ran to my pond and looked at the tadpoles, their water was quite dirty (water often is in my dreams...why?) but then I realised they weren't the chickens and I ran to the shed and became annoyed when I saw both males and females together (even though in real life they would all be female as they were egg layers; the males would have been culled as chicks as they would be considered 'useless' to the egg industry and crushed alive and sold as fertiliser) but then one of my dogs barked (in real life) and I was woken up.

Just thought I'd share, by my standards this isn't unusual as far as wierdness goes...if anything it's pretty tame. But this one has me rather confused, I can't seem to interperet much of it, I just wanted to know what you guys thought of it. Sorry if I've taken up your time, *trembles*

Some background info: (it might help if you're trying to interperet this dream yourself)
*I'm not really that close to my parents in real life
*alot of my dreams take place in sunny foreign places such as the market place and palace
*I think I've been to both of the above mentioned palces before, perhaps in other half forgotten dreams.
* I am 16 years old
*Often when I dream of animals they are in pain or dying and I am trying to save them
*Often when I have to look after animals in my dreams I can never find a safe place to keep them, or they are unsuitably housed (eg. males kept with females, cats with mice etc etc.)


So um...yeah thanks very much for your time and if I've done anything wrong then just say or delete this post or whatever, thanks :)