Anyone else feel guilty selling chickens?

[shelleyd2008]

It seems most of the ones I get attached to are roos

I also feel very guilty selling them, but I just can't keep them all. I will ask the prospective buyer what purpose they have for the bird(s), since there are a lot of illegal cock-fighters in my area, I have to be careful

I will sell them if they are just going to be eaten, though I don't like to. But if it's someone I know uses them for fighting, or if they are dumb enough to tell me that's what they want them for, then I pass

Sometimes you just have to suck it up, and let them go

 

[fowltemptress]

I feel guilty, and I've decided never to do it again. After rescuing reptiles I just don't trust anybody. I don't care if they kill the bird, but it's how they're treated and cared for before being killed that bothers me. I kill all my extras myself, now, because I honestly feel better just doing the deed rather than dealing with the "what if the person who bought it was an animal torturing whacko?" thoughts that I always have.

 

[Crazy4cochins]

I agree with you nellabean, I would rather do it myself.
I have a terrible mistrust with people.
And I just can't help worring about what would happen if I sold them.
Plus I took care of these chickens I would rather eat them than get 5 buck for them.
I went to great lengths to keep my girls ..
I had told a friend of mine that I had too many girls and needed to thin them out I told her to have this lady call me so we could arrange a time for her to come out and see them. Because this woman wanted some hens.
Well..... when she called I realized she was like really old. ( I know it sound rude I am not trying to be but ........
Well I agreed to sell them and I was soo upset and worried about them that she was a little too old to care for them. I mean like what if she fell and broke a hip ,
Who would care for them then???
what would happen to my gilrs.sooo I called her at the last minute and told her that I couldn't sell them to her becasue I thought they had mites. She tried to tell me ohh thats ok, but I didn't want her to have them.
Soo I feel better knowing that I am not the only over protective Momma hen around.
I still feel bad about it but I also didn't want them to be alone after having soo many sisters

 

[Sunny Side Up]

A lot of older folks have forgotten more than you & I will ever know about caring for chickens. I hope this lady has found herself some other nice chickens to keep and wish she would log onto this forum to share some of her wisdom with us!

 

[MakNat]

Guilty... I will sell to people who ask all the right questions!! Like, what color eggs. You got 1 rooster if I buy 3 or 4 hens... You know, the people who want to take care of chickens and start their own flock.
I gave one of my neighbors 8 chickens. I had way too many and no one was buying. I heard Through the Grape Vine, that his dogs killed everyone of them within two days!
I DARE him to come ask for a handout again.....
I'm allmost to the point NOT sell and and just raise enough for us! They are happy, I LOVE my birdies!! Its quick and painless, they never saw it coming!

 

[jjthink]

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Wow, do you actually think this is not cruel? I think the chicken would have a much different opinion. If a person has to act thoughtlessly toward an animal in order to eat it, they should become a vegetarian.

It is my responsibility to carefully examine the future home and handling of any being that leaves my care so that I can be assured the treatment will truly be kind. This is why I almost never adopt anybody out! It is hard to meet my standards. I just can't adopt the philosophy that some have made peace with, and that is to not look back. It's the lazy way out and one of the reasons the world struggles so hard on the whole to get any more humane.
Even those sold for food deserve a kind and caring hand until that final moment. They shouldn't have to be afraid. I bet the farm and then some that a chicken stuffed in a box with its legs tied together is terrified. WRONG WRONG WRONG!

Sorry everybody - I usually vent more gently on this site but I am channeling chickens at the moment!
JJ

 

[Elite Silkies]

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I'd like to know half of what she does

 

[Bizzybirdy]

sooo I called her at the last minute and told her that I couldn't sell them to her becasue I thought they had mites.

Had to crack up over that. Once this couple showed up to purchase 8 grown roosters with a small 12" high carrier and I thought of those poor souls stuffed in that thing where they would not even be able to hold their heads up and told them the birds had gotten suddenly ill, didn't think of the "mite" excuse.

Now I know lots of people I sell/give roosters to are going to have them for dinner but the thing is they had better show up here with large, CLEAN carriers and show some compassion or they are shown the road..still I do try to find nice homes for the nice roosters. Right now I am overrun with them.

 

[ND Sue]

In the chicken carrier instance, why not just tell them the truth instead of trying to come up with some white lie excuse? I would just nicely say that the carrier is to small to comfortably transport them and they would need to come back with something bigger.
If you don't help people learn, they'll never know any better to change and probably some other birds most likely got stuffed in there!

 

[catfish/okie]

I got 8 really just got room for 4 or 5 dont want to get rid of any. If I decided to get rid of some I cant decide which ones. Gave 6 away this past summer dogs killed 3 and a coyote caught another. Wished I would have just eat em myself.