U_Stormcrow
Crossing the Road
With respect, I reject your premise.
"When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out, that doesn't make it better, it makes it worse." Robert A. Heinlein
The same applies to chickens, whether hen or rooster. Either because prolonging a life of pain is no courtesy, or because some beast has demonstrated its inability to comport itself in civilized society. When one of the flock can't stop causing serious harm to another, delay only puts an innocent life in danger to the benefit of the aggressor.
The last kindness you can do is to ensure its ending is swift and somber, without joy or sorrow.
...as my only adult rooster discovered about 4 weeks back, setting my breeding project back months. He got a pass when he attacked me (once) while defending the flock (I was snatching the girls up to weigh them). When he attacked my wife as she came out to feed them? He made the decision for me.
"When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out, that doesn't make it better, it makes it worse." Robert A. Heinlein
The same applies to chickens, whether hen or rooster. Either because prolonging a life of pain is no courtesy, or because some beast has demonstrated its inability to comport itself in civilized society. When one of the flock can't stop causing serious harm to another, delay only puts an innocent life in danger to the benefit of the aggressor.
The last kindness you can do is to ensure its ending is swift and somber, without joy or sorrow.
...as my only adult rooster discovered about 4 weeks back, setting my breeding project back months. He got a pass when he attacked me (once) while defending the flock (I was snatching the girls up to weigh them). When he attacked my wife as she came out to feed them? He made the decision for me.
