Baby chick stepped on

[SammyTheChick]

Today I was walking around with my chick he went in front of my and I stepped on him.His heart is sticking out (not fully) and he is still breathing.I am really upset I need to know what to do!! PLZ SOMEONE ANSWER ASAP!!!!!

 

[azygous]

He needs to be euthanized immediately. If you aren't able to put him out of his misery, get someone you trust to scissors off his head. Immediate and painless death.

Or take some carburator starting fluid and wet a cloth and hold it around his head. He will got to sleep and not be aware of anything. A minute to be certain he's gone.

I know how you feel. I am still feeling the guilt from a baby chick I accidentally killed eight weeks ago.

 

[RM44]

So sorry. Don't be too hard on yourself. Try to remember that you are trying to be a good caregiver and understand that accidents happen. Good luck.

 

[AthenasOwl]

Oh, my! I feel your pain! I stepped on my 6 year old daughters 15 day old black sex link on the evening of the 4th of July, and I killed it immediately. My 14 year old son is still angry and said very hurtful and ugly things to me when I did it. He loves his chickens (he calls them his clown horns). I am still having nightmares about stepping on her head. I don't do dying things, but I picked her dying body up and cuddled her while she died (this is HUGE for me..I know that some people would shrug at it, but it amounts to climbing a tall tower to someone afraid of heights). I am still tearing up over what I did.

Thank you for sharing your story, because it helps me know, that I am not the only one that this has happened to. I wish I could go back and change it and I feel so awful, because she named her "Drakulaura" from her favorite "Monster High" character. She had the center 2 toes that were white and she was the sweetest of the 4. I want to get sick whenever I think about it happening.

(((((((((((Giant hugs to you, dear!))))))))))

Colette (I am known by my cousin as "Clutz")

 

[azygous]

You both need to know that if you can endure this pain and guilt for the time it takes to heal, it does quit hurting so much, and the horror diminishes with time, too. The two weeks after my incident happened I was filled with nausea when I recalled it. I had placed a plastic tote lid on the ground under a water bottle and the week-old chick slipped under it. I didn't see the chick and it got squashed.

It wasn't your fault. As is often pointed out, baby chicks seem to have a suicidal impulse and get themselves killed very, very easily by being in the wrong places.

Talk about it to whomever will lend a sympathetic ear. It really makes it hurt less afterward.