California - Northern

[casportpony]

BCollie, I can't do it either. I know sometimes I should, but I just can't.

-Kathy

 

[HighStreetCoop]

I was sitting there with the bird in one hand and scissors in the other, just sitting there crying, when I heard my neighbor drive up into his driveway...I went over and asked if he's ever killed a bird before and he said "Have I what?" And I said, "Killed a bird" and I broke down crying and showed him the chick and, I don't know how well he could hear me through my crying, said "I have a dying baby chick and I just can't do it" and he took it and said he'll take care of it. His wife said, "Don't feel bad honey, I couldn't do it either"
And I just can't stop crying, it's one thing when they die on their own but I just couldn't do it.

(((hugs))) I can't do it either. Kind of dreading getting home and checking on them for this exact reason.

 

[chickee]

I'm so sorry. That sounds exactly like what's going on with mine.

Sorry you guys are loosing chicks

It is such a hard thing to go through! I have found that my hatches this time of year are poorer and chicks not as thrifty. I contribute it too the end of the laying cycle and the eggs are not in as good of shape as they are in the spring.

 

[chickee]

BCollie, I can't do it either. I know sometimes I should, but I just can't.

-Kathy

X2

 

[chickee]

Wow! That's going to be a great coop.

Wow, that's nice!

-Kathy

Thanks guys

My husband is a perfectionist.

 

[ronott1]

I was sitting there with the bird in one hand and scissors in the other, just sitting there crying, when I heard my neighbor drive up into his driveway...I went over and asked if he's ever killed a bird before and he said "Have I what?" And I said, "Killed a bird" and I broke down crying and showed him the chick and, I don't know how well he could hear me through my crying, said "I have a dying baby chick and I just can't do it" and he took it and said he'll take care of it. His wife said, "Don't feel bad honey, I couldn't do it either"
And I just can't stop crying, it's one thing when they die on their own but I just couldn't do it.

It was very nice of your neighbor to take care of it for you. It was the best thing for the chick.

I hope the others are ok!

 

[BCollie]

Thanks guys. The others seem to be just fine, they're all looking for food by kicking around the pine shavings...when I put food in they all ran over so I think all the others are okay. Don't know what happened to this one chick.

I want to go over and thank him for taking care of it for me, but I'm sure I'll just start crying again. Maybe I'll make him cookies or brownies or something, I don't know

 

[Happy Chooks]

I was sitting there with the bird in one hand and scissors in the other, just sitting there crying, when I heard my neighbor drive up into his driveway...I went over and asked if he's ever killed a bird before and he said "Have I what?" And I said, "Killed a bird" and I broke down crying and showed him the chick and, I don't know how well he could hear me through my crying, said "I have a dying baby chick and I just can't do it" and he took it and said he'll take care of it. His wife said, "Don't feel bad honey, I couldn't do it either"
And I just can't stop crying, it's one thing when they die on their own but I just couldn't do it.

That was very nice of him to do that for you.

I've done it, and it's not pleasant. But trust me, it's much harder on you than the chick. They go very peacefully. I have delayed some that should have been put down as chicks, and ended up having to do it at 8 or 9 weeks - it is MUCH harder to do then.

 

[BCollie]

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I imagine it is. I read on another thread on BYC that you can use ether (starter fluid) and put them in a jar with some on a paper towel and they just go to sleep and never wake up. I am probably going to go out and buy some in case this ever happens again. Is that a safe and humane way to put a chick to sleep?

 

[ronott1]

I imagine it is. I read on another thread on BYC that you can use ether (starter fluid) and put them in a jar with some on a paper towel and they just go to sleep and never wake up. I am probably going to go out and buy some in case this ever happens again. Is that a safe and humane way to put a chick to sleep?

It takes them longer to die that way. The snipping is fairly instant--especially if you use Chiqitas method.