Cripes. I killed my own chick, I can't believe it.

[SilverPhoenix]

How sad!

Try not to blame yourself too badly, though... Mistakes happen, and as sad as they are, they're hard to avoid. We all make them... Sorry for your loss.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'm so sorry.

 

[Bullwinkle]

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Hi Catherine:

Last year I was reading BYC everyday and learning new things. Sometime in February I read someone else who did exactly the same thing with their waterer.
To be honest... I thought "I'd never do that." The next day I went to put the waterer (one of those red bottomed 1 gallon models) into their box. Because of that post I actually found myself being a little more careful. At the last second as it was touching the wood chips and I was ready to let go I heard a little distress chirp.
I truly believe if I had not read that post last February, I would definitely have set the waterer on the poor chick.

Thank you for sharing. I hope others will read your post and maybe be just a little more careful. Who knows, your post might result in other chicks being saved from the same fate.

On a side note, now I stick my hand under the waterer before I finish setting it down just to make sure....

On a different note...

This year I almost lost another... when the chicks were 2 days old I was (I thought very carefully) rolling up the paper towels (so as not to lose any droppings) and put them in the trash. Then I moved all of the chicks to a box and put them beside me. Suddenly I heard a little chirp coming from my trash can. It turns out one of the really small chicks must have got rolled up in the paper towel! Luckily I didn't squeeze the paper towel before putting it in the trash...

 

[IggiMom]

Thanks so much for the kind words, all. You are really, really nice. (And I AM glad that I am not the only one who has done this.)

Wait--that didn't sound right--please believe I didn't mean it unkindly.

Catherine

 

[smith2]

I threw one away in the garbage with the paper when I was changing it and didn't find it until the next day when I took a count and realized one was missing. Luckily, I heard it chirping in the garbage and dug it out. It was okay, but traumatized.

 

[lolalucy]

Aw huggzz to you. We all make mistakes so don't beat yourself up.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I did this also. My first hatchery chicks. I had 45 chicks. I kept counting, and coming up short. The next day, when I almost did it again, I realized what had happened. I checked the trash, and did indeed find a dead chick rolled up in the paper towels.

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

Iam so sorry to read this about all of your chickens but because of this I will now make a Hardware cloth round fence to slide over the water.So I can slide it over the waterer when I go to fill it up this way it can sit int he brooder while I fill it up.
This way none of them will be in the area when I sit the waterer down and then I will remove it that way they can get to the waterer.


Thank you all for sharing, I can only hope that My idea will work

and I have no deaths caused from it.

 

[Lil_Chickadee]

I'm so sorry, I understand because I accidently killed a kitten one time. It was terrible. I was doing sit ups and it was chasing my hair and I didn't know it.

 

[Keenonf]

Same thing happened to me. I'm really sorry. Just know that a lot of people have gone through the same thing and we understand