Do you cry or sigh? (No sad stories please!)

[cbeth95]

When you loose a chicken to a predator, sickness, or old age, do you get sad and upset, or do you you sigh and kind of brush it off?
Or maybe a different emotion? Just taking a poll!

I get sad, upset, and cry, I love all my chickens!!

Thanks!

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

I get sad, then upset and maybe cry, at which point I sigh and brush it off!!

I love my chickies, some more than others. But sometimes I do go through all of the emotions.

 

[teach1rusl]

Knock on wood, but I haven't lost one yet. But with only five, it would hit me hard if it ever happened, because they are my pets. I haven't really bonded with my least friendly girl, so I'd probably just feel blue for a few days. But the waterworks would start big time for any of the other four.

 

[Southernbelle]

Usually just sadness and a lot of guilt, but I don't usually cry over them.

 

[CoopCrazy]

Sigh.. I hate that they are gone but I know that they had a great life while I had them.. Now when Lil Bit my partridge cochin bantam dies I will cry... Shes such a sweetie,..

 

[Zahboo]

It depends on my connection to them. We had 2 chicks get killed by something and I didn't shed a tear. The first one was an evil sucker and I think I jynxed him. The other was a sweet Serama but I was getting ready for school and just noticed him. I did bury him but I didn't have time to stop and take it in. For Hector my first turken chick, I sobbed. For Fleck, my best cochin girl that I lost last month because I had to cull her. It was incredibly hard I just couldn't stop crying for days.

 

[Cindiloohoo]

I sigh and get frustrated and automatically try to think of what I could have done better to prevent it. Then i fix the issue if it is fixable. sometimes it's just not, and I have to just let it go. I never cry. They have a good life here no matter how long or short. I raise ALL mine from an egg. I know they have been treated well so I don't cry.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I used to cry after every one, but now since I've had chickens for so many years, I mostly just sigh. There are certain ones that I would be more sad about than others, but I typically don't cry about them anymore.

 

[77horses]

Ms.FuzzyButts :

I get sad, then upset and maybe cry, at which point I sigh and brush it off!!

I love my chickies, some more than others. But sometimes I do go through all of the emotions.

I'm the same way. Although I won't just brush it off...I eventually get over it but it's still kinda sad when I think about it.

I've had chickens since 2007 and have only lost 5 total...3 to a weasel and 2 to some unknown cause.

Not as bad as some people have had it...Some lose way more than that and I'm glad I haven't lost that many yet.


Certain ones that I've bonded with the most I would be really sad for a while, others not so much. But I have a big soft spot for most animals, whether I know them or not, and it makes me sad when any animal dies. (Well except for that weasel that killed our 3 chickens...I'm glad he's gone.

) For example a couple days ago we found two dead baby birds (that were just beginning to grow feathers) dead on a rock because they must have fallen out of their nest from the rain storm that hit us last week or a squirrel invaded the nest. Seeing those poor baby birds made me really sad, even though I had no attachment to them whatsoever.

 

[Penturner]

I guess I just sigh. I know it is all part of the entire experience. there is actually a very long list of emotions involved in keeping pets of any kind, excitement, anxiety, joy, frustration, impatience, anger, happiness. and even remorse.It is all part of the overall experience that I enjoy living in so much.