Does this make me cold hearted and evil?

[yotetrapper]

You ever read a post that is intended to be a tear jerker, an "oh my God my poor chicken" type post, and you know you should feel sympathy, but you just can't help yourself, you chuckle? I guess maybe it's from raising so many birds, or maybe it's from being country born and raised, but, when a chicken dies, I toss it in the dumpster. Chickens die, and it's a part of country life. Sometimes, a favored chicken dies, and I feel a bit of sadness, like when my blue orp hen died, or when my aappleyard duck hen swallowed a nail, but still, they got bagged and tossed in the garbage. When a chicken is hurt, I put it down.

And sometimes, I will open a post, and see where a chicken was dog mauled, or attacked by a coon, etc. etc., and to me it's obvious it needs to be put down, and the people are all like, Oh no I just can't stop crying and my chicken is sufferring but I'm keeping it alive, and I can't cull it, never been so sad in my life, etc. etc., and sometimes I just can't help it, sometimes I laugh out loud because really, people, these are livestock, not your first born son.

So, let's hear it, am I a cold, heartless witch?

 

[sfw2]

Yes. But you're not alone.

 

[OrpingtonManor]

it's just your opinion. sorry you laugh at us. I would also cry for my second born son. I know you didn't mean it that way, but your post makes it sound like you want to come off cold and calloused, and then when we react, you can say, "see, what a bunch of bleeding hearts."

be who you need to be. I'll be who I need to be. I won't run you off the road, and I'll let you get in front of me in the grocery store line when you only have one item.

 

[CoopCrazy]

You have to realize though that most people on this forum dont see chickens as Livestock , they see them as pets..

I agree with you in that I dont get overly upset if somethings happens to one of my birds , its farm life! I have a few that have saddened me as i will miss thier hijinks...
But maybe just not posting on threads when the person is upset is the better way to go... And sometimes your choice of words come off very nasty and incompassionate.. Just try to remember that just because you see a chicken one way doesnt mean that others see it the same way.. just like some folks think that a tiger is a loveable pet, even though at any moment it can decide you look yummy and eat you., while others realize they are wild animals that shouldnt be domescitated....

 

[ranchhand]

I respectfully suggest that you stop reading and/or commenting on such topics, and that you also keep in mind that not everyone is wired the same. I find your post offensive, though I am not normally the "bleeding heart" that you so joyfully ridicule.

Perhaps some sensitivity training would help you achieve balance in your life.

 

[redux]

Some people see their animals more as family than as inventory.

 

[grammy of David]

"Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists--amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for 'harmony with nature'--there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature ......that the ecologists envision--i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears..." I LIVE ON A RANCH AND YOU MUST LEAVE DEATH AT THE BARN, OR YOU WOULD NEVER STOP CRYING.......WHEN A CRITTER DIES, YOU STILL HAVE 100S OF OTHERS DEPENDING ON YOU TO FEED, WATER, AND TAKE CARE OF THEM......there in lays the difference in city slickers and country folks......

neither is wrong....just different! BE STILL AND KNOW I AM GOD...psalms: 46:10

 

[PotterWatch]

I do view my chickens as livestock. Sometimes they need to be culled for one reason or another and that's just how it is. I don't laugh at people who view them as more than livestock though.

ETA: Though I do consider my chickens as livestock, it doesn't keep me from naming them and taking their picture every once in a while. I don't call them my pets, but I do enjoy their personalities and antics.

 

[redux]

I thnk your reaction is going to be different if you have 100 chickens from what it would be if you had, say, three. Also, if you have grown up around them and seen them all your life as dispensable, you are going to react differently from someone who has never had a chicken and has just lost their first one.

Let's try to respect each other's differences.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

I'm one of those cry baby type people and that's what I LOVE about BYC is that MOST here will feel bad with me and console me when my bird is sick or dies. I didn't even realize there were types of people here that would be laughing at such a post but I guess there is

I'm sure you don't mean your post in a bad way at all but I think it come off that way a tad bit.
I know I just always have to try to fix the problem, yet when they need to be put down we put them down. But we do try first to heal them. And we do feel bad over every chicken we have to put down...doesn't matter what one it is. Those special ones are even harder. My husband had to put his favorite down a week ago and it was harder watching him then it was losing the chicken because he held her and talked to her first and that is why I love him so much!