Found a baby mouse! Help! Now with PICS!!!

[SarahBeth9394]

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Chickens not only provide meat but they provide eggs. Keeping the chickens safe produces food for our tables so it's definitely not a pest. And the roos... Well we woudn't get any more hens with out them and they are very protective of the hens. What is a mouse's contribution to the lifecycle. Well they are a nuisance if they get in your house they destroy things and spred germs, in many areas they carry Hanta Virus or other germs and diseases, they are eaten by many animals. I see no difference between putting the baby mouse out of it's misery and culling a deformed chick.

 

[oesdog]

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Chickens not only provide meat but they provide eggs. Keeping the chickens safe produces food for our tables so it's definitely not a pest. And the roos... Well we woudn't get any more hens with out them and they are very protective of the hens. What is a mouse's contribution to the lifecycle. Well they are a nuisance if they get in your house they destroy things and spred germs, in many areas they carry Hanta Virus or other germs and diseases, they are eaten by many animals. I see no difference between putting the baby mouse out of it's misery and culling a deformed chick.

But thats where we would differ. - I never put a chick down unless it is suffering I certainly don;t put them down because they have a disability ! ( But then I only have back yard chickens , I don;t show my chickens and I don;t use them for meat or business -

) Thats why I am a member of BYC Back yard chickens!

The poster only wants support to care for this baby mouse not anything else. They want support not jugement. The mouse will be fine if its tamed and kept as a pet it wont grow up to be a pest! I have had mice here that have been pests and that was sad and drastic action was required! This baby is different it is obviously much loved and wanted and cared about and that is what is important to the poster!!!!!!! Not if some folk think they are pests. Some think Chickens are pests my neighbor for an example does and that is what I was getting at! - Lets just be a positive support! - and put personal differances and interpritations to one side! -

If its not possible to be possitive perhaps there are other threads with folk on who are not so crazy about keeping mice you could visit????

Oesdog -

 

[chicmom]

R O D E N T = GERMS, DISEASE, MORE RODENTS!

I would dispose of it.........

 

[oesdog]

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The poster asked for positive responses and help - Mice may be all of those things if unchecked but they also make wonderful pets and they can help children learn so much about care and responsibility too! Not all of them carry diseases either!

Oesdog -

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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Ouch....glad to know I'm not welcome here because I show, sell eggs and eat my birds. It depends on the disability...if it's too severe, then I end it's life. I can always sell culls.

 

[oesdog]

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Ouch....glad to know I'm not welcome here because I show, sell eggs and eat my birds. It depends on the disability...if it's too severe, then I end it's life. I can always sell culls.

No one said you were not welcome here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - that is certainly unfare - All I said was that I have a small back yard flock and that is why I personally joined BYC.
(It is also why I can be more open to keeping chickens with issues/disabilities, that others who are into meat birds and bigger busines ventures maybe can;t) Also the original OP wanted support which you don;t appear to want to offer and so maybe another thread would offer you more oportunity to voice your opinions without upsetting the OP. It is a shame that you are so defensive and feel agrieved when nothing negative was aimed at you at all. My appologies that you are upset by what I wrote about my own reasons for joining this forum? But I apologise to you anyway because I don;t want you to be upset for no reason.

Oesdog -

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Original Poster was asking how to help a baby creature survive. No harm there.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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Take a look at the first page. That is where I posted my helpful information. It's her decision how she handles it. She asked for help, I gave links and information regarding how to care for it, like several others gave.

It may have been that we cannot read tone of voice online, but still looked bad. Looked as though you were putting all of us down who choose to cull, and raise for eggs and meat instead of pets, but I'm certain I had to have misread the initial reply to the thread as well as the tone that it was supposed to be read in.

 

[oesdog]

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Take a look at the first page. That is where I posted my helpful information. It's her decision how she handles it. She asked for help, I gave links and information regarding how to care for it, like several others gave.

It may have been that we cannot read tone of voice online, but still looked bad. Looked as though you were putting all of us down who choose to cull, and raise for eggs and meat instead of pets, but I'm certain I had to have misread the initial reply to the thread as well as the tone that it was supposed to be read in.

Yeah it is hard to read tone and meaning on line and you did read me incorrectly! I certainly have no issue with folk breeding for showing or meat at all and am well aware you cannot keep chicks that have issues in those circumstances, where as some one like me with only a few Back yard girls can do that. That is what I was getting at !!!
I don;t personally agree with killing any animal that is not in pain or is not a pest or is not suffering but that is my own personal situation and one I can accomadate. If I was showing or meat rearing I may have different thoughts! I had no issue whipping out the mass of mice in my coop two month ago and they were healthy critters! Tooooo healthy. They were PESTS! Thats why I said to the OP not to let the little fellow go and breed!!!!!!

I have also read you incorrectly in that I am giulty of mixing you up with another poster so apologise for that and recognise you were posting helpfully the other poster I mixed you up with was not. Sometimes it is hard to follow conversation on line as well as tone and meaning over pages of posts!

Oesdog -

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[Bessie1994Snider]

I was wondering how the little mouse was doing.