FREE TO GOOD HOME: 3 year old boy...

[shelleyd2008]

I did tell him, but I don't think he understands what dying is much at all. Maybe he would understand 'go bye-bye' better, but the little things seem to be doing all right now, so hopefully I won't have to explain that the chick went 'bye-bye' because of him at another time!

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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Totally true. When I went with DH to Florida last year, he went to business meetings, and I went to Disney World *by myself*. Watching all the tired, sweating parents dragging packs of screaming, whining, crying, begging kids around the park, yelling and at their wits' end, made me so glad the number of kids I have right now is 0.

That said, I have the utmost respect for parents who have children and choose to parent. There is a huge difference between reproducing and parenting. You can see for yourself in any grocery store or mall who is who.

When my students ask me why I don't have kids, I say, "I have all of you." I have 100+ students, and that's enough.

 

[thewobsers]

Your initial post made me chuckle.
Kids have a way of bringing out the very best and the worst in us sometimes, they are the perfect mirrors--- i see myself so very clearly thru them and have learned to humble myself and make some changes in myself for the better of all mankind...
Most parents can relate to your experience, and its nice to be able to vent sometimes eh?
This is yet another page in his interesting life story and how his mamma loved him so much that he lived to laugh about it.
This is what i say when people tell me how cute my kids are;

"that is why they are still alive."

 

[shelleyd2008]

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My thoughts eggsactly!! I have always said that God made kids cute, so we wouldn't kill them. It's hard to try to ring their neck, when they look at you with that adorable little face. I have often wondered how any make it to adulthood though

 

[shelleyd2008]

Ok, the poor baby that got squished, or whatever happened, wasn't peeping at all. Now the poor thing won't stop!! It is eating when I go and 'peck' the food, and I make it drink every so often. But it is just constantly peeping. I hope this is not a bad sign!

 

[bheila]

If only it were legal to put shock collars on children. Just joking...well at least right now anyway.

 

[MagsC]

LOL, my "babies" are 23,22,20,19 and 16.

I cant relate to the frustration. My oldest son and my oldest daughter once got Siamese fighting fish. My son reached in and grabbed the fish, killed it. I asked him WHY and he said he was "trying to feed it!!".

 

[SandraMort]

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Yeah, there are no guarantees. Four normal homebirths (including my 11 lb baby) doesn't mean that next time might not end up a transfer! I have a friend whose 7th baby was a cesarean, totally unexpected.

Just about the same ages as mine! My oldest will be 10 in April. She loves chickens too, is reading all the books she can on them, and has her own small flock consisting of 5 Buff Brahma Bantams, 3 RIR, and 3 Creoles. Plus one Sizzle she named Chirpy.

Ohhh, does she come here? My oldest is JasmineBell (Belle?) and loves to read about them, too. She's got one brahma and is getting 6 silkies and 2 leghorns next month. I forgot most of their names already but the Brahma she already has is National Velvet.

My 7 year old shares ownership of a pair of Quail Antwerps with me and says he would like to get some other chickens of his own as well.

Technically they're all shared, since I'm paying for them, doing the work and so forth. They put in a token amount of work and will collect eggs, the amount of work increasing as time goes on.

Three year old doesn't like the chickens (the bigger ones) too much and is scared of my geese. But he likes the 3 week old chicks.

Yup, like the picture.​

 

[mark3208]

You really cant blame the youngin, little ,baby chicks are fun to squeeze,when you are three.

 

[MagsC]

Yeah, I remember my mom talking about her little brother when he was about that age. He had squeezed a chick to death and then wanted her to "fix" it...