He could have killed her!!!!!

ok to start with we are raising 5 kids so someone is in trouble at least once on a reglar basis. our oldest is acually my husbands brother. he is 17 and i love him dearly but i am constantly amazed at how little he thinks about things and how simple he can be. that being said here is an example....

We have four 6 week old chicks that we are carefully itroducing to the flock. Right now they are in a metal dog crate wrapped in chicken wire and sitting next to the ladies pen. We have been doing this for a little over a week. Next week the cage will be in the pen for another two weeks then we will let them all out to free range in an area that is not territory for any of them and then finally we will sneak the girls in at night when things are calm and let them out very early so they will not peck while waiting for their release in the morning. in all this will take weeks. That being said we have told all the children not to put the little oes with the ladies becasue they wil be attacked and killed. We explained how chickens peck and why they do it and that the little ones have no where to hide in the pen and how important it is to keep them where we put them.

SO all the kids know and yet our 17 year old boy goes right out yesterday and puts my little EE in the big girls pen to " SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN" Are you kidding me???? the 6,7,8 year old would ever think of it. It would not cross our 16 year olds mind. But for some reason the 17 year old wants to see what will happen????? SO guess what happens. the chickens dive on her and start pecking her to peices. he saves her and comes in and tells us as if it is an interesting story and does not even get why we are angry. He says well i didnt know and i wanted to see what would happen.... and when we said we told you what would happen he said well i thought it would be okay. is it just me or at 17 should someone know better. What a dummy!!! By the end of the conversation he was still acting like he did not realize we were serious and so i asked if please he does not test out the garbage disposal with his hands and just take my word that it will eat his fingers. .

The chick is okay a little ruffled and a few ouchies but she will be okay. i am just so agry he could have killed her. if it was one of the little ones i could understand a little better but he is almost 18 this child will vote soon god help us all. love the boy but geesh what a dumb thing to do. of course when speaking to him about it i just explained all the consequenses of putting the chicks in and we talked about his motives. the only nasty remark i made was about the garbage disposal. but i sure needed to vent. thanks guys.

i am not even sure if he feels badly about it?

what the heck

 

i hope so. but we have 4 more kids i have to worry about now too. last week they leaed out the window upstairs and pulled a chunk of stones off the chimmny to deter bad people climbing in the window. they had seen a movie or something. kids are crazy

 

Quote:So true and i did know they are not done developing but wow it can still just knock your socks off when common sense is missing. in theory i know this but in practice i am more like this you know?
He is a pretty good kid i do not think there is bad intentions i just think he is a dumb teenager.