Horrible gift chickens!!!!!

[ArizonaNessa]

Just the other day I had someone show up with birds to my front door wanting me to take them in and I had to turn her away ( even though they looked very healthy). She was upset because she thought since I sell birds I should take them. Like it was my job to take them in. Some people just don't understand

 

[speckledhen]

Most folks won't just show up on your doorstep with a dog or cat, expecting you to take them and then are insulted when you don't. You just do not get anyone an animal to care for as a surprise.

 

[mypicklebird]

She meant well, and at least the poor things are no longer suffering. If she hadn't taken them, they would have probably still be sitting in a cage somewhere feeling miserable. Smart move not touching them without gloves and extra clothes.

 

[columbiacritter]

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My DH knows better than to bring anything home without asking! He ahs asked, several times, and been told no most of the time. Thank god he called before he agreed to the donkeys.

When I lived in town and people know I worked with a racing greyhound rescue group they just assumed that meant I would take any dog. Many times I came home to dogs tied to my front porch or shoved into my backyard.

 

[LizzyJo]

This co-worker, I bet she is always doing little things for people, right? Bringing food to work, passing around the cards for birthdays and new babies, collecting money for gifts and like that. I don't know how you are going to make her understand that this is different, it is in her personality to do favors for people, But eeewww!

 

[columbiacritter]

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Actually she doesn't ever do anything like that. She rarely participates in anything and makes it clear her church activities take all her time and money. The one time she participated in a Secret Santa gift exchange at Christmas she gave religous material that was totally inapropriate.

Her past behavior just made the whole chicken thing weirder.

 

[highcountrychickens]

What a bummer that you feel like the bad guy for doing the right thing! It would have been tough to see them like that, and kudos for you for saying no. I hope your co-worker finds a way to understand why.

I have to confess that I did the chicken dump thing once... sort of - I was at a feed and pet store and a guy was there with his snake asking if they had any feeder mice... the gal who worked there said no, but she had some 3 day old chicks... As they talked price and whatnot, I went to another associate and bought all they had. Driving home with 15 chicks peeping from my back seat, all I could think of was how DH was going to blow his stack when I got home with them. While coming up with explanations, I passed a farmhouse where the owner was sitting on her porch shelling peas, with a few chickens milling around her yard. So I flipped a u-turn, pulled in and asked her if she wanted 15 chicks. She searched around for my second head, shrugged and asked where they came from - I told her, and she took them. I drove by there for years looking to see if she still had any RIR hens kicking around, happily saved from a Python. I would have never asked someone to take ill birds though, and would have understood if she had said "no thank you, get the h-e-doublehockeystick off my porch before I have you committed". I'm sure she gets mileage from the story too.

btw - I got home and told the story to DH, who was a bit bummed I didn't come home with them.

 

[4everfarmgirl]

The same thing happens to me all the time! Just because we have a farm and animals, people think we will take them!! In our area right now, they must be teaching kids in school about incubating because ,my freind for one, and quite a few more people, who live in the city, are incubating eggs to watch them hatch! Yes it's a great educational thing for children but what are they going to do with all these brids after they are hatched???? I have had a couple people upset because I can't take them. I don't have to room right now! Also getting unknown birds, you run the risk of infesting your whole flock. You definitely did the right thing!!!

 

[columbiacritter]

I checked with the guy who took them home yesterday. His wife got mad when she saw how bad they looked and refused to let him butcher them for their table. They have 2 lttle grandkids living with them now so she's a lot tighter about what they eat.

He said the roo died beofre he unloaded the crate and he offed the other 3 then buried them all under his compost pile. At least they aren't suffering anymore.

 

[LizzyJo]

At least "the man who will eat anything" has a wife that has some standards. You have to watch out for a man like that, next he'll be bringing home road kill.

The roo dying before "the man who will eat anything" got it unloaded tells you you were right, if there was any lingering doubt (I don't think there was in your mind, but your generous co-worker might need to know about it).

Eeeeww. And poor chickens too.