I have a question...of morals. LONG.

[justusnak]

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Funny you should say that.....for the last 2 days, DH and son have been at DH's work, tearing down a large building, for the wood. He got about 30 sheets of great plywood, and about 30 2x4's. Plans for the new coop are already in motion. The new coop will be 15 x 30...and have 5 breeder pens.

Thanks everyone...boy was I scared going over there! Glad thats over..and I feel MUCH better!

 

[PurpleChicken]

Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer.

Bring him eggs on a regular basis.

 

[hencackle]

Everything worked out for the best, hooray!

 

[tazcat70]

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OOOOOHHHHHH Good idea!!!!

Glad everything worked out so well.

Tonya

 

[beekybuzzard]

Congrats. Glad it worked out for you at least now maybe they wont be so skinny Have a blessed day

 

[ole-crone]

Wow - what a temptation. I can identify with this one.

We have wonderful neighbors whose turkeys always end up on our property every year. We tell them they are here. We also have weird, unfriendly neighbors whose chickens sometimes come over. We chase them back home. But the question is...

Just because one is a good or a bad neighbor, how does that reflect on YOUR moral decision.

Of course, you aren't going to steal from your good neighbor - intentially or not, in plain view or secretly. Afterall, you like them. BUT just because someone is a 'bad' or unfriendly neighbor doesn't justify the act.

If you know something belongs to someone else and you decide it is now yours is that wrong? No matter which way you look at it - it is.

You entitled the thread "I have a question of morals". I suspect that if you have to ask, you already know the answer. That if you keep these birds without notifying him, that fact will bother you for quite a while - no matter how many different ways you come up with justifying it.

Good luck, I'm sure you'll figure out the right thing to do.

 

[SpottedCrow]

Morally, keeping them would have been stealing...

Letting them run loose to become road pizza would be morally abhorrent to me...

You did the right thing Deb.

I was gonna mention about quarantine, but I guess it's too late...
Enjoy all your new birdies.

 

[jab91864]

I think he made it pretty clear in the conversation you had in town he wasn't feeding them. They weren't in his eyes earning their keep so to speak.

You taking them in did him a favor as it's less to show up on his doorstep thinking they will be fed. But you did the birds the biggest favor of all.

Julie

 

[beckt]

Glad things worked out for you and the birds. So if you are not adverse to keeping more, just sent over some eggs every time you have to keep his stray birds. That way you are infact paying him for them, just not in cash. Kinda like the barter system. This way you don't have to feel guilty.

 

[mom'sfolly]

I think the guy abandoned those animals, he as much as admitted it when he said he didn't feed them. I'm glad you got permission, but I think taking in those turkeys and guineas was the moral equivilent of picking an abandoned cat or dog from the side of the road.