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[pipAchick]

"Life is time to waste invetween meals." Robert W. DeSena

Terrific point.

 

[Pensmaster]

Well, I got all seven processed in about 2-2.5 hours or so (skinning). Cried with each one - but was grateful that I've done this enough now to make each a very clean death. The worst part was finding this inside one of them - she would have laid her first egg today. The other CL (eight pullet) did survive the night and went back to the coop to look for the rest, so I caught her and closed the book on this whole thing. I got my weekly weights on the others, now I'm back inside having more coffee, and crying again. I've culled before, a number of times. And I am at peace with the reasons I had for culling these pullets. I just wish I didn't feel like such a monster. - Ant Farm

 

[Akrnaf2]

"Life is time to waste invetween meals." Robert W. DeSena

Terrific point.

Life is also that little line in between your birth and death years, engraved on your tombstone!

 

[pipAchick]

Supposedly, the lower animals don't have the ability to reason, to contemplate something they've never experienced; they simply cease to exist. Makes it a bit easier when we take their existence from them.

Sorry@fireant.
Your a respectable soul for admitting the truth at its base core level. I worked with elderly at a nursing home. People grew tired of me crying each time they passed. I spent hours with these people are you kidding me? I think your border line if your inner spirit&emotions don't grieve in some sense when we end a life.
I tell my hens thank you every time I get eggs from hens. I thank the roosters for protecting them. Call me nuts but I don't care my chickens are happy with me&appricated.
We have a squirrel we are debating at current. I don't want to end it's life but it keeps destroying my flowers beds, my crop of sunflowers and feed bins. I'm going to have to decide my chickens health&flowers well being or no squirrel. Happens every year, another squirrel always returns.

 

[BullChick]

Paper over the top,seat always up; what's to figure out?

Well, I got all seven processed in about 2-2.5 hours or so (skinning). Cried with each one - but was grateful that I've done this enough now to make each a very clean death. The worst part was finding this inside one of them - she would have laid her first egg today. The other CL (eight pullet) did survive the night and went back to the coop to look for the rest, so I caught her and closed the book on this whole thing. I got my weekly weights on the others, now I'm back inside having more coffee, and crying again. I've culled before, a number of times. And I am at peace with the reasons I had for culling these pullets. I just wish I didn't feel like such a monster. - Ant Farm

Awe!

 

[BullChick]

Terrific point.

LOL! I will let him know that you said that!

 

[Pensmaster]

Sorry@fireant.
Your a respectable soul for admitting the truth at its base core level. I worked with elderly at a nursing home. People grew tired of me crying each time they passed. I spent hours with these people are you kidding me? I think your border line if your inner spirit&emotions don't grieve in some sense when we end a life.
I tell my hens thank you every time I get eggs from hens. I thank the roosters for protecting them. Call me nuts but I don't care my chickens are happy with me&appricated.
We have a squirrel we are debating at current. I don't want to end it's life but it keeps destroying my flowers beds, my crop of sunflowers and feed bins. I'm going to have to decide my chickens health&flowers well being or no squirrel. Happens every year, another squirrel always returns.

We have same problem with squirrels here. I try to leave them for the hawks however there's a pine tree over our yard and it likes to eat and drop large pine cones on us. New squirrel every year.

 

[BusyBearMama]

Patience. Babies are late all the time.

Hi, sorry no pips yet but be patient, you never know what pops out days later, I had a few hatch day 24 this year and I was just glad I left them in there. I found one yesterday hatches can take a few days but there's no saying that you can't get all late hatchers!

 

[runt325]

Hi I got good news my chicks are getting better

 

[pipAchick]

We have same problem with squirrels here. I try to leave them for the hawks however there's a pine tree over our yard and it likes to eat and drop large pine cones on us. New squirrel every year.

Still gonna bawl when hubby drags poor thing to the tanning station.