Lesson in culling baby chick?

[gtaus]

Today I was at my local Fleet store looking at the chicks. A man was there talking to the salesperson about his order of about 30 chicks he was picking up. One of the chicks was not doing well. He took it out of his box and threw it back into the stock tank. I went over to look at the chick and it was just lying on its side, looked like close to death. Anyway, this guy comes back and I mention to him that it looked like that chick was not going to survive. Without saying a word, he reached into the tank, picked up the chick, banged its head against the metal stock tank breaking the chick's neck, and then threw it back into the tank completely dead.

He ended that chick's life without malice, and in fact, I suppose it was a mercy kill that saved the chick from suffering a few more hours. I did not say anything.

 

[chkva]

Today I was at my local Fleet store looking at the chicks. A man was there talking to the salesperson about his order of about 30 chicks he was picking up. One of the chicks was not doing well. He took it out of his box and threw it back into the stock tank. I went over to look at the chick and it was just lying on its side, looked like close to death. Anyway, this guy comes back and I mention to him that it looked like that chick was not going to survive. Without saying a word, he reached into the tank, picked up the chick, banged its head against the metal stock tank breaking the chick's neck, and then threw it back into the tank completely dead.

He ended that chick's life without malice, and in fact, I suppose it was a mercy kill that saved the chick from suffering a few more hours. I did not say anything.

he couldn't do it elsewhere? I'm glad the chick isn't suffering, but geez that was a bit rough to read this morning! I kind of laughed and felt sad at the same time. I'm hoping no little kids are around looking at the cute chicks when this guy did it, they'd be scarred for life. They'd be telling the story about the chick to their grandkids.

 

[The Dapper Duck]

he couldn't do it elsewhere? I'm glad the chick isn't suffering, but geez that was a bit rough to read this morning! I kind of laughed and felt sad at the same time. I'm hoping no little kids are around looking at the cute chicks when this guy did it, they'd be scarred for life. They'd be telling the story about the chick to their grandkids.

This is just an observation (not judging, peace and love all around), thinking that it would be more appropriate to dispatch the chick elsewhere really speaks to how we as humans are kind of selfish. That guy did the most humane thing for the chick by not taking extra time to take it to around a corner to another room and let it suffer that much more. I know though, it's a tough one to swallow. Like I said, just making an observation about human emotions.

 

[aart]

He took it out of his box and threw it back into the stock tank.

The man buying the chicks or the staff member?
Killing the chick is fine, doing it right there was callous, tossing it back into the tank just stupid. Just another d!ckhead, probably playing to you as an audience.
Curious how store staff reacted?

 

[bobbi-j]

The few seconds it would have taken to go around the corner out of sight of customers wouldn’t have made that much difference. What got me is that he “threw it back in the stock tank”!

 

[Mybackyardpeepers]

I am so glad my local feed stores including the one my daughter works for has a little more decent people than that. I don't know if I could just keep my mouth shut.

 

[The Dapper Duck]

The few seconds it would have taken to go around the corner out of sight of customers wouldn’t have made that much difference. What got me is that he “threw it back in the stock tank”!

Yea, tossing it back in seems weird. Especially if it was sickly. The only things I can think of is that they clean those tanks for dead chicks regularly and he was going to get back to it soon and thought it was better than putting it in his pocket. Also if it was sickly it wouldn't be contagious or all the chicks would already have it, so I guess no worries there.

Meh, maybe just a far more pragmatic (or busy) person than the rest.

 

[danceswithronin]

The man buying the chicks or the staff member?
Killing the chick is fine, doing it right there was callous, tossing it back into the tank just stupid. Just another d!ckhead, probably playing to you as an audience.
Curious how store staff reacted?

Yeah, I feel like he was doing this to show out, not because he actually cared about the welfare of the animal. "Look what a billy bad*ss farmer I am, I am the steward of my agricultural domain, I give and take life at will!"

I think it shows lack of respect.

If he didn't want the failing chick, he should have put it back and picked a healthy one from the bin. It is the store staff's responsibility to cull failing chicks, not that redneck.

 

[Doublete]

Yea I wouldn’t have liked that...
I’m not clear if it was store staff or a customer though? It wasn’t the customers right to do that...

 

[chkva]

The man buying the chicks or the staff member?
Killing the chick is fine, doing it right there was callous, tossing it back into the tank just stupid. Just another d!ckhead, probably playing to you as an audience.
Curious how store staff reacted?

Thank you for saying how I felt when I read this! It's the humane thing to do to help the chick on its way, but doing it inside the store then tossing it into the tub was pretty callous!