Lesson in culling baby chick?

[danceswithronin]

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!

I don't disagree with culling the chick and probably would have culled it in a similar way (in the quiet privacy of my home, with a respectful disposal afterwards), but to do it in the middle of the store is really uncouth. If the customer did it, it wasn't his place to do so if he had no intention of buying the ill chick, and if the staff did it, it was very unprofessional not to take it in the back to do it. Tossing it back in the brooder like a piece of trash is just, ugh... I don't know that I would have been able to hold my tongue.

 

[chkva]

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.

I get what you are saying but this guy just seemed to do it to be a show out. Seeing how he threw it back in with the others, this has nothing to do with the emotions of human beings. What he did was wrong! You don't throw a dead baby chick that's sick in with other healthy chicks! You also do not do this in front of a store with customers, that is plain simple customer service.

I'm not sure if it was the store worker or the customer who offed the chick, but it doesn't really matter because both would be in the wrong!

 

[The Moonshiner]

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.

Why's it gotta be a "redneck" ?
Some suburbanites are just as stupid or more so then us hillbillies.
Just saying.

 

[chkva]

I don't disagree with culling the chick and probably would have culled it in a similar way (in the quiet privacy of my home, with a respectful disposal afterwards), but to do it in the middle of the store is really uncouth. If the customer did it, it wasn't his place to do so if he had no intention of buying the ill chick, and if the staff did it, it was very unprofessional not to take it in the back to do it. Tossing it back in the brooder like a piece of trash is just, ugh... I don't know that I would have been able to hold my tongue.

I couldn't hold my tongue if I saw that...

One time I went into Southern States and they had a chick that was about 2 seconds from death... Suffering. I went up to the staff member and ask them how long they were going to allow the chick to suffer inside of a box with no food or water in the direct light. After I said something they ended its suffering... There was no way that the chick was ever going to come back, it looked so sick.

There is a fine line between humanely doing things and inhumanely doing things... I feel many times people look at chicks or chickens as a disposable animal.

If anything ever happened to any of my chickens where they needed to be euthanized, I would do it as humanely as possible.

Why's it gotta be a "redneck" ?
Some suburbanites are just as stupid or more so then us hillbillies.
Just saying.

you're killing me

 

[starri33]

I would not have been able to bite my tongue and the words I would have said would not have been polite, if it were the customer that did it and then tossed the chick back in with the others he's a d*ckhead and the store employee if they were the ones who did it would have not only gotten a earful, they also would have been reported.

 

[danceswithronin]

Why's it gotta be a "redneck" ?
Some suburbanites are just as stupid or more so then us hillbillies.
Just saying.

I didn't really mean that to be a geographical crack, just meant that's a really "white trash" thing to do, to cull a chick in the middle of a crowded store and just throw its dead body back in the bin like that.

I don't see a suburbanite doing that though to a cute newborn baby chick, many are too squeamish to cull their own chickens even when the medical situation clearly calls for it. Plus suburbanites rarely buy 30 chickens at one go.

the store employee if they were the ones who did it would have not only gotten a earful, they also would have been reported

Agreed 100%, I am not a complainer as a general rule because I work customer service, but I would have gone to a manager so fast it woulda made the guy's head spin if he was an employee. Very unprofessional.

 

[Hobbits Mommie]

I'd say it was just plain disrespectful. Ending a life, any life, in my opinion should be done to in such a way to preserve "everyones" dignity.

 

[chkva]

I'd say it was just plain disrespectful. Ending a life, any life, in my opinion should be done to in such a way to preserve "everyones" dignity.

Yes! This should be how it is and how it used to be before everyone got so desensitized about death. No one cares anymore about the ending of a life... Life is precious whether it's an animal or a human!

 

[danceswithronin]

Yes! This should be how it is and how it used to be before everyone got so desensitized about death. No one cares anymore about the ending of a life... Life is precious whether it's an animal or a human!

Watching the documentary Earthlings (narrated by Joaquin Phoenix) has made me hyperaware of humanity's relationship with the animals that we exploit for our own gain.

I recommend everybody watch it at least once. The trailer music alone is enough to give me goosebumps now. It completely changed the way I looked at animals and livestock. I was even vegan for two and a half years after I watched it because I was so shocked at the way meat and dairy animals are treated by Big Agro.

One of the most influential films I've ever seen. I will warn though that it is quite graphic and disturbing in some parts, especially those to do with circuses, factory farming, and vivisection. The most horrifying part of it is that it's all real.

 

[chkva]

Watching the documentary Earthlings (narrated by Joaquin Phoenix) has made me hyperaware of humanity's relationship with the animals that we exploit for our own gain.

I recommend everybody watch it at least once. The trailer music alone is enough to give me goosebumps now. It completely changed the way I looked at animals and livestock. I was even vegan for two and a half years after I watched it because I was so shocked. One of the most influential films I've ever seen.

I'm 100% plant based with the exception of eating the eggs my hens lay (I know that my hens are treated very well and they are not living in the conditions of commercial chickens). I don't let that cloud my judgment about farming done the correct way... There are farmers who truly care about their animals and they take pride in their animals, there are other farmers who treat their animals like dirt on the bottom of their shoe! I respect farmers who do things humanely... My family eats meat that is farmed the correct way because I've watched all those documentaries and they literally made my stomach turn! Those documentaries are truly the reason why I am plant based and why I have my own chickens for eggs...

People still are blinded sometimes even when they watch those documentaries because we have all become desensitized to what's going on around us!

Thank you for sharing this!