Morrality question about chicks

[ThisGuy]

Last weekend while tending go my yard I noticed one of my chick's was still doing bad. She had a bad leg and it was getting worse. So I put her out of her misery plain and simple. I had a bonfire going so I disposed of her there so the dogs didn't try and dig her up. While tending the fire I poked her with a stick, now fully cooked and she looked delicious! I of course did not eat her since she wasn't dressed but it got me thinking. Should I have ate her? I've ate small quail and she's a 3 week old Cornish X, not huge but would have made a good lunch. Would I have been right to do so? That is what I purchased her for, she was just still a baby. Anyway let me know what you think. My wife thought I was an animal because I thought of it lol.

 

[trunkman]

I would have eaten her, not because I am an animal but it seems to me a chicken was put on this earth for food either through their eggs or meat, we buy meat when we buy groceries and the meat came from an animal that died.
You helped that chick by putting it out of its misery. What I think is sad is that its life was wasted in the fire, it was put here to help sustain life whether it was yours or another creature. If I kill an animal I eat it, if the animal dies on its own which happens all the time in nature I feed it to nature, I bring them to the woods line and let nature take care of it, foxes, racoons, owls, they all have to eat too so I feel it's not wasted, as a matter of fact I did just that yesterday when one of my meat birds died, I'm sure it will be consumed by a hungry creature. Those are my thoughts anyway, hope it helps.

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

I don't see anything wrong with butchering a healthy bird that had to be killed because of an injury. As long as the injury did not get infected. I would not eat a bird that was possibly sick, example I find the bird laying in the pen almost dead with no external injuries.

 

[ThisGuy]

Thanks, next time I will dress and eat them for sure. I've never killed something I didn't intend to eat so it was weird not to this time. I'm gonna have to have a long talk to my wife about food and where it comes from she's been hesitant about this whole ordeal. While I feel bad for wasting it I suppose it was a lesson to be learned for a first timer. Thanks again for the responses.

 

[Hummingbird Hollow]

I would have eaten it because I can't stand a life wasted. I've eaten a pullet that was killed by a bobcat (saw it happen, chased the bobcat off but the pullet died moments later) and I've eaten a hen that was dying of a prolapse when I found her in the morning. I had all sorts of conflicting opinions on this forum from folks after I butchered each bird and then asked "is she safe to eat", but the folks who said "sure, I would" seemed to have the most common sense, rather than answering out of emotion. I don't know how much meat you'd actually get out of the little one you had to dispatch and I imagine that butchering something that small would be a challenge, but heck. Folks eat quail and they are tiny.

 

[ozarkchicks]

would have been a little hard to butcher but I would have ate it. it was right to put the chick out of it's misery but it was a shame that it went to waste. if it had to die it might as well have had a purpose, it that case providing food