RANT!!!! My husband killed my favorite hen!! R all hubbys this dumb??

[Slinkytoys]

Hubby LIED and your animals paid the price. I can abide mistakes, can forgive them but lying about it? Oh heck NO!!!! He would be a very sorry man if he were mine. I find when they get away with things like this, they feel that they can do them again. Time to nip this behavior in the bud. Good luck making him understand that this WILL NOT EVER happen again. My husband knows that I won't tolerate my animals taking a back seat with their needs. His parents raised him right. If he messes up, he will admit it and we try to work it out. It seems your hubby feels he can pat you on the head and get on with himself.
Slinky

 

[kathyinmo]

fattie,
I am sorry for your loss. It is very difficult when our special pets die, no matter what the reason. My condolences.

 

[journey11]

Oh how sad. I would be pretty torn up too. Awful way for an animal to go.

 

[Chickaholic]

All hubbies not bad, just not that into the chickens as much as we are, most of the time..... Sometimes they fall for them though! Just make sure you know whats going on before you are being rushed out the door

(coming from someone who has lost chickens recently too, I know how your feeling right now) I am so sorry for your loss

 

[PineappleMama]

Guess I'm lucky. With ours being a 5g jug (w/pipes and nipples) it can be a bit unweildy for me to try and lift it and not let the girls out so a coupla times I've asked hubby to do it... have since figured another way but during that time hubby was willing.

Of course, the fact that he hasn't had me committed yet makes me think I'm lucky... so there ya go.

Trick is to marry someone who's just as nutty as you are... though perhaps in a different vein to keep things interesting.

Sorry you lost your favorite girl. I don't know how I'd handle that... and DD, she'd be very very upset... though, that right there might be why DH is willing to come through... he's a sucker for 'the look' as much as I am.

 

[whillo]

So sorry you lost your girl. I've got one of those... hubby's I mean. I don't think it's a lie, I think it's just being a little blonde. I'm really careful when I take my girls out in the yard for a bit of sunshine that I check where Kitty is first and then lock her IN the house. H came home just as I was doing that and followed me out. I kept saying "did you latch the door". "Yes." "Are you sure." "Yes." Two seconds later, Kitty runs out of the house and into the yard. "Well, I thought I did." DOH!!!
He moves super fast and never looks down but says he does, when they're in the kitchen. I'm so afraid he's going to step on one!
And funny...when I ask him if he filled the dog's bowl, he always says he did, yet when I fill it, it still has water at the end of the day. Hmmmm.

What I've decided is that in order to save my chicks from the same fate as yours, I will always make sure that *I* am the one closing doors, filling water, giving food and having that arm out to stave off the big stomp.

Ya gotta love 'em though, right? (He'll be working on the coop soon, then I'll give him many many kudos!)

 

[Show Me Chick]

Slinklytoys wrote:Hubby LIED and your animals paid the price.

Her husband may have not meant to lie. He might have said yes and not paid attention to what she was actually asking. Husbands learn to just say yes to any question. LOL. I could be wrong but I can't imagine why he would intentionally do something like that.​

 

[twentynine]

So the water jug doesn't last multiple days? or Even one 24 hour cycle?

Opinion only------

I noticed your signature says you are in Maryland, the temperatures are much more moderate there than in many of the locals the rest of us are posting. Here S. La. 95-100*, with 100% humidity = 105-110* heat index.

Was/is the chicken caged in direct sunlight?

Sadly I have to say that in all the years I have raised chickens I have had a couple of occurances in the summer where my chickens ran out of water, at one time maybe 24 hours. Bright sunshine, extreme heat, 100+ heat index. And I lost not one. They were able to retreat into the shade, lay down conserve energy, and survive. They were very thirsty when I did give them water, and if it would have went on another day I am sure I would have lost some chickens.

Point is--- even with my extreme heat conditions here, while not healthy, they made it through the daylight hours (12hours), for one day.

I think that chicken either had some outstanding health issues that weakened it or it was out of water for more than one 12 hour daylight/heat cycle.

Now I have auto water, 5 gallon bucket with a water trough float in it, along with 2 secondary gravity waterers. Even if I lost water service, my chickens would have water for up to 72 hours. 3 days. In that time I would be able either to restore water service, or begin hauling water filling gravity waterers, or recruit some one to do it if I were physically unable to do it myself.

When was the previous fill of the waterers prior to your husband's fill? Just saying that it sounds to me like that chicken went more than the period of time described without water.

 

[spectrumranch]

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Excellent post...... same thing I thought......... hopefully we will get answers.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

If the bird died from dehydration, that did not happen in a 12 hour period. Sounds like they didn't have enough water to begin with regardless of the dry waterbowl.

I just love these Bash the Husband threads, maybe some of you old hens need to take a look in the mirror to see what your Dear Old Hubbies might have as complaints about you!