Someone Killed One Of My Chickens!!

[MoriahQuilts]

I'M SO SORRY! I certainly meant killing and torturing animals - for the sake of torturing, NOT hunting or killing animals for food. We hunt, and raise animals for food. I guess that is so normal for me, than I didn't consider that it would be interpreted any other way.

I AM SO SORRY. Its been fun to participate here. I never intended to offend.

Ann

 

[MoriahQuilts]

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No, killing and torturing an animal for fun is what should have been stated. Study's show that killing of animals (for fun) is how most serial killers start. People who kill animals for food either raising them or hunting is not the same thing. I wish people would put things in a correct way and not just say a part which makes it wrong. I was a criminal justice major and worked in the court system for over 5 years. I did not make the post but I am sorry if people where offended. To the OP catch the person on tape and call the police.

Well said, and I'm sure this is what was intended by the comment, though it was not specified. We process for food here, I was aware of this link between killing animals for fun and serial killers, and took no offense. I did not even catch this omission ("for fun") the first read-through.

Again, I'm so sorry. I did mean "for fun". I am a hunter and raise beef and pork. And plan to raise some chickens for food. I am embarrassed that I worded that poorly.

 

[GarlicEater]

This thread got me thinking .... I used to go with a friend of mine out to a place in E. Colorado and shoot prairie dogs for fun. It's a whole sport, and the magazine Varmint Hunters (or was it Varmint Shooters?) was devoted to, basically, killing for fun. Coyotes, crows, p-dogs, ground hogs, you name it. Sounds pretty sick, huh? So, I was thinking, wow, what's the difference here? And I realized, I've never heard of a varmint hunter, read about a varmint hunter, seen a varmint hunter, want the animal to suffer. It's all about instant turn-off, if possible. Varmint hunters shoot animals that can be killed justifiably - the p-dogs make holes that cattle step in and break their legs, the coyotes are preying on sheep or local pets, the crows are causing problems, etc. In effect there's a sort of "formal declaration of war" against a certain population of certain animals that goes through our heads, plus, we try for a quick, humane, death for them. We like to think it can always be a quick, relatively painless thing. The stuff the serial killers do, well, let's just say they do not want the animal to have a painless death. That's the HUGE difference.

I'm going to guess you have someone very weird in your area, or, and while it sounds like a long shot it may be, you have someone who's really annoyed by the sound of your chickens. I was rooming with a guy a couple of years ago who was really ticked off by the sound of a rooster that must have been 2 blocks away. It was stupid, you could barely hear the thing. It's still a SICK way to show their annoyance, so in that case you still have a pretty strong creepy factor here.

You can't shoot anyone over a chicken. They have to be a threat to YOU. You have to just document everything and work with the cops.

 

[Flyingbavarian]

Again, I'm so sorry. I did mean "for fun". I am a hunter and raise beef and pork. And plan to raise some chickens for food. I am embarrassed that I worded that poorly.

Its okay i understood what ya meant.

O.p. I would definitely try to catch whoever is doing this on film. I hope it doesn't happen again that is scary behavior. Maybe you should lock up the coop and run for a while or at least when you aren't home. Sorry that it happened to you.​

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I think the main difference between this incident and hunting or butchering your own animals is that this wasn't a wild animal and did not belong to the person who killed it. This person went onto someones property and deliberately killed an animal that was in the care of the property owner. It may have brought the killer pleasure to kill a defenseless animal OR it may have been pleasurable to them knowing another human would find their animal dead and either be angry, mournful, or both. There was no sport to it, it was a chicken in a pen.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I guess I do not see what determines that this could not have been a predator rather than a human. I have known of predators to kill birds in cages.

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

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Well, that's a good point too!

 

[GallusGal]

I think the OP mentioned that there was blood smeared on the outside of the pen as if someone had smashed the bird against the side of it, then a drag of blood into the pen - and the injury was a broken neck as opposed to a mauling. It would be odd for a predator to kill a chicken out of the pen then leave it inside, though I do think it is possible that a predator could have struggled with the bird outside, and the bird retreated inside where it later died from its wounds. Being a rooster, he may have stepped up to defend his girls and paid the price.... of course, being a rooster, someone who lives nearby may have also killed him because they were sick of hearing crowing. I heard an awful lot of stories back when I lived in the suburbs about birds, dogs, cats, etc. turning up missing or being found dead after complaints from neighbors about noise/roaming/other pest behaviors, and among birds a rooster that suddenly went missing or turned up dead and full of pellets was not rare.

ETA: Oops, maybe I misread. Not a rooster after all? Not sure where I thought I saw that!

 

[mchl]

im sorry about my outburst. No excuse really , just got back from work early this morning. where someone told me I was trash because i was a hunter and fisherman. because i kill defenseless animals. so sorry again. It would be very desturbing for my birds to be killed.

 

[ranchhand]

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My first thought was a raccoon.