We just culled out favorite hen. We found her with a severely swollen head. Hearing we culled her probably makes us sound heartless but I believe letting her live would have been heartless. This bird had been to hell and back in the last few months starting with a hawk attack. She was a little silkie and she didn't deserve to be doctored again just because she "might" be okay. She deserved to be able to stop fighting so hard time free time after time.
Your idea of "love" is just different than others. To me, letting an animal suffer and calling it love is cruel. A person does that for themselves, not the critter.
I remember reading that botched butcher story years ago. I thought it was one of the most cruel, inhumane things I'd ever heard. A good person would have quickly swung that axe again and ended it.
We will be butchering our own chickens for the VERY reason you said "isn't" valid. Because I feel that for MY family, if we can eat meat we should be able to kill it ourselves. I don't like it but I can't give money to these companies that are abusing these animals anymore.
If you can buy that meat and eat it yet judge people on here that take really good care of their chickens.....well you're placing your frustrations on the wrong people.
While I am truly sorry that happened, I have to respectfully disagree, she could have been doctored again and she may have survived and thrived, but we shall never know because she was culled and I am not claiming that was easy, but culling under any circumstance is something I could never ever do. I would hold them and comfort them, perhaps give them pain pills that birds can take, sing to them lightly, and pray, let them know it's okay and that if they cannot hold on it's not selfish to let go.
I know my idea of love is different I can quickly tell that it's different, but sometimes it's a good thing to be different... I have spent my whole life wondering what's wrong with me, why am I different? why do people misunderstand me? until it hit me that I don't want to be like everyone else, I don't want to fit in, I like me just the way I am. As for letting an animal suffer - who says they're suffering? how does one even know that? who really has the right to decide who lives and who dies? it's like euthanasia people telling other people who gets to live and who dies and at the end of the day nobody has that right, everyone including animals has the right to live their lives until they die of natural causes or in the case of animals that are truly needed for meat, not killed solely based on their sex. Euthanasia is not death with dignity but instead it's a slippery slope. Birds and animals in general are a lot like humans they have an amazing will to survive because that's how God made us, He made us to survive until our time is up, and nobody has the right to make that choice but the person and the animal.
As for eating meat I never ever said I was against eating meat whatsoever, that was an assumption made by many here which I am honestly used to... and I stand by what I said butchering a bird because it's a rooster is not a valid reason, I could understand culling one for meat even though it's not something I would personally do but to each their own, but to cull a bird because it's a roo is utterly silly and selfish. As for those companies I agree they typically do abuse their animals and I absolutely do NOT condone that, I never said I did, again that's another assumption. At the end of the day what's so different about them and the people here that say they kill roos because they were born a male and not a female? There really isn't much of a difference is there? As for me buying meat and eating meat; what does that have to do with anything? again you and many others are assuming I am against eating meat, no I am not against eating meat, I am against individuals killing birds because they're roos, and for aesthetic reasons like plucked looking feathers and so forth.
I have no frustrations, it's more like me feeling appalled at how heartless humanity can be, they talk like culling is easy yet when questioned they get defensive and claim how it was so hard to put the animal down... that's contradictory, just like how you said your bird was suffering and you hated to do it, yet in another sentence you claim you cull other birds for reasons I claimed were not valid reasons. I just cannot fathom why people do it - cull roosters because they're a rooster, that is all... it's strange how forums have these cliques and Heaven forbid one goes against the grain they get attacked. I stated how I felt and BOOM everyone assumed I was either for PETA, a Vegan, or a Vegetarian... to which I owe no explanation really because what I am is my business. In fact there is a difference between those 3 things, PETA kills more animals than they help, Vegetarians consume eggs - milk - and cheese, whereas Vegans abstain from not only meat but all animal byproducts, and for the record consuming animal byproducts is different than slaughtering an animal. Many here has questioned me on whether I drink milk, eat cheese / eggs saying that I must somehow support these industries if I do, that is an absolutely crazy thing to say because it has no truth to it. Another odd thing noted is that when I said how I felt I never attacked anyone I just stated how I felt and many got offended and told me to go elsewhere, who has the right to tell me where to go just because I think differently? nobody. Another thing is; first everyone assumed I was either for PETA, Vegetarian, or a Vegan, then when I replied to that everyone clamored in and went with the whole oh if you eat eggs, milk, or cheese then you must be supporting these evil companies that abuse these animals, it's all just a silly attack and argument to put someone like me down who just so happens to think differently, I get told to leave for having a different opinion but it's okay for everyone to continuously ask me silly questions, flame me, goad me, and then when I reply all I hear is you need to leave nobody agrees with you, yada yada when the fact is at least 2 people maybe even 3 people has agreed with half if not all of what I said. At any rate the individuals who said nobody agrees with me are indeed wrong, there is other people out there like me, people that have compassion, they have a backbone, and they don't mind speaking their mind even under opposition and persecution.
I don't go to the meat section telling everyone to stop eating meat, but instead I did go to other sections telling people to give some birds a chance mainly the roosters because they have a lot of love to give - again this has nothing to do with birds being slaughtered for meat, but it has everything to do with birds that are killed for silly reasons. All I did was post saying how I felt on the subject of allegedly having too many roos, I honestly don't think there is such a thing as too many roos perse' and if one feels that way perhaps they should not be breeding their hens especially if they intend to cull the roosters, because I know with firsthand experience that most hatches end up being roos. I have done my research and I have seen these companies and even local farmers cull birds as soon as they're sexed a roo, and it's terribly wicked. If the world was flipped and it was us being culled which I believe can happen in fact it already does happen in certain countries I will not name, anyway Heaven forbid the boys or hey the girls could be culled because so and so wanted this sex over that sex. I am sorry If you and others cannot see how ridiculous that is, but I see it, and just because the majority / mob rules does not mean the ruling is right.
It makes no sense to attack someone, then try to silence them, and under the same breath goad them into a reply... it's contradictory, hypocritical, and silly. If one does not like what another person says scroll down. I don't comment under someone unless replied to, unless it's a topic and topics are for discussions are they not? So if one makes a topic I feel I have the right to state my opinion, if one does not like that opinion oh well but from now on I will no longer be defending my opinions because quite frankly I again owe nobody an explanation, all explaining seems to do is cause trouble, because people love to goad and harass anyone different in hopes of getting them banned.
I think before one attacks another person that believes the way that I do they should first make sure they do not contradict themselves first, because one cannot claim to feel saddened about culling their birds while claiming they cull the other birds for silly reasons, which is one huge contradiction, what makes one bird better than the other? What makes an elderly person with little money turned away from the hospital somehow worse than a young person with wealth who is welcomed in? Forgive me for also laying this question out there, who has the right to decide who suffers and who does not? look at Terry Shiavo (again I know there's a difference between animals and humans - even though people wrongly assume we're animals until an argument over morals like this arises *chuckle* ) anyway she was starved for 13 days I believe - correct me if I am wrong, but nobody had the right to make that decision for her. At any rate I will not go on about that, I wouldn't want what I said to cause the whole topic to be derailed, but I do hope someone here gets where I was trying to go / get at. I guess what I am trying to say is, yes I hate to see any animal suffer, but I know that they struggle to survive, and the ones that cannot hold on any longer will ultimately cease to exist on this Earth, but there are some who will fight for as long as they can, some even go the distance and pull through, but we will never know that unless we give them a fighting chance. If something happened to me I would want the right to fight, I could careless how bad it appeared that I was suffering, because I am a fighter, I know this world has it's downs and stuff, but for every down there is an up! for every storm there is the sun! pain may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning! love can keep us alive!
