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Choke my chicken or no?

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Last summer I had a wild turkey show up at the house and he was just getting out of his baby feathers. I started feeding him wild bird seed and he stayed around the house. He was around for about 2 months. He used to like to walk the top of my red cedar fence and make turkey squawks at my dogs. One day I came out to check on him and I didn't see him so I went around the fence and there he was. The stupid shit had gotten his leg trapped between two of the boards on the fence and broke his leg. I pried the boards loose and got his little leg out of there. He lasted about 2 days before he died on his own. Everyone here at work that I told this story to got pissed at me for not killing him and ending his suffering. I couldn't bring myself to do it. He was my turkey damnit!!!! …and no I didn't eat him. I buried him the back yard.
 
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The rooster is doing better. My wife and I put him in a 3 foot x 8 foot wire cage built on a 2x4 frame. The cage was then put inside the chicken house. Legs hold the cage about 3 feet off the ground.

His food bowl is screwed to the frame so he can not knock it over. He has a 1 gallon waterer in there with him.

He even has a window next to his cage so he can catch a breeze and look outside.

From where the cage is at he can see other chickens inside the chicken house.

The rooster will stay there until he can either rejoin the flock or dies.

In 3 months he went from not being able to walk or eat, to being able to walk and feed himself. As long as he keeps making progress I will hold the faith.
 
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ViperXX said:
Last summer I had a wild turkey show up at the house and he was just getting out of his baby feathers. I started feeding him wild bird seed and he stayed around the house. He was around for about 2 months. He used to like to walk the top of my red cedar fence and make turkey squawks at my dogs. One day I came out to check on him and I didn't see him so I went around the fence and there he was. The stupid shit had gotten his leg trapped between two of the boards on the fence and broke his leg. I pried the boards loose and got his little leg out of there. He lasted about 2 days before he died on his own. Everyone here at work that I told this story to got pissed at me for not killing him and ending his suffering. I couldn't bring myself to do it. He was my turkey damnit!!!! …and no I didn't eat him. I buried him the back yard.
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:'(
 
Mr. rooster passed away last night to natural causes.

I feel like crying.

When I get home this evening my wife and I are going to bury him under a fig tree.

Damn it. I loved that chicken. This is why I hate having pets, I develop an emotional attachment.
 
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Sounds like he should have been put out of his misery weeks ago. That's (one of the many things) I hate about a lot of pet owners: they allow their animals to suffer due to their own emotional attachment, rather than doing the proper and humane thing.
 
Texashiker said:
Update

The rooster is doing better. My wife and I put him in a 3 foot x 8 foot wire cage built on a 2x4 frame. The cage was then put inside the chicken house. Legs hold the cage about 3 feet off the ground.

His food bowl is screwed to the frame so he can not knock it over. He has a 1 gallon waterer in there with him.

He even has a window next to his cage so he can catch a breeze and look outside.

From where the cage is at he can see other chickens inside the chicken house.

The rooster will stay there until he can either rejoin the flock or dies.

In 3 months he went from not being able to walk or eat, to being able to walk and feed himself. As long as he keeps making progress I will hold the faith.
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Pictures of said rooster!
 
Carson Dyle said:
Sounds like he should have been put out of his misery weeks ago. That's (one of the many things) I hate about a lot of pet owners: they allow their animals to suffer due to their own emotional attachment, rather than doing the proper and humane thing.
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That does happen, but hindsight is 20/20.
 
Texashiker said:
Mr. rooster passed away last night to natural causes.

I feel like crying.

When I get home this evening my wife and I are going to bury him under a fig tree.

Damn it. I loved that chicken. This is why I hate having pets, I develop an emotional attachment.
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Rooster == Chicken
Chicken == Food
Rooster == Dead

Please choose the appropriate action:

Have a funeral and a burial || Have a BBQ



:Confused
 
sao123 said:
Rooster == Chicken
Chicken == Food
Rooster == Dead

Please choose the appropriate action:

Have a funeral and a burial || Have a BBQ
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It's generally not too smart to eat animals that you didn't slaughter. Eating roadkill is safer than eating something that died "of natural causes".
 
Thebobo said:
Pictures of said rooster!
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My wife and I were wondering if there may have been a genetic problem. Notice the left wattle is much smaller than the right one.

This picture was taken about a month before his stroke.

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Thebobo said:
Thats one handsome rooster.
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Thank you.

He was very protective over his flock. The slightest noise and he would come running. From the time he took charge of the flock till he had his stroke, we did not lose a single chicken.

He did not allow the girls to fight between themselves. If two hens got into a fight, he would jump between them and put stop to it.

The dogs would not go anywhere around him. Instead of walking through the flock, the dogs would walk around the flock.

Unlike a rhode island red rooster I gave my cousin, he runs from everything.

I have been crying a lot over the past few days.
 
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