How NOT to treat a baby chick

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How NOT to treat a baby chick
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Tue, 05-02-2006 - 8:21am

WARNING! Black humor alert:

Siobhan and Peter are both growing living things as projects in school. Siobhan's class is incubating eggs, and Peter's class have several cocoons, which will soon be butterflies.

So she is chatting away to me about how to treat a baby chick, and you can hold it very gently, -don't squeeze it or drop it, and pet it with your pinky finger, and it is very delicate and sesnitive. It has to be kept warm or it will DIE. Of course, I used a throw away comment like. "Absolutely you have to keep it warm and take care of it. We don't want to be killing chicks"

Apparently, there is a difference in Siobhan's mind between letting something die, and killing it (of course), so I then got a list of what NOT to do to a baby chick:

Shoot it
Hit it
shake it
Basketball it (?)
Hit it with a bat
Kick it
shoot it with a bow and arrow (Peter's contribution)

(I don't know shere she got some of this stuff. I know I shouldn't have encouraged her, but I taken a bit off guard and just burst out laughing and couldn't stop.

I can just picture her happily relating all of these rules to Mrs R. in school today. "My Mommy said..."

ROFLMAO The phone is going to ring any second!!

-Paula

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Tue, 05-02-2006 - 10:54am

ROFLOL! this strikes me as quite funny! sounds like a dinner conversation at our house! wonder what her teacher thinks of your family!?!?! This one really made my day!

Betsy

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Tue, 05-02-2006 - 4:18pm

Warning.......graphic!!!

I had to post a reply, just because I have actually killed a baby chick :( and how often do you get to say that and it not be completely out of context.

We were at my inlaws farm; they let their chickens wander around because they get out no matter what anyway. There were several mom hens with babies at the time and they were all squawking and peeping around my feet. One of the hens starts to squawk a little louder, so I reply, "don't worry, I won't step on your babies" and guess what I did?

Yes, I stepped on a chick and it is one of the worst memories I have because the next second all the other chicks are there eating it's innards while (I"m not exaggerating) it's still moving.....ugh. I had to go in the house and have a good cry.

A couple of weeks ago DH's grandpa told me that I should have stepped on a few more of the chicks because most of that brood were roosters and now they have 12 roosters all vying for attention, fighting, and cocka-doodle-dooing all day long. I guess that's what happens when you have a tiny brain and all that testosterone.

Chrystee

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Tue, 05-02-2006 - 4:19pm

I agree with Betsy! Too funny!!! The things our kids come up with....but at least they're honest!!

michelle

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Tue, 05-02-2006 - 8:47pm
Paula,
You crack me up! Your life could be a sitcom I swear. I know I'd watch it every week!
Teresa
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Wed, 05-03-2006 - 11:00am

LOL (laughing so loud I am snorting)...........KIDS!!

(SMILE)
Christie

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Wed, 05-03-2006 - 12:04pm

but roosters make good eating ;)

I didn't get The Call from Mrs R. (yet) BTW.

-Paula

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Wed, 05-03-2006 - 10:02pm

Paula,

this whole thread reminded me of a short paragraph from a bunch of stories I've been compiling for my mother's family from her and all her siblings. This is from my favorite aunt, she's the rebel of the family she was talking about her farm chores.

"Now the geese didn't have a fighting chance. I was young and remember going to the chicken yard where these long soft necked creatures just stood around, waiting for me to stroke the long soft necks. Squeezing ever so softly until the head drooped and then the goose drooped and... my mind blotted out the results of what happens when you leave a pile of drooped goose in the chicken yard."

Knowing my grandmother, there was a lot of words, very angry, upset words that she blotted out! I wonder if they had goose for dinner that week?

Betsy

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Wed, 05-03-2006 - 11:31pm

Betsy,

ROFL! I love it!

Maybe your grandma cooked Drooped Goose Stew (with dumplings).

..And what a great idea to compile all that family lore. A photograph can be a poor picture compared to Drooped Goose.

I should do something similar, although I should have done it twenty years ago, before Uncle Padraig; our family storyteller passed on :(

-Paula

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Thu, 05-04-2006 - 10:10am

You guys are too hysterical. Way to start my morning with a smile over dead fowl. I don't believe I have any chick stories to add however. Though Dave's class just got thier eggs yesterday and are working on hatching them. May have some stories after that, lol.

Renee

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Thu, 05-04-2006 - 10:33am

I would have been laughing too!!! The funny things they say :)

Samantha

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