Oh shit JLZ. 
I am so sorry And pissed :mad: Do you have any recourse?
This. Thank you for asking this. I was trying to remember this word so I could ask but try as I might, I couldn’t pull the word out of my brain.
I pit this god-awful 100 degree heat we have in the South.
I raise pastured (free-range, antibiotic free) meat broilers outside of Austin.
Oh, the hatchery will replace them next week at no charge. But this seriously screws with my production schedule. Our brooders have limited capacity. Part of our farm model is giving the birds ample space to be well, birds, so we’ll have to convert a horse stall to a make-shift brooder next week. More work.
What really pisses me off the most is the suffering and the waste.
I know it may seem ironic since I’ll be slaughtering these chickens 7 1/2 weeks down the road but then it will serve a purpose-feeding people healthy meat.
The dead chicks this morning serve no purpose at all.
Even the vultures won’t get much.
This is kind of morbid but how do you slaughter them? Is it automated? Do you ever get sick of being around chickens? Do you own the farm? What do you do with them besides give them a place to be birds?
You should do an Ask The… thread if you have time. 
My guideline is that if I can see a car with headlights easier than a car without headlights, I turn on my own headlights. If it seems to be a tossup, I turn on my own headlights. I do this because I’ve been in a couple of car wrecks, and would vastly prefer avoiding them in the future. I’ve never been seriously hurt, but even just having the car out of commission is enough of a hassle that I try to make sure that other drivers (who might be distracted, drunk, or otherwise not at full capacity) can see me.
I happen to like grey and silver cars, and sometimes drive one, but yeah, a grey or silver car in fog or heavy rain can be considered “stealth” if it doesn’t have headlights on.
People who attempt to drive AND talk on their phones make me all stabby.
I lucked out in that my new (used) car has auto-running-lights. I don’t have to remember to turn them on OR off, as long as the sensor on the dash keeps working.
ETA: Although, even after 8 months, I STILL don’t quite trust them to turn off when I turn off the car. Maybe once a week or so I’ll wait until the delay circuit shuts them off before I walk away. I don’t do it as often as I did when I first got it, though.
Yes, we do process them onsite. As this is the second time someone’s suggested my creating an Ask the… thread, I’ll go ahead and start one to avoid hijacking this one. It’ll probably sink like a stone. 
What forum should I put it in?
I don’t think it’s ironic at all. Your slaughtering process is, I assume, quick, merciful, and humane. There’s nothing quick or merciful or humane about death by suffocation.
I just got the “whoa there, hold yer horses cowboy” message after a search that FAILED. Buy another fucking hamster, SDMB!
I think they traditionally go in MPSIMS unless the subject matter is highly controversial, in which case maybe Great Debates.
Well, unless we have hardcore PETA people on the board, I doubt it will be controversial at all. As soon as I have a chance, I’ll start a separate thread and stop hijacking this one.
Fuck the hardcore PETA people. They’re even more fantasy driven than the strident Libertarians.
I have a migraine headache, on day number 2 of this crap. It’s a side effect of a medication I take for another issue. Sometimes I wonder if the cure is worse than the disease. And my co-workers have been acting like a bunch of kindergarteners… Tomorrow may not end well. :mad:
Can’t you just have the moppets take care of things?
I’m not sure asking Tim-Tom and Kevin to “take care” of a migraine is such a good idea.
Talk about the cure being worse than the disease…
We bought a whole crate of them, but they suffocated at the shipping agency. 
That previous post was in response to someone griping that the SDMB should invest in a new hamster, by the way.
Mr. Horseshoe, I love you and I’m sorry about all the shit we’re going through right now, but when I bitch about some tune** that’s been incessantly stuck in my head the last two days, the proper response is **NOT **TO START HUMMING IT ! ! !
GAH ! ! !
** that shall remain nameless
- I am so tired of my boss feeling like she has to make some sort of conversation every time she walks past my desk. And she blurts out any old thing that comes into her mouth, so a lot of times it’s really fucking TMI.
- This is the real one: we have been having extensive remodeling and cleaning done at our office. Outside there is a lift to lift workers up. It has been there for about two weeks. Every time it moves, even a little bit, it beeps that annoying 'truck backing up sound". Hundreds of times a day. All day long.
I am about ready to snap and kill someone. it totally sets my teeth on edge. turns up stereo