I was thinking of a sad memory of Easter--those colored real live peeps. I remember getting my new

[debm55]

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dress shoes the day before Easter and the shoe salesman said for me to pick a chick.They seemed odd-pinks, blues and bright greens. They were all in the display box. I didn't want one. But my parents said to take it as it came with the shoes. I played with it all day and made a home for it from a box in the basement. I had picked a pink one and in my child's mind, I thought it would grow up to be a pink chicken. I was a city girl and had never seen a chick before. They gave us a small brown bag of feed. I placed the box near the furnace and petted my chick till it was time to go to sleep. When I got up I ran to the basement to see if she ate all her food. She died. I found a smaller box,made a pillow and blanket from kleenix and buried her in the yard. I always remember the pink chick. I also wondered why they gave them out for free.My family was anything but loving. I thought I had someone to love and take care of.and something that would love me. Did anyone else get a chick and did it survive?

[snowybirdie]

1. Won a chick

at a Sportsmans show when I was 10. we kept it in A kitchen pen for a few weeks. It grew very fast. One day I came home and was told the chick had gone to a farm to be with other chicks. I believed them. Poor chick.😱

[debm55]

2. I don't know what they were thinking to give a child a fragile baby animal. I was about 5 when it

happened to me. I'm so glad they stopped doing that.

[debm55]

8. Sorry snowybird. I am so glad that tradition of giving chicks away for Easter is far behind us. It's

cruel to both the child and the animal.

[debm55]

15. That's sad.

[XanaDUer2]

3. I was thinking of a sad adopted kitten

Thing that happened to me. Terrible shelter in the early 70s. Picked my kitten. It was sick. We brought it back. Still remember cuddling it in the car while mom shopped for cat supplies. It always saddens me. Poor thing

[debm55]

5. Sorry XanaDUer 2 and sorry for the poor kitten.

[XanaDUer2]

6. Ty

Yes, this was 1972 and i still remember that kitten

[rsdsharp]

4. We didn't do that, but when my little sister was in first grade, she got the class chick.

Her class hatched out an egg I believe, and they were going to have a drawing on Good Friday to see which class member won the chick. Our father died on the Tuesday before Easter, and the class voted to give the chick to Mary instead of having the drawing.

Soooo, Good Friday afternoon, the day before the funeral, her teacher showed up with a baby chick, whose peeping drove us crazy for a few days until we gave it to a cousin who owned a farm. I’m pretty sure how that chick ended up, as I have childhood memories of my parents helping my cousin’s mother and step-father behead and dress chickens.

[debm55]

7. So sorry rsdharp for your dad and your family..

[rsdsharp]

9. Thank you. It was 1969.

I won’t say I’m over it, but the passage of more than fifty years takes a lot of the sting out of it.

Still glad we got rid of that damn chicken 🐥, though!

[blueinredohio]

10. I remember my brother worked at a gas station

and they used to give chicks for filling up with gas if you wanted one.

[debm55]

16. I am glad they stopped that.

[markie]

11. right now

baby chicks are worth their weight in gold... no one is giving them away...

and... it is policy, if not law that stores can't sell less than 6 to one person... that is the direct result of past traditions of giving baby animals (chicks, bunnies) at Eastertime

[debm55]

13. I think you misunderstood my post. And I know that it is against policy to sell the dyed chicks. I

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was asking if anyone had one that survived the night as I always suspected that they were too young and frail to be given away. I didn't want it then, but once my parent told me to take it. I did. And, as an abused child, I took it and loved it. I am not dumb, It was wrong to give them away. I never took another, never wanted another. It was a tradition at the time to give them away and it was wrong for both the animal and the six year old child. It was heartless, mean and cruel. In that respect, I don't understand your post and the reasoning to place it here if you really read my opening post. Please don't tsk me,, This was back in 1961.I wasn't asking about now, I was asking about 60 years ago, Your not as smart as you think you are nor do I think you were ever beaten over the back with a Hoover canister metal rod for saying your shoes were too tight.

[markie]

17. so sorry

forgive me for the miscommunication... I did understand your post

I was tsking the adults for not thinking through things... I have raised chickens most of my life and I more than understand the pain of losing... even as an adult, it hurts


I offer you a photo of my little rooster Pepper going after the beetles I gave him...

[Yonnie3]

12. We got a couple as gifts

It was mid 1950s I guess. My mom raised them and they were not hens, but roosters. They terrorized us kids. Near to her death my mom was remembering all sorts of stuff. She brought up that I had said I liked my chicken better in chicken salad. I only recall the rooster attacking me, but it sure sounds like me around age 5.

[debm55]

14. yes, back then it was. I am glad that it has stopped. I sort of blamed myself for what happened to

her. Got no hugs or words of sympathy from my parents. Even as a young child, I didn't expect any. Roosters can be very agressive. My neighbor has three chickens and they and he uses them for eggs.