A Cautionary Tale of Non-Stick Pans & Chicks
One of my customers picked up a box of cute fluffy chicks, took them home and set them up in the brooder next to her kitchen. She then started dinner, cooking in a non-stick pan over gas.
The chicks started to have breathing troubles and look sleepy and then one-by-one, they died. She and her daughters were horrified and sad, and the chicks, well, they didn’t get to have their lives.
So this is your reminder that fumes from non-stick pans kill birds and that gas ranges — if not perfectly vented — can also give off noxious fumes. Best practice is to keep your babies away from the kitchen.
I feel so sad for the babies, and for the customer. She didn’t know. But now you do.
My casual records indicate that 2% of the chicks we hatch won’t make it to Day 10. This is why a hen lays an egg nearly every day.
A sad story. One of my customers picked up a box of cute fluffy chicks, took them home and set them up in the brooder next to her kitchen. She then started dinner, cooking in a non-stick pan over gas.
We don’t like to talk about it. We don’t like to think about it. And we certainly don’t want to discover it in our brooder in the morning. But chicks die. Some perfectly cute floofy little chicks just don’t make it, which is why hens reproduce themselves almost every day.
Mom, why is your b**b chirping?