As the proud owner of six egg-laying chickens, all with their own names, I can honestly say that this sucks and I totally feel for you OP! Our neighbor's dog (whom I later reported to animal control, who issued a stern warning) once attacked one of our chickens (we had seven before). $500 at the vet later, our chicken passed away under veterinary care that night before a specialist could see her. Our neighbor still denies any responsibility. After all of that, I still feel like OP's situation is/was worse!

That's very sad for you but at least they were trying to do something nice and weren't trying to be mean.

I would not marry into that family. I can't believe they would do that... even if they thought the chickens were to eat, why wouldn't they at least assume that you had a plan for when you wanted to eat them, and leave them alone?

What assholes

Hows that so bad? We do that to all of our chicken, cows, and pigs! Even if they do have namess

Damn!

Just **** them up. They ****** up your stuff, so **** up theirs. Sweet, good old fashioned revenge.

Lawyer up that's illegal.

I have 25 all named chickens. if someone ever did this to me, I would most likely kill them

ouuuchh....that---that's just....wow sorry man.