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My personal opinion here is I would listen to food saftey programs from somewhere like Europe or Australia before I listened to the USDA and their bedfellow Monsatan. I also like to use a thing called common sense when I handle my food lol :P

I couldn't imagine not being allowed to have a garden! I also applaud people who have the gusto to chase a dream and move from the city to the country! It must be exciting but scary at the same time. I follow a lot of blogs of people who did this, I find their inputs interesting as it is often...

To put my 2 cents in. I believe in vaccinations to an extent. Will I be taking my children (if they happen) to get chicken pox or flu shots? No. More serious diseases, yes.

I would say it is laziness, but considering I offered to give him some and he still says no, goes against the laziness factor. He won't even eat my jam or spaghetti sauces. I mean, what could be bad about jam?! I don't know, sometimes I wonder if he thinks carrots grow on trees lol

Beekissed I feel your frustration. My brother is one of those people who are completely brain washed! I posted on facebook that for Christmas I wanted to have one of my roosters for dinner that I have raised and he said he didn't even want to come to my house if it was going to be there! I also...

I agree. I thought that slitting the throat would be awful, but the birds didn't make any noise or even try to flop around, they just stayed still until just before they died when the nerves started convulsing. Also, cutting the head off it NOT as easy as it looks lol!

We do the same thing but without a kill cone. I thought there would be a lot more thrashing around and squawking and what not, but it was actually quite and calm. I am defiantly not looking forward to butchering the rest of the roosters in -18 (feels like -29'C) weather tomorrow :S Annd as for...

I am going to try tomorrow. We have 7 more that need to be butchered. Ugh, a bit nervous, but I just feel like I need to do it in order to fully appreciate it. It also makes me feel like a hypocrite if I don't do it and then rant about how great homesteading is lol! I shall keep you informed of...

I also haven't done the killing part yet (my boyfriend does that), but I pluck, gut and process the carcass. I feel like I should try to kill one myself, but just don't feel confident enough yet (I don't want to mess is up). I do think that people should have to see the process of a chicken...

My boyfriend and I just butchered 3 roosters for the first time 2 days ago. They weren't ours, but raised on a farm not too far from us (10 roosters for $30, not too bad lol). I told a few people, most of them had already butchered their own so they were pretty proud of the fact that we did it...