BastyPutt
Yes, your Polish is a cockerel...
We all partake in it. Going to the feed store and see a trough of "sexed" chicks and 40 of those little things running around. But where are the 40 little males that statistically we know exist... or existed.
I am not a PETA warrior, far from it - we butcher a few hundred chickens a year for food. Mainly the roosters that are hatched here.
Reading this, you know the majority of the males are euthanatized and I'm sure very humanely and quickly right after hatching.
But I am ultimately curious what everyone's viewpoint is on this. Should we be supporting hatcheries in this practice? If you no, would you be in a position to raise and butcher roosters?
We hatch our own chicks, and have for years, but not because of this. After learning and reading about it more, I am grateful that we do. We are able to raise the roosters, give them some kind of life and then use them for our family. I understand that we are still essentially doing the same thing as the hatcheries, but there is just something so off in my opinion, about throwing them out because of their sex.
I am not a PETA warrior, far from it - we butcher a few hundred chickens a year for food. Mainly the roosters that are hatched here.
Reading this, you know the majority of the males are euthanatized and I'm sure very humanely and quickly right after hatching.
But I am ultimately curious what everyone's viewpoint is on this. Should we be supporting hatcheries in this practice? If you no, would you be in a position to raise and butcher roosters?
We hatch our own chicks, and have for years, but not because of this. After learning and reading about it more, I am grateful that we do. We are able to raise the roosters, give them some kind of life and then use them for our family. I understand that we are still essentially doing the same thing as the hatcheries, but there is just something so off in my opinion, about throwing them out because of their sex.