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  1. rgrillo

    Do you let your children watch you butcher a chicken?

    I have to assume that you are asking this question based on your apprehension about traumatizing your children over seeing the killing of a sentient being, chicken or other? That is a moral dilemma that I personally find fascinating and write about. If you have an open mind, take a gander at my...
  2. rgrillo

    Do you let your children watch you butcher a chicken?

    My neighbor's 3-year-old child came to visit my hens the other day. "I don't eat chicken because I don't want them to die for us," he said. I write about humane education so I think I would be the odd man out here to tell you that we need a very different kind of teaching for our children, one...
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    How do you live with yourself eating the birds you raised?

    Quote: I never asked you or any of the others to justify or defend how you can reconcile butchering and eating animals that you raised, food animals or other. My point was simply that regardless of the status of the animal, food animal, companion animal, or other, the complex relationships we...
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    How do you live with yourself eating the birds you raised?

    Quote: What do you say to those of us that have tried to do what you have suggested, and found themselves very ill? After over a decade of vegetarianism, focusing on what I thought (so the books said) was a healthy well rounded diet, I was ill and depressed. It wasn't until I added meat back...
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    How do you live with yourself eating the birds you raised?

    Quote: Agree with you and appreciate your perspective. But humor me for a minute. Consider this position: Our government subsidizes animal ag. That's why our ag system is so animal focused in my opinion. There currently is not enough acreage to grow enough fruit and veggies to allow everyone...
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    How do you live with yourself eating the birds you raised?

    Quote: I never asked you or any of the others to justify or defend how you can reconcile butchering and eating animals that you raised, food animals or other. My point was simply that regardless of the status of the animal, food animal, companion animal, or other, the complex relationships we...
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    How do you live with yourself eating the birds you raised?

    Quote: Actually we shouldn't HAVE to justify it, no more than you should have to justify keeping them as pets. No one is negating the fact that chickens are animals, beautiful and sometimes fun to keep around. That they are also considered a major food source in this country as well as...
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    How do you live with yourself eating the birds you raised?

    I raise chickens for the sole reason because I enjoy having them around as pets. I don't eat their eggs. I give them away to the neighbors. I would never consider slaughtering or eating them, no more than would a dog or cat pet owner. There mere fact that some justify this based on the premise...
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    Sunflower Seeds

    Never mind! BOSS is black oil sunflower seeds. Duh!
  10. rgrillo

    Sunflower Seeds

    Beautiful pics! What breed are the buff colored hens with the black speckling around the neck? I've seen these before in a magazine. I'm sorry but what is BOSS? This is a new one for me. My new hen is from a farm that didn't want her and she seemed to have been mistreated. She already looks a...
  11. rgrillo

    Sunflower Seeds

    Thanks for your advise. So just to be clear, Muggsmagee, you are mixing in the black sunflower seeds IN THE SHELL with their feed, correct? Or are they sold already shelled? On another subject, I've been giving the girls some really small cherry tomatoes which to my surprise they have often...
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    pests!!!!help

    I have been advised to use diatomeceous earth FOOD GRADE as an effective yet very safe alternative to the harsher pesticides that can do more harm than good, including neurological and physiological harm to all animals including us humans. Unfortunately the food grade variety is tougher to find...
  13. rgrillo

    Sunflower Seeds

    So, it sounds like most people are feeding them sunflower seeds in the shell. I wasn't sure they could crack open the shells but obviously they can. The wild birds do this well.
  14. rgrillo

    Sunflower Seeds

    I have two hens that I raised from chicks that are now about 18 weeks old. They are out foraging for large parts of the day. They have a good quality feed on hand at all times but just seem to pick at it (unless they are going at it when I am not watching). I give them healthy treats a couple of...
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