Had a surreal moment at my house today. Today was freezer camp day for a few young roos. I do everything in the house and garage. Gary turned on Pandora (tv radio) for me while I worked. So some of the boys were sent over the bridge to Disany musical music. Pretty sure that is how psycho's...
I let my old girls live their lives in the wild so to speak. They get turned loose in the yard to have a good time. Eventually something gets them. I am too much a softy about my hens. Roosters or cornish x are not the same to me.
My ex husband and I used to process a lot of animals. I was the skinner and with rabbits who have similar issues in the leg joints, I would cut feet off and start at the joint and go up the inside of the leg and stop around the hip area. The go back to the top and pull down and everything would...
I so agree with your post. If you are raising animals specifically for meat your job is to keep it healthy, clean it's enclosure and in general make its life happy and it's death as quick and painless as possible. Animals/chickens really live for the moment and a juicy bug or a strawberry makes...