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Well, since you have a contract for eggs to sell, it seems to me that you are going to have to figure out what to do with your old hens or make room for more to add to your flock. If you absolutely can only have four hens, I think you know what you have to do. You don't necessarily have to kill...

In my opinion, this is more cruel than humanely killing and processing them. By "freeing them in the wild" you are leaving them unprotected and vulnerable to predators. And believe me, they WILL be killed at some point by a predator. What is kinder - a quick, humane death that is over with in a...

What one does with spent hens a personal choice, and there is no right or wrong answer (unless, of course, you're torturing them or letting them unnecessarily suffer, but that's a whole other topic). If your chickens are your pets only and you have plenty of room for them can afford to keep...