🐔Can you keep a Meat chicken as a pet?🐔

[Molpet]

Yeah, but without them, meat would once more be considered expensive

Yeppers
Used to be only had chicken for Sunday dinner. It was a luxury not the cheapest meat

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Yeah, but without them, meat would once more be considered expensive

They could at least have better living environments for them! It's so sad how they treat their birds. And it's worse for laying hens because they have to live in that condition for almost 2 years instead of 8 weeks....... but I have to say, when the meat birds are brought to processing, that is the worst moment of their lives.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

They could at least have better living environments for them! It's so sad how they treat their birds. And it's worse for laying hens because they have to live in that condition for almost 2 years instead of 8 weeks....... but I have to say, when the meat birds are brought to processing, that is the worst moment of their lives.

Better living environments would cause cost to rise, if not skyrocket

 

[cluckmecoop7]

That's okay with me.

Lives are more important than cash, IMO.

 

[Molpet]

They could at least have better living environments for them! It's so sad how they treat their birds. And it's worse for laying hens because they have to live in that condition for almost 2 years instead of 8 weeks....... but I have to say, when the meat birds are brought to processing, that is the worst moment of their lives.

Which is why I raise my own poultry. But it's about $7 a lb. ....

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Glad you do. Wish I could!

 

[cassie]

Oh, I feel so bad now, I didn't even realize that it would affect them so badly to keep them at that age. I don't know why she was put into a different bin. But at least I know a bit more about meat chickens, just in case something like this happens again

I have kept meat chickens a lot longer than eight weeks. I like big roasters and I would butcher mine when they would dress out at about ten or twelve pounds. The largest one I processed dressed out at a little over 16 pounds but that was because I just didn't get around to processing him when I should have. My meat chickens got feed from seven in the morning until seven at night. I put Broiler Booster in their water from start to finish. Broiler Booster is a vitamin electrolyte supplement formulated for meat birds. It is available from Murray McMurray, and it goes a long way toward keeping your meat birds healthy. Personally, I don't think keeping meat birds alive by starving them and making them exercise is doing them any favors.

 

[Molpet]

Personally, I don't think keeping meat birds alive by starving them and making them exercise is doing them any favors.

Ha that's what I have to do to keep my weight down. My biggest sin is gluttony, just like a CX. Overweight runs in my family and similar health problems as CX. So far I have been able to avoid Rx for diabetes, high BP and everything else. Rest of my family would rather eat than try to live without Rx.

I have 7 CX right now that someone hatched from extra school eggs. They are with broodies and waddle after them.

 

[cassie]

Ha that's what I have to do to keep my weight down. My biggest sin is gluttony, just like a CX. Overweight runs in my family and similar health problems as CX. So far I have been able to avoid Rx for diabetes, high BP and everything else. Rest of my family would rather eat than try to live without Rx.

I have 7 CX right now that someone hatched from extra school eggs. They are with broodies and waddle after them.

My husband used to call them bowling balls on legs.