I quarantined him because he still might have given something to my laying hens, a risk I was not willing to take. Why would I put him in with my girls, just to take him back out in a few days, risking my girls getting sick? And who says he was stressed? You are putting human emotions into an animal, he was perfectly content in his cage, in my garage, for the few days I had him until he was butchered. Yes, your values are clearly different than mine. I got this rooster to butcher, why would I treat him as a pet?Why quarantine him if you weren’t keeping him? You already said that’s why you got him. Your “not caring” about him being stressed is not “respect” unless you are using a definition that is different from everyone else’s.
You’re right, I don’t withhold feed from my meat animals. Their comfort is worth a little bit of extra effort on my part, if I didn’t care about that I might as well buy chicken from the store.
My values are clearly different from yours.