Animal sanctuary

[ShaliniW1985]

supplemental lighting isn’t giving the birds hormones. Supplemental lighting isn’t terrible. The birds used in large scale egg production are meant to lay a lot for 2 years, then less so. As a business they get rid of the birds, who are likely turned into food or feed. It is a good thing to have production Facilities on a large scale to be able to provide eggs at a low cost. Eggs are a good source of many nutrients and many people cannot raise their own birds to get eggs and/or could not pay high prices for a dozen eggs.



yes. Why is this a negative?



chickens are livestock. Not classified as pets. however, even those that have chickens as livestock, also likely have a favorite one or two in the flock.



generally, when an animal is on your land, you get to choose what to do with it. Pamper as a pet, raise as livestock, 4-H project, etc. there is little risk of having to protect your animals from marauding bands of chicken butchers.

The sad thing about something like this is last year, while I was away, someone let their large dog into my yard. There aren’t many “wild” animals around here that could do anything like that. No wild dogs, no coyotes etc. just my one neighbor across the street with a large vicious dog. They always stared and complained about my birds for no reason. when I came back after a couple of hours of being away, there was an enormous hole in my sturdy fence, and blood and feathers scattered everywhere. I lost 7 ducks that day. The next day, I worked, and worked, to re-enforce my fences and make their coops sturdy, so that this could never happen again. So yes, surprisingly, people have tried to butcher my birds and purposefully let them loose or steal them. That one of the reasons that I’m hoping to move to a bigger farm, with a larger plot of land.

 

[Ruthster55]

The problems of dog overpopulation and raccoon overpopulation have severely impacted my chicken-keeping efforts in previous years.

A larger plot of land is always useful, but so is construction work and the willingness to do it.

 

[-Kiwi-]

Congratulations! I want to do the same thing later on. Good luck with your sanctuary!!!