Any of you eat your chickens?

[ScoobyRoo]

Around here, it is a reality that no one wants roos and we cant have excess roos. We have processed 7 so far and I did Okay. However, one of my DD refuses to eat any animals we raise. Even if it has 'chicken stock' in the recipe.

 

[chicksrcool]

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That has rang true for me too! I get nauseated thinking of eating chicken. I told my family I have become a "fishatarian"!

 

[JakRat]

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That has rang true for me too! I get nauseated thinking of eating chicken. I told my family I have become a "fishatarian"!

ditto I still eat chicken but I feel sad. As much as I didnt want to get attached to them I am... I had to have someone come and pick up my disabled rooster to process him for themselves and I am still sad about that... that was in JUNE!!!

 

[onthespot]

I ate one so far. He flogged me one time too many.

 

[silkiechicken]

I eat them... feels normal to me though, since I grew up knowing where my food came from.

 

[Megs]

so far havent eaten any of my own, but ive only had em since spring

next year if/when i have extra roos i will give them to my dad, he will process/eat them, i wouldnt have it in me to kill them myself (though my bf could do it, he probably would rather not). IF i can find a local person to do the butcher/plucking i might do some meaties next year, but its hard to find someone in my area (they have closed almost ALL of the processing places for any type of animal where i live, we installed our own huge meat cooler this year for our small herd of cattle/sheep). go figure i can watch the whole process of dismembering a huge cow but cant bring myself to off my roosters

 

[jaku]

The first couple were kinda weird, but I got over it quickly.

 

[paridisefarm2009]

Hello at first I didnt think I would be able to do It , The Killing then processing , But after a lot of research and practice , It is easy , the only dissipointment is that it really isnt a lot of meat ,I have done about 7 of my roosters But I learned there is a brooder chicken specifically for meat in about 2 months time this is what they are for , I feel it is the circle of life . You just have to get the routeine down , At first I tryed the choping off the head and soon learned it was easyer to shoot first then when dead , do what I need to do. my husband wouldnt help me a bit he ran away like a baby , My son did hold the net once , when you clean them I learned some stuff from utube videos and other websites on step by step , it really isnt that bad .It is a bit time consuming so if your planning on supper start early

Good Luck and do your research I learned a lot form this place every one is Great !

 

[allmypeeps]

I'd like to raise my own food. But for now I think I will just search for local farm raised birds and buy them from someone else who spent the time raising and processing the natural way...and I do NOT want to do as in China and pick out my own live bird...LOL

I don't want to look anything in the eye before I eat it!

 

[hildymarie]

I look at it as, they were raised to be eaten. If we did not buy these chicks, someone else would have and may not have give them as good a life as we have. They are meat chickens, they would not do well to get bigger and as I am telling my self when we are about to send Tilly and Curly Pig to freezer camp, we are sparing them a cold winter and the discomfort of old age. We loved them, we took good care of them, we made sure they had all the comforts they could want.This is what we raised them for and we would be eating chicken and pork from somewhere, why not meat we are sure is as good and healthy as we can. You have to keep it in perspective. Remember that while you are raising it and it wont be so hard when the time comes. I hate buying store chickens and finding bruising and broken legs or wings and knowing from the condition of the carcasse that this happened while it was alive and felt pain and suffered before and possibly during the process. We know we made sure our animals suffered as little as possible and were handled humanely and with respect.
And really, once they are dead and plucked or skinned, they are food. Period.