Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[satay]

Most kindy chicks are egg laying hybrids, cos they buy the eggs from the hatcheries, so they will be the same variety that you buy as egg layers from your produce store.

I agree with rexy.

 

[darajosami]

I am wondering if there is anything wrong with hybrid or cross breeds? I a assuming nothing is wrong with them but what do you do with any chicks that you don't want due to not having the room or not wanting the boys?

 

[vehve]

I am wondering if there is anything wrong with hybrid or cross breeds? I a assuming nothing is wrong with them but what do you do with any chicks that you don't want due to not having the room or not wanting the boys?

My suggestion involves two carrots, some thyme, garlic, a couple onions, a nice sauvignon blanc, chardonnay or riesling, some salt and pepper, and a large pot.

 

[darajosami]

Oh dear I couldn't eat them

 

[vehve]

Oh dear I couldn't eat them

I was a bit squeamish about how it will feel to take the life of an animal you've raised from a chick, but it wasn't that bad. Knowing that the rooster had lived a good life, and that I was going to treat the meat with respect helped a lot. Once the chicken is dead, the processing isn't all that bad, but I know many people struggle with the first step of the process. Still, comparing homegrown roosters to supermarket chickens, I think the homegrown chicken pulls the long straw.

I think that if you're going to raise chickens, you need to be prepared to have to take it's life at some point. The chicken could get injured, and prolonging it's death for personal reasons is something that I feel is wrong to do. And if you hatch your own eggs, you're going to end up with 50% roosters. There is no magical place where all the roosters of the world live happily together enjoying a same sex polyamorous life. Someone who just rehomes all the roosters is in denial if they think that. Most of the roo's end up as someone's dinner. Might as well be yours. I know this sounds a bit harsh, but it's reality.

 

[vehve]

Fancy, I see you lurking there again, has the sun come out to play already?

 

[Fancychooklady]

We tried to go to town today but all the roads were closed. Lucky I had the camera with me.

Look at our winter wonderland.

 

[vehve]

Whoa, that's a beautiful view Fancy. Who would have thought that there can be snow in Australia? (This is probably a stupid place to make such a statement, I'm just labeling myself as clueless.)

 

[kat79]

Choose not to get them...in getting these it would stop me from getting actual breeds I want.

 

[kat79]

So sorry fancy