awful video of what they do with roosters ****WARNING GRAPHIC****

[steffpeck]

That is really sad to watch!! Poor babies!!

 

[Chickaroo!]

I've seen some posts on culling chicks by putting them in the freezer. Is that what basically happens if someone does that? They suffocate?

 

[skennedy]

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Order from small hatcheries. We care for ALL our chicks, even the ones we don't sell!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

It's a sad fact that there are more roos than people want. It is to bad that we can't euthanize large batches of them in a way that they don't suffer. It doesn't matter what animal it is the realities are there when it comes to the demand of one sex (usually female) over the other and when it comes to what to do with the extras not everyone can be pleased. All we can do as individuals is raise our own when/where ever possible and take care of them in a humane way.

 

[MissPrissy]

This is a small video from an entire culinary series done by Jamie Oliver in the UK. There is more to the series than this video. There is also the commerical processing of broilers and how chicken ends up in the grocers meat case and eventually on the dinner table. Remember this is in the UK where things may or may not be done differently than here in the US.

I hate to see things taken completely out of context. This was a very well done series. He was very responsible in this series. He also stated that as a professional chef and an eater of chicken it was his responsibility to know and learn how the chickens were produced for the table and he did not take any part of it lightly.

As someone who has raised broilers and processed them for my own dinner table I have a huge respect for him and his efforts to bring people to a higher awareness of the sources of their food.

This video clip is the reality of what happens to unwanted male chicks. Those of us (the collective 'us') that only order pullets from a hatchery have a hand in this. Something has to be done with the male chicks. They cannot humainly live together without violent outcomes. They can't spend their life in cages. In a more perfect world there may be a more perfect way to deal with male chicks but this world isn't perfect and most people won't even entertain the idea of raising male chicks for their own table.

Perhaps being aware of what the reality is more people who do eat chicken will step up to the plate and utilize those chicks for their own family table.

 

[greggy]

I think the animals were dispatched humanely, nothing was wasted, and none of them suffered. We want our meat and eggs as cheap as possible. Feeding the males would only increase the price YOU pay for eggs at the store.

 

[fullhouse]

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How do people know who is big, small, or "humane"? With the Internet it all looks the same.

 

[mradam]

I don't see how anyone can say they didn't suffer. Likely they lack the mental ability to understand they are dying, but you can't say they experience no stress or fear during this. And sadly, this probably is the more humane of the methods used by the industry.

And to everyone here raising their own chickens, I say God Bless You! You are providing a life for them that is far greater than what they would have had in a battery cage.

---getting off my soapbox now.

(I think I'm gonna go out and give my chicks another treat now.)

Adam

 

[greggy]

How can you say that they do suffer? What is your evidence? The visual evidence shows that they pass out, or go to sleep. Not suffering at all! Defining what is humane is not difficult. Unwanted dogs and cats are dispatched in this manner by humane societies all over this country every day. Many people are consantly trying now-a-days to transfer their human emothions, and inteligence to the animal world where they don't apply. We waste more thought, and emotion on how a chicken is killed than we do for each other, and that is what it sounds like on my soap box!

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

This is just sick. Honestly, I wish that I had never even opened this post and watched that video. It is horrible, and to say that it is humane, is just proposturous. They said it takes 1-2 miniutes for the chicks to die. How is that humane?