Awwww!!! This is so sad!!!!

[gumpsgirl]

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Tators isn't the word for it! Maybe something like a softball??? It was just down right cruel. No compassion what-so-ever.

I will be hatching my own chicks next time around!

 

[Barnyard]

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Tators isn't the word for it! Maybe something like a softball??? It was just down right cruel. No compassion what-so-ever.

I will be hatching my own chicks next time around!

That is why I hatch my own also. I know how my babies are treated and trust me it ain't like that.

 

[Run-A-Muck Ranch]

Kind of like on Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe (by the way I love that show). He went to a hatchery and tried to do the vent sexing. The little babies were flipped and flopped and would have there vents scraped againist old metal coffee cans used to hold the poop...
The little birds went through so much in just a short time.

I didn't realize they give shots right through the shells though until watching this video...
Question about that...Is that the same thing as when helping hatch when some brake the end of the egg by the air sack.
I know in the video it was for the shot, but is it kind of the same general idea with the air sack braking.?.?.?

 

[cjeanean]

I thought it was sad because of how commericalized it was....they must have a large majority survive, so those little chicks have to be tougher than a lot of people give them credit for, but at the same time I don't think that's how God wanted it to be. I feel bad for them because they're cute and fuzzy and I love baby everythings, but at the same time I know that their purpose is for food, one way or another. I just don't think it's fair that people utilize their food production capabilities without giving a crap about the life God gave the creature. Same problem I have with abortion (only more so)....but that's a different horror. Another question: I watched a vid showing a slaughterhouse slitting chicken throats, and I actually thought it was pretty humane. I know chickens can run around without heads at times, so a lot of it is reflex and such, but what is considered a humane way of dispatching a meat animal????

 

[puckbunny87]

. Another question: I watched a vid showing a slaughterhouse slitting chicken throats, and I actually thought it was pretty humane. I know chickens can run around without heads at times, so a lot of it is reflex and such, but what is considered a humane way of dispatching a meat animal????

Ick... it's "humane" as long as all of the chickens manage to get their throats slit. What is not, is the ones that flap/fly up and miss the blade... they get boiled alive in the next step. Poor chickens.

That video made me kind of sick.... poor little babies. All the conveyor belts, and all the babies being dumped and flipped and dropped... can you just imagine what they're thinking?

Another question... that sexing method, with the wing feathers... anyone ever tried that?​

 

[peeps7]

I almost cried when I was watching that.