Confession time

[dsqard]

You are no more a monster than the person who fed his chickens KFC!

Good way to use the fish!

 

[debid]

It's funny, most everyone is OK with a pet fish being food but if you had had asked about shooting feral cats and feeding them to the chickens, I bet you'd get a different response.

I couldn't personally but no, I don't think you're horrible.

I'm pretty excited about having chickens to give the squash bugs, tomato worms, etc that I catch in the garden. And yes, I let the predators be -- even the wasps and spiders. But geez, I must have drowned about 2000 japanese beetles last summer and they were thrown straight on the compost pile because I didn't have any chickens to devour them.

 

[kelseygirl707]

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Probably because people Bond with Cats, where as I have never seen someone take a guppy out of the tank to pet, and let ride on their shoulder, LOL. They are pretty, but that is pretty much all they are good for, aside from food.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I use to have praying mantis I even bought the eggs and saw them hatch, but I think my ducks and chickens have wiped them out around here, to them nothing is sacred.

 

[kelseygirl707]

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Is Nothing sacred anymore

 

[Darlasmum]

Thanks everyone- I feel much better

 

[Pet Duck Boy]

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What states? Contrary to popular belief, mantids/mantises are not illegal to kill in the US and none are protected here. In other countries, some are protected, but few species are. With that said, there's no reasons to kill mantids since there are some rare ones. (Me being an avid keeper of them, I love finding wild ones!) And of course, they are great pest control. They do NO harm, only good.

 

[ErinG]

I'm glad so many people jumped to the defense of the mantis! They are a beautiful, intelligent insect. Now feeding one of them to a chicken - that is a waste.

 

[ranchhand]

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HEY! You talking about me?

I need to update that thread- it was a biscuit box and I used it to carry some homemade bread pieces and suet out to the birds on a really cold day.
(I don't eat chicken, but DH has to get a fix now and then.)

And they're HER chickens, not HIS,

And yep, I think that was a great use for the guppies, it's the ultimate recycling. I enjoy and appreciate the mantids as well, never harm them, though.

 

[Mervin]

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HEY! You talking about me?

I need to update that thread- it was a biscuit box and I used it to carry some homemade bread pieces and suet out to the birds on a really cold day.
(I don't eat chicken, but DH has to get a fix now and then.)

And they're HER chickens, not HIS,

And yep, I think that was a great use for the guppies, it's the ultimate recycling. I enjoy and appreciate the mantids as well, never harm them, though.

Ranchhand,

I was a little put off the first time I actually fed my flock left over chicken. Then I saw how much they seemed to enjoy it.

They were absolutely delighted when I gave them leftovers from the chicken & biscuits I made out of the nasty roo that terrorized my hens and pulled their feathers. Don't let 'em bring you down. Old farm motto..."What comes to the farm, stays on the farm. Things only leave at a profit."