Do you eat the ones you love?

[Pecky]

Considering this is a chicken lovers website, I am curious of how many of you actually eat the chickens you raise.

Has raising chickens actually made any of you become vegetarians?

 

[chicknmania]

NO, I can't even stand to kill them if they are sick. We eat chicken, just not ours. Eggs don't count. When we eat chicken we call it dinosaur at our house.

 

[hwerner]

We eat them. However, we don't eat the hens. We feel that they do us a wonderful favor by giving us delicious eggs everyday. We breed for roos for meals when they are raised though. I wouldn't even consider eating my hens, when we lose one to age they are buried in what my children call the chicken plot.

 

[MissPrissy]

We eat them.

 

[Redfeathers]

We eat the extra roos. Haven't had a hen get old yet, but I think all of my girls are going to die of old age and be placed in a corner of the garden when it's time.

 

[MTtroutwithwings]

Hi Pecky!

Careful! This is a very touchy subject that a lot of us vegheads have had to tread lightly. I was already there long before joining BYC but it does make you wonder about others!

 

[theJH]

We are vegheads here in my house. We eat our eggs but could not emagine killing and eating one of our pets and our chickens are our pets.

 

[Pecky]

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Haha, yah. I was just curious. xD I couldn't think of killing my babies.

 

[SterlingAcres]

We'll be eating all our roos. I'm only keeping 2.

 

[AussieSharon]

I imagine my Welsummer girls will die of old age but the extra roos, CornishX, ducks and geese are eaten. Other than some buffalo meat and pork ribs I haven't bought meat at the grocery in about 3 months.