Do you eat the ones you love?

[bluey]

Yes I would...

...and if I can't eat the one I love, I'd eat the one I'm with!!!

 

[SterlingAcres]

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[PotterWatch]

I plan on eating ours. I bought dual-purpose birds for a reason. Any roos will be processed early on and I plan on replacing my layers every two years and making stew out of the culled ones.

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Same here! I can barely eat chicken now, but that is just me. I have nothing against people who do. Everyone has chickens for a different reason and that is totally cool. Mine are pets and they give back to me by giving me eggs (hopefully soon!).

 

[flakey chick]

I have heard a number of people here talk about how they thought they could never eat one of their own, until that nasty roo attacked their child/grandchild. Then into the stewpot it goes without hesitation.

 

[amazondoc]

I was vegetarian for 23 years, and for the last several years I have eaten only seafood. No bird need fear the frying pan at my house!

OTOH, every veggie who keeps chickens does need to keep in mind that we are STILL responsible for the deaths of at least one roo for every hen we keep, since the hatching ratio is still 50:50 .

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

We eat our chickens, we will cull out the older hens at between 1-2+ years old and always have new chickens in the wings. We don't get attached to them like alot of you folks, none have names, and they are not pets, but we do enjoy raising our own chickens for eggs and meat. Roosters usually go to the pot at about 6-8 months.

 

[dangerouschicken]

We live on a farm. Our chickens are not pets. I still enjoy them, name them, gather their eggs, scratch their backs, protect them, etc. But if things go awry, they become dinner. We have been eating our roos and meat birds all summer so far, and we will keep eating them. They are far better meat than factory farmed. And our chickens have had good lives!

I was a vegetarian for 8 years, but it wasn't healthy for me. I needed more protein. SOOOooooo Yes, of course we eat them!

 

[PotterWatch]

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That, I think, is the difference. There are many people on here who regard their chickens as pets and therefore have a hard time understanding how a person could eat their pet. But for those of us who don't regard our birds as pets, eating them is not an issue. I do name my birds, but I look at them as livestock, not pets and therefore wouldn't mind at all eating them. I will keep my layers until it makes more economic sense to replace them with fresh layers and put more food on my table.

 

[dangerouschicken]

That said it right there!