Do you get the same reaction when you tell *why* you have chickens?

[Intheswamp]

If you really want to get their attention ask them if they've ever heard about "fecal soup".

Ed

 

[ript]

Most people I would talk to about my chickens would already understand. I had a lot of "city" friends come out for a barbecue a few years back. When I told them ahead of time that it would be a pit bbq with one of my own hogs, there were mixed reactions. Most were interested in the process and some offered to help (not a lot of people have a clue about butchering anything), and I'd only say that one in ten were put out by the thought of eating something that wasn't store bought. It is quite the paradox.

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I was raised on rabbit, goat, chicken, turkey, geese that our families raised. My grandfather had goats and rabbits *mmm goatmilk*, we had birds and goats, my uncle had hogs. Who needed beef?

Your signature is also spot on.

 

[walkswithdog]

Given that nearly every case in the US that was salmonella or e coli related came from commercial meat and produce production - I'll eat my nasty free range poultry and eggs myself - thank you very much...

 

[pixie74943]

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Picture A is why I stopped eating meat.

Not excited about eating something that spent its like in a badly ventialyed room breathing 98% ammonia fumes, and probably spent a day or 2 dead and rotting on the floor before they decided to pick it up, lop off its head and pronounce it 'fresh and wholesome'.

Fish would be worse considering they eat/breathe inside water. and they have liquid feaces/urine, which would be pretty concerntrated in the water, so they would be breathing/osomosis-ing their own waste.


If I have a strong enough stomach for the butchering process, I would happily eat backyard meat chooks. At least they would be happily eating grass and breathing fresh air instead of breathing crap and eating crap.

*steps off soapbox*

I get strange enough looks saying I have the chickens for eggs. Can't imagine the looks if I say I plan on eating them.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

When I told my daughter that when I come up to NY I would bring her up some fresh eggs, I could actually hear her crinkling her nose over the phone! She said, "ewwwww I don't want any eggs out of your chickens butts"

Please understand that this is a 27 year old college educated mother of 3.

I almost died laughing when she said that. So I went into where did she think her eggs came from. "The store" Duh! It was a lost cause.

My 26 year old son calls and asks where I was at 8am one morning. "Out feeding the chickens" Silence on the other end of the phone.

"Cliff?" "Mom?" "What did you want, hun?" "Mom, did you say you were cooking chicken?" "No, I said I was out feeding the chickens." "Mom?" "What?" "My mother has chickens?!?!?" Then silence when I said yes.

"For what?" "Eating & eggs" "You're going to EAT your chickens?" "Ummm that's what you usually do with them." "But, but, YOU'RE from NY!" (What that has to do with it, I don't know.)

He hung up, never telling me what he called for. LOL

Laurie

 

[walkswithdog]

Okay Laurie - that's priceless... chuckle.

My own daughter doesn't eat "store bought meat" because of humane and feed issues. But when she comes to mom's house she happily eats chicken and eggs and turkey and venison and farm raised beef that we buy from neighbors.

It's taken almost three years for her in-laws to figure out the difference and to stop offering her market meat. But now that I've sent her home with free range eggs, they're beginning to get it...

The people at Laura's work have the whole free range egg thing down pat and I can't at this point, keep up with demand. Darn broodies.

I don't need more chicken raised chicks right now. Sigh.

 

[Javamama]

I think I'll start saying something along the lines of "did you hear about the *such and such* recall this week?" At least I know I don't have any of that meat in my freezer. Ewww.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Offer a side by side taste test, that says it all.

Steve in NC

 

[cassie]

Just for the record, if your Salmonella or e coli was home grown it wouldn't hit the news because there wouldn't be enough cases for the authorities to raise an alarm.

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[brandywine]

When someone says "I could never do (insert thing that you do)" what they are saying is one of two things:

1. There is something wrong/deficient/weak about ME
2. There is something wrong/deficient/brutal about YOU.

So you can ask them which one they mean. Make them answer.

When I tell the lady who serves as a volunteer court advocate for abused children that I could never do her job, I'm telling her that I am far too weak to do such a difficult thing. I think we both understand that.

When someone says she could never raise, kill, and eat her own meat, it could go either way -- might be a confession of squeamish weakness, or a declaration that you are a brute.

People who want to eat my chicken rather than industrial stuff but don't want to meet them while they are alive and running around typically fall into the former category. It's not for me to tell them to harden up, just as it's not for people in the latter category to decide that I am a brute and they are virtuous because they only eat denatured McNuggets.