Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

[SilkiesInSuburb]

Oh my gosh, I can't be the only one who has been asked this.
One of your friends comes along and asks,

So, do you eat your chickens when they get old?
...

DO I LOOK LIKE A CANNIBAL DO I LOOK EVIL WOULD EAT YOU DOG WOULD YOU EAT YOUR LITTLE COUSIN WHY WOULD I EAT MY PET WHEN I HAVE WOOLWORTHS AROUND THE CORNER WHY WOULD I WANT TO EAT THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE????

No, I don't eat 'em...

You aren't the only one! People would ask me if I was gonna eat my recently sexed THIRD cockerel,obviously I wasn't but I was probably gonna have to give him away. Turns out he never crowed so i didnt have to!

 

[lazy gardener]

And people give me odd looks when I tell them I eat my old spent birds or my cockrels. IMO, better to eat the bird I know, than the bird I don't know.

 

[ShrekDawg]

And people give me odd looks when I tell them I eat my old spent birds or my cockrels.  IMO, better to eat the bird I know, than the bird I don't know.

That is true. At least you know it's treated well and in sanitary and humane living conditions unlike most factory farms :/

 

[LavvyTaffy]

That is true. At least you know it's treated well and in sanitary and humane living conditions unlike most factory farms :/

yup

 

[allosaurusrock]

I'm somewhere in between- I keep hens as pets, but eat cockerels and meatbirds.

 

[bobbi-j]

And people give me odd looks when I tell them I eat my old spent birds or my cockrels.  IMO, better to eat the bird I know, than the bird I don't know.

Exactly! I feel as though my birds have a pretty good life, too, up until that one bad day...

 

[Aziara]

Exactly! I feel as though my birds have a pretty good life, too, up until that one bad day...

Yeah, this is my philosophy too, although there will always be that special hen who gets to live out her life in retirement

I can certainly understand if you only have a few hens how you could get really attached to all of them and can't bear to butcher them when they stop laying. At that point, they've been upgraded from 'livestock' to 'pet'. And then the thought of eating them is just...

I did know this one woman who raised cattle. She refused to eat any of them, so the calves were sold to the sale barn every year, and then she'd use the money to go buy meat at winn-dixie. So.....Someone else's cow is good to eat, but your own isn't????
It wasn't that they were raised as pets, they were wild and scared of humans.
Honestly, with a cow, you're so far removed from the butchery process. Drop it off at the butcher, return a day or so later and pick up the meat wrapped in white paper. Which is why I don't get why she wouldn't eat them.

 

[LavvyTaffy]

Until we're walking past the chick bins and see this darling little cutie that'll just die of loneliness if we don't bring it home. Feeling so sorry for it, and being such nice people, we obviously just ask the employee to box it up, and oh yeah that one too please...

Well, that's what we tell the OH anyway when they ask why on earth we brought home MORE chickens.

YES! But Banty, it's not all emotion...logic too. We need more burdz.

I got feed at TSC today and they just got in brand new chicks!, and there was this little ISA brown who looked at me. So, I closed my eyes and said "Too many burdz, too many burdz, too many burdz" and walked away!

 

[adstowe]

I went to TSC yesterday to buy chicken food... and left with 6 chicks

. I just gave a freind of mine 2 pullets a couple of weeks ago because I "had more than I needed". LOL

 

[ChickenMama6RIR]

I went to TSC yesterday to buy chicken food... and left with 6 chicks  . I just gave a freind of mine 2 pullets a couple of weeks ago because I "had more than I needed". LOL

Lol!!! Pics please!