Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[7 Biddies]

I recently butchered some meat birds for the first time ever. I want to provide food for my table and have eggs from my hens and veggies from the garden and wanted to also provide meat. (I can't afford to raise and butcher red meat so opted for chickens).

My BYC friends give me encouragement and praise for doing it. But family members make me feel mean and terrible. They say things like, "Oh, how could you do something like that! I could never kill something I named and raised from a baby, that's gross" Sometimes I wonder if we are really related.

If your relatives buy meat from the typical grocery store, they're "meaner" to animals than you. By paying the industrial meat industries to do the "dirty work" for them, they enable them to continue on with their foul, cruel practices, not to mention flooding the market with toxic food. Just because they don't do "the deed" themselves, doesn't mean they're innocent. If everyone raised their own meat animals, these nasty businesses would no longer exist and meat animals would have a better life.

Refer back to my earlier post on the topic on page 831. Let them mull *that* over for a while. 7Biddies

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Oh, yeah, and the fools who are building down the street asked, "Are there any snakes up here?". Lady, we're in the mountains in a county that's 70% national forest, and creeks and streams everywhere you look. No, there're no snakes. <eyeroll>

Where my Aunt lives in southern Indiana they have 3 different poisonous snakes, the timber rattler (the most deadly in North America my understanding) the water moccasin (just in the south western part of our state) and then the lesser of the poisonous snakes that live here is the copper head, it can take several hours to kill someone from a copper head bite, there was a boy who lived in the next town over from my aunt, and he was bit by a copper head, mom and boyfriend didn't know what kind of snake the kid went to them when bit and when they looked it was gone. Parents took him to the nearest hospital, in my Aunt's town. They where told "there are no poisonous snakes in Indiana" the bite was cleaned with anti-septic and bandaged. In the middle of the night the boy woke up and his legs where paralyzed, he drug himself to the mom and boyfriends bedroom door and knocked and they woke up and called the pediatrician, and he told them to meet him back at that same hospital and there he gave the boy anti-veniremen. The poor kid will always have nerve damage now because of the hospital's stupidity. The hospital was struggling before financially and it was forced to close because no one would dare go there......

Oh, yeah, and the fools who are building down the street asked, "Are there any snakes up here?". Lady, we're in the mountains in a county that's 70% national forest, and creeks and streams everywhere you look. No, there're no snakes. <eyeroll>

Where my Aunt lives in southern Indiana they have 3 different poisonous snakes, the timber rattler (the most deadly in North America my understanding) the water moccasin (just in the south western part of our state) and then the lesser of the poisonous snakes that live here is the copper head, it can take several hours to kill someone from a copper head bite, there was a boy who lived in the next town over from my aunt, and he was bit by a copper head, mom and boyfriend didn't know what kind of snake the kid went to them when bit and when they looked it was gone. Parents took him to the nearest hospital, in my Aunt's town. They where told "there are no poisonous snakes in Indiana" the bite was cleaned with anti-septic and bandaged. In the middle of the night the boy woke up and his legs where paralyzed, he drug himself to the mom and boyfriends bedroom door and knocked and they woke up and called the pediatrician, and he told them to meet him back at that same hospital and there he gave the boy anti-veniremen. The poor kid will always have nerve damage now because of the hospital's stupidity. The hospital was struggling before financially and it was forced to close because no one would dare go there......

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Actually, the most deadly venomous snake in the US is the coral snake, which is an elapid, a member of the cobra family. However, it generally takes serious effort to manage to get bitten by one. Like picking it up and fooling with it or choosing to run around barefoot. One reason cowboy boots had such a high top was because of snattlerakes. I think Mojaves and Diamondbacks are supposed to be the most deadly rattlesnakes; but all of them are very bad news.

Fortunately, most of the people who die of snake bite die from deliberately handling them, either in religious services or while trying to kill them.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Same. The only thing idL is the dairy/veal (chicken companies 2) industry at least this one company i saw in a video. I enjoy eating meat as the next person but the big chicken industrys are pretty bad.

You are aware that many of the films set in chicken plants and stock plants involve workers led into doing awful, disgusting, and cruel things by "animal advocates" who get jobs there. I watched one film that I knew was fraudulent because no one ever walks down battery cages yelling and waving things - OR while not wearing biosecurity gear. The film repeatedly showed people in jeans, street clothes and billed caps walking up and down the rows and waving and yelling at the caged Leghorns. I suspect if management had seen that everyone would have been out on their rear in about thirty seconds.

I'll say something else, too. Most Americans have a tradition of treating animals humanely; the same holds for most Muslims who see it as a religious duty. On the other hand, some Asian and Latin American nations are not known for kindness to animals - including people. So I am always leery of buying products from an outfit that has a largely immigrant work staff, unless it is a halal shop. There is a halal shop off the I-880 in Oakland where they will slaughter poultry while you wait. This helps assure that the birds have their veins severed in such a way that they lose consciousness and die very quickly.

 

[Peep_Show]

I recently butchered some meat birds for the first time ever. I want to provide food for my table and have eggs from my hens and veggies from the garden and wanted to also provide meat. (I can't afford to raise and butcher red meat so opted for chickens).

My BYC friends give me encouragement and praise for doing it. But family members make me feel mean and terrible. They say things like, "Oh, how could you do something like that! I could never kill something I named and raised from a baby, that's gross" Sometimes I wonder if we are really related.

I had kind of the same reaction from family members UNTIL I had them over for the best chicken dinner they ever ate. Homegrown is SO superior over store-bought meat that it's a no brainer once you get it.... Kind of like the difference with fresh vs. store eggs.

 

[cassie]

You are aware that many of the films set in chicken plants and stock plants involve workers led into doing awful, disgusting, and cruel things by "animal advocates" who get jobs there. I watched one film that I knew was fraudulent because no one ever walks down battery cages yelling and waving things - OR while not wearing biosecurity gear. The film repeatedly showed people in jeans, street clothes and billed caps walking up and down the rows and waving and yelling at the caged Leghorns. I suspect if management had seen that everyone would have been out on their rear in about thirty seconds.

Shortly before I left California some "animal advocates" did a "documentary" on a large egg farm near me showing all sorts of alleged cruelty and mistreatment of the hens. The whole thing was staged and last I heard the egg farm was taking them to court for defamation..

 

[Mah1Mah1]

Down here in Australia, on the east coast where I live we only really have pythons and ton's of red belly black's. Annoying in summer because they are attracted to water. During summer this year I practically sat on one that was coiled in the grass beside my pond while I was fishing for frogs. I only noticed it while it was trying to get away from me. Thats why I never go walking alone with snakes around.

 

[cmchickens]

I highly recommend this blog. To keep it on topic- oh look a dog with a beak! http://thedogsnobs.com/2013/06/13/***-wednesday-12/

Thanks for this, I just spent the last hour reading the blog, and will probably keep reading for a couple more. Very entertaining, Reminds me of a blog I used to read called Fugly Horse of the Day. Same concept, just about horses. Miss that blog.

I recently butchered some meat birds for the first time ever. I want to provide food for my table and have eggs from my hens and veggies from the garden and wanted to also provide meat. (I can't afford to raise and butcher red meat so opted for chickens).

My BYC friends give me encouragement and praise for doing it. But family members make me feel mean and terrible. They say things like, "Oh, how could you do something like that! I could never kill something I named and raised from a baby, that's gross" Sometimes I wonder if we are really related.

Well done! My family was also shocked when I started raising meat birds. Prior to raising my own birds, I had been a vegetarian for 5 years. I think they were taking bets on wether or not I would go through with killing them or not. Guess what? I did it! I love my homegrown chicken. So yummy. And I know exactly how it was raised and how it died.

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This is full of ignorance, sad, pathetic, ignorance. The countless references to steroids, hormones, and genetically modified chickens gave me a headache.

I've seen this floating around Facebook. Drives me absolutely insane to read the comments. Kudos to the few people who try to correct the misinformation, but I don't have the patience for it. I've raised Cornish X. They can be wonderful and healthy birds.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Shortly before I left California some "animal advocates" did a "documentary" on a large egg farm near me showing all sorts of alleged cruelty and mistreatment of the hens. The whole thing was staged and last I heard the egg farm was taking them to court for defamation..

Good for them. I hope they win, and I hope they get millions in damages.

I am so tired of animal advocates. They are harassing a woman who lives a mile or two from our Nevada place because her horses stand in horse flops by the feed trough every night, starting at about 4PM, and stay there until she gets home and feeds them. They insist she needs to clean up every flop out of if falls out of Dobbin's rump. And she's mean because she keeps her horses walking when they make horse flops while being ridden.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Down here in Australia, on the east coast where I live we only really have pythons and ton's of red belly black's. Annoying in summer because they are attracted to water. During summer this year I practically sat on one that was coiled in the grass beside my pond while I was fishing for frogs. I only noticed it while it was trying to get away from me. Thats why I never go walking alone with snakes around.

Aren't red belly blacks an elapid (cobra relative)?

I was told years ago by someone in zoology that Australia is the only continent where most of the snakes are apparently venomous and deadly, as opposed to being generally harmless colubrids (ignore the not harmless at all boomslang in that grouping!) and other harmless species.

I was always amused by folks who insisted that snakes were "venomous, not poisonous." Of course, I used to live in Oregon where we have garter snakes that retain enough newt venom in their livers to poison foxes, crows, and other small predators that eat them. As a kid we knew that rattlesnakes were bad if they bit you, and you didn't let little tiny dogs eat garter snakes near creeks. Of course, the ideal was to teach the fool dog to leave all snakes strictly alone.

 

[Mah1Mah1]

Aren't red belly blacks an elapid (cobra relative)?

I was told years ago by someone in zoology that Australia is the only continent where most of the snakes are apparently venomous and deadly, as opposed to being generally harmless colubrids (ignore the not harmless at all boomslang in that grouping!) and other harmless species.

I was always amused by folks who insisted that snakes were "venomous, not poisonous." Of course, I used to live in Oregon where we have garter snakes that retain enough newt venom in their livers to poison foxes, crows, and other small predators that eat them. As a kid we knew that rattlesnakes were bad if they bit you, and you didn't let little tiny dogs eat garter snakes near creeks. Of course, the ideal was to teach the fool dog to leave all snakes strictly alone.

Yes red bellys are elapids, and we do have a ton of dangerous snakes (tiger, inland taipan) but where I live we don't really have that many. Red bellies are only dangerous if you don't get to hospital quick enough. They are pretty clumsy when they bite so they kinda hang on and chew O_O. We also have brown snakes which are pretty bad too. My friend lost a terrier to a red belly though, they are pretty deadly to dogs .