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

[jennyg]

Since I got my incubator, I've been asked several times if I could hatch the eggs you buy in the store.  lol  On it's own, it's not an especially ridiculous question, but it amuses me to see the look on their faces when I explain most store-bought eggs come from hens who have never met a rooster.  I don't know what perplexes them more, the fact that the hens aren't around roosters, or the fact that there needs to be a rooster for the eggs to be fertile.

That actually worries me .. Do people think think their eggs come from a farm .... We will keep our rir roo, but most roo are killed hrs within hatching

 

[yinepu]

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actually.. most roos aren't killed within hours of hatching.. people always forget about the broiler industry.. there they prefer the roos (but don't toss any chicks unless they aren't fully hatched at the proper time)... and they hatch out millions of chicks per day in order to have birds ready for the table in 6 weeks...

having worked for the big commercial hatcheries it always amazes me that people completely forget about the broilers when they quote that .. since the majority of chickens produced in the US every day are for meat and not for egg production

 

[Ozarkguy]

Good story. Sometimes one just has to give up.

Ye my dad always told me not to argue with stupid.

 

[PrairieChickens]

Most roos hatched in hatcheries for egg farms are killed right after hatching.

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actually.. most roos aren't killed within hours of hatching.. people always forget about the broiler industry.. there they prefer the roos (but don't toss any chicks unless they aren't fully hatched at the proper time)... and they hatch out millions of chicks per day in order to have birds ready for the table in 6 weeks...

having worked for the big commercial hatcheries it always amazes me that people completely forget about the broilers when they quote that .. since the majority of chickens produced in the US every day are for meat and not for egg production
We're talking specifically about the chicks hatched for egg production. Those chicks are killed right after they hatch if they're males, because there is no profit to be made from raising a skinny, slow-growing breed when they can produce a fat cornish cross in one third of the time.

 

[chickenboy100]

Most roos hatched in hatcheries for egg farms are killed right after hatching.
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actually.. most roos aren't killed within hours of hatching.. people always forget about the broiler industry.. there they prefer the roos (but don't toss any chicks unless they aren't fully hatched at the proper time)... and they hatch out millions of chicks per day in order to have birds ready for the table in 6 weeks...

having worked for the big commercial hatcheries it always amazes me that people completely forget about the broilers when they quote that .. since the majority of chickens produced in the US every day are for meat and not for egg production
We're talking specifically about the chicks hatched for egg production. Those chicks are killed right after they hatch if they're males, because there is no profit to be made from raising a skinny, slow-growing breed when they can produce a fat cornish cross in one third of the time.
Now, how sure are you of that? Have you personally seen it, or watched a video of maybe one or two companies who do that?
Not trying to be rude.

 

[PrairieChickens]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling

It's not really a secret that the egg industry culls most of the male chicks they hatch within hours of hatching, just like battery cages and the reality of "cage free" hens are all public knowledge for anyone who looks it up. Even if it wasn't public knowledge, it doesn't take much deductive reasoning to realize that profit-based corporate entities with the modern mindset of "as much as we can as fast as we can for as cheap as we can" would have no use for male egg laying strains that cannot compete commercially with the cornish cross. It's all about the economics--they simply WON'T do anything if it's not for maximum profit, and raising ANYTHING other than cornish cross these days just isn't done commercially. Only small-scale specialty companies bother with raising heritage birds for meat, and they are a tiny, tiny exception to the rule.

 

[chickenboy100]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling

It's not really a secret that the egg industry culls most of the male chicks they hatch within hours of hatching, just like battery cages and the reality of "cage free" hens are all public knowledge for anyone who looks it up. Even if it wasn't public knowledge, it doesn't take much deductive reasoning to realize that profit-based corporate entities with the modern mindset of "as much as we can as fast as we can for as cheap as we can" would have no use for male egg laying strains that cannot compete commercially with the cornish cross. It's all about the economics--they simply WON'T do anything if it's not for maximum profit, and raising ANYTHING other than cornish cross these days just isn't done commercially. Only small-scale specialty companies bother with raising heritage birds for meat, and they are a tiny, tiny exception to the rule.

Well, why is it so wrong to kill them? Why would you keep birds who no one wants, and in order for them to not be killed, what could you do? That is millions of flighty, white leghorn roosters no one wants, where would they go??

 

[Crickett]

I can see your point, and I understand the concept and the economics, but I don't have to like it or abide by it. That's another reason I have my own chickens. And yes, I will be processing my extra roos this fall, but I know they have had a good chicken life while with me!

 

[chickenboy100]

I can see your point, and I understand the concept and the economics, but I don't have to like it or abide by it. That's another reason I have my own chickens. And yes, I will be processing my extra roos this fall, but I know they have had a good chicken life while with me!

Yeah, I don;t like killing the babies, but if they grow, they won't have a good chicken life when no one wants them, they'd either be put in a barn with a million others, or kicked out in the wild to try to fend for themselves, and so many of those chicks would starve/kill eachother.

 

[LavLady]

Pass the hat, I have a project! We buy a thousand WL roos, raise them to 5-6 months and air drop them to the middle of Portland Oregon. There will be crowing, fighting, pooping roosters everywhere. See h