Eastern Tennessee Thread

[tennesseeckn]

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I won't judge!! Especially since you are providing a nice home for my one-eyed, non-laying, Forrest-Gump girl.

 

[tennesseeckn]

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If I hear back from Wisner maybe you could attend. It'll be like a social.

I am soooo going to be there to take pictures of this little meeting.

And what LOVELY pictures those would be, too. All snotty and tear soaked...

 

[tennesseeckn]

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Right on! Sisters UNITE!!!

 

[NellaBean]

Everywhere I look, she is up to no good. Sitting on the rabbit cages, perched on the dog crate, tripping me going up the steps. Everywhere I look...........up to no good!

I actually had to pick her up and move her the other day, just to get where I was going. Little hooligan!

 

[bairo]

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With you and (what) 30 broody hens at any given moment? No I dont blame him...I would be 5 states away

 

[bairo]

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Those have a name around here.. "Chicken Soup"

 

[grawg]

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I am soooo going to be there to take pictures of this little meeting.

And what LOVELY pictures those would be, too. All snotty and tear soaked...

Oh I forgot to mention...I've been know to nearly pass out at the sight of blood, so I probably wouldn't make it into the pictures

 

[tnchickenut]

Geez! I'm trying to catch up and you all are adding pages as I go!! I would have never got to the end if I didn't just start skimming....

I once had a problem culling a duck... I took it to my vet who did me the favor of doing it like a dog or cat. Other than that, I put them down myself. I find it is harder to put a animal down for a injury or disfigurment than for anything else. But fact of the matter is, they wouldn't have a quality life and eventually would be taken by preditors or starve or get trampled ect.


There is 2 problems at work here (accross the board)
1. people put human attributes to animals... and let me clearify that I'm not saying they are not worthy of respect
2. people are out of touch of where their food comes from


I'm not saying butchering is my favorite thing (because it's far from it) but I know that I eat a chicken in every meal (I'm a chicken nut duh). It can be my chicken that I knew had a nice day in the grass until the last moment, or it can be a chicken who lived in inches of filth in a poorly ventilated chicken house, crammed with thousands of others... including the dead... and then picked up and literally slammed and thrown into cages where their legs and wings get broken (you seen it when you eat KFC and the bone was broke and the meat stained red.... that was when they were alive) and then put on a truck where even more sufficate from the lack of air just from the pure number of chickens... then taken to the conveyor belt I previously mentioned.

You want motivation to eat your own and feeding useless roos not enough? Watch a factory farm video.



As for dead animals... if they JUST died, what's the problem? If they are gross already, then wear gloves. Personally, I'm the type to pick it up and inspect it. Found a frog dead at work under the cardboard. I work in a factor with nasty chemicals and I wanted to see if the chemicals did it or if he got stomped or what. Plus I wanted to see what kind of frog it was (I am a frog nut too) Point is, I picked the dead frog up and held it to me face trying to investigate. LOL!

 

[tennesseeckn]

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OK, I need you to create an audio track of all the reasons I am going Sunday so I can play it on an MP3 player the entire time I'm there. You seem to know just what to say...

In my defense, I usually don't humanize my birds. (I definitely can be accused of doing that with my dog) But with them it's the fact that they are NOT human that gets in my way. They are innocent, defenseless animals that I am responsible for keeping safe. I know that they have a way more comfortable life and maybe even death because of my existence but I loose sight of that sometimes under the weight of my responsibility.

Wow. We just took a serious turn...

On a lighter note, I just got in contact with someone who is working on Orps and needs... yep... a black cockerel! And what do you know! I have some!! She has been breeding Ameraucanas for a while and would be willing to trade me some pullets. WOOT! I guess it's not all bad that I missed the show since one of my plans for that day was to sell my two lonely Ameraucana boys. I am just giddy!

But, Bairo... That means that you're not the only one that broke the two breed rule, now...

 

[tennesseeckn]

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And what LOVELY pictures those would be, too. All snotty and tear soaked...

Oh I forgot to mention...I've been know to nearly pass out at the sight of blood, so I probably wouldn't make it into the pictures

I'll do my best to revive you between hiccupy sobs!