eating your pet open discussion

[Oliver Douglas]

Here, here! Animal lovers come in all shapes and sizes. We had a rabbit named Cloud, used to climb up on the couch and watch television with us. He broke his leg, and we spent about $800 for his medical bills....he was adopted for free about six weeks old when we went to visit my dad, long deceased, in Chico. My daughter attended Chico State and he was her companion. He later needed a saline drip, which my wife dealt with. When he passed, there were tears all around. Goodbye, Cloud. You were a good rabbit.

 

[sophiaw00]

Aw I'm sorry about Cloud, @Oliver Douglas . I used to breed rabbits with my grandpa when I was younger. We would sit down and we would teach me about genetics and then I could help him pick out which rabbits to breed together (although I usually picked the cutest ones and didn't care about the traits then). A few years ago, my mom let me get my own rabbits and I got 2 "girls". I thought they were both female because they never bred until they were two years old. Sadie ended up having 5 babies. They all died before 3 weeks old except 1. I don't think Sadie could produce enough milk for them. I took the surviving baby inside and bottle fed her. I named her Skye and she was my baby. She loved to cuddle and follow me around. I began training her to be a therapy rabbit (yes, thats a thing). A week before her first visit to the nursing home, she passed away. I still have no clue why. I will love and miss her always. The picture is Skye at 3 weeks old.

 

[Blooie]

Thank you! My mom raised us to be open minded but also state our opinions. I am so grateful that I'm not shy about making myself heard (even thought some of my friends get a bit annoyed). I try to think about all sides of an argument (and research it thoroughly) before going one way or another. When I decided to raise chickens, I didn't know that the argument on whether to eat "pet" chickens or not was such a big controversy until I began my research, and this thread just proves that it's something that most backyard chicken owners think about going into it and must decide. My mom again gets all the credit for me being compassionate - she gave me the gene!

Give yourself some of the credit too. I've learned, in my years as a parent, grandparent, and now great-grandparent that you can do the best you can but if your kids aren't receptive, it all falls on deaf ears. We can be free and honest with our affection and our attention, and we can try to set a good example and teach our kids right from wrong. But in the end they make their choices and what they do with what we've tried to teach them is up to them. So hooray for your mom AND you!

 

[Cacique500]

We won't eat ours since they're pets.

My neighbors chickens however...are fair game

 

[pingu1]

None of this would be an issue if chickens weren't deliscious.


We can't eat our pets, but we can kidnap and fry their embryonic children and that's not taboo at all.


Every egg you eat, you're consuming and aborted baby chick.


Never got to grow up, never got to be cool.

that isn't necessarily true unless its fertilized

 

[Blooie]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always hear people who say that eating egg yolks is eating a poor little chick who didn't get a chance to grow and enjoy life. Isn't the yolk just the food source for the developing embryo if - and I stress IF - the egg is fertilized? I may have oversimplified it, but..............

 

[pingu1]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always hear people who say that eating egg yolks is eating a poor little chick who didn't get a chance to grow and enjoy life. Isn't the yolk just the food source for the developing embryo if - and I stress IF - the egg is fertilized? I may have oversimplified it, but..............

that's right the yolk is the food source and the reason for turning

 

[Spartan22]

I think I'll turn vegetarian and abandon chicken raising after reading this thread. Move to an island and abandon civilization too.

 

[pingu1]

Thank you! My mom raised us to be open minded but also state our opinions. I am so grateful that I'm not shy about making myself heard (even thought some of my friends get a bit annoyed). I try to think about all sides of an argument (and research it thoroughly) before going one way or another. When I decided to raise chickens, I didn't know that the argument on whether to eat "pet" chickens or not was such a big controversy until I began my research, and this thread just proves that it's something that most backyard chicken owners think about going into it and must decide. My mom again gets all the credit for me being compassionate - she gave me the gene!

 

[perchead]

There are some of our chickens we won't eat because someone in the family has attached to them, but otherwise we do cull some and grow out others strictly for meat..... Idk if I consider any pets?