Eggs from the supermarket...

[wings]

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I notice you also live 30 miles from Boston... out of curiosity, which farm does your family buy milk from?

Hanson Farm in Bridgewater, MA. In Bridgewater, they aren't allowed to sell raw milk, and my dad is friends with one of the farmers there. We just stopped getting it because the cow is sick and they don't think it's wise to let us drink the milk. I miss it!

There is a place in Foxboro, MA (sp?) that is making a lot of money off raw milk, but the farmers at Hanson say it's a really sketchy place.

 

[citalk2much]

I buy raw milk what gets me is they can't sell it for human consumion here so the bottles are marked not a food product or not for human consumion LOL silly government

 

[MissPrissy]

Many of How It's Made episodes are filmed in Canada. The last time I saw the credits role it wasn't a USA tv show. How things are done in Canada are not always how they are done here. Places raising chickens and eggs here could either be better or worse.

 

[patandchickens]

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No, silly zoning laws UNDER THE GUISE OF health issues stop it in the USA. Although perhaps that is changing.

There is absolutely no REAL reason people in cities shouldn't be able to keep hens, although roosters might still be unreasonably unkind to those working the night shift.

It's just a bunch of social, class, tradition, ignorance type issues.


Pat

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Gosh I just love "How It's Made"!!!

 

[beak]

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Yes it is a cool show.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

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When we were in India last fall in a large city, we saw plenty of goats and cows and pigs around. Sometimes the goats would be tied up on the sidewalk, but the pigs and cows were always loose. I have a great picture of a cow drinking out of a water fountain and a calf nursing in the middle of the street! Didn't see a lot of chickens--we suspect it had to do with the large numbers of stray dogs.

I am having a hard enough time getting the chickens to "stay"
I can only imagine how the city would react to sheep, goats and cows in the back yards. Especially if I were processing them! YIKES
The neighbors would freak out.

Back in "the day" there were local slaughter houses. People could bring their goat, veal calf, heifer or horse there to be processed or rendered.
Then came the anti slaughter people. And those places were closed. The land sold and houses built. Now our meat is not local. I dont trust the FDA one iota. And our horses are being put on cramped trailers for longer trips north and south over the borders to a more agonizing and impossible to regulate and keep an eye on their death.

We are not yet a 3rd world country.. although I really dont think we are far from it.
I am just happy that I have a small back yard coop and run. A porch that I am willing to fill with pots of herbs and veggies and the knowledge that I need to work the property I have.

I have never before been THIS grateful for my 4 years spent at an Aggie school.. before it went to all landscaping and cat/dog care and got away from true agriculture.

 

[Dr.Doorlock]

I'm fairly new to all this, but it started for me when my wife read a book "Why Animals Matter - The Case for Animal Protetionism. Since then, we have been eating only free-range eggs. Now we are looking forward to when my girls produce the fressh, well flavored eggs we tasted while on my uncle's farm.

We have 7 pullets though we started with 8. We are exceeding the city's limit by 5 and don't really expectr trouble because we have noisy traffic on three sides and Spanish speaking neighbors who really feel at home when they hear a cackle.

My girls are going to live a rich full life until they get to do nothing but eat feed. I have until then to get my head right to make them a meal. For now, I get a HUGE feeling of peace watching them run around my back yard and scratch around the foundation.