Well, the poultry are my teen daughter’s business. I help her with all things poultry, including butchering either excess cockerels or birds we’ve bred for meat. If we can sell them then we do that. We sold all of last week’s birds and will butcher and sell more next weekend. I do like to cook and sometimes cook meat for the family. I’ve been wanting to try making Beer Can Chicken and Coq au vin.
Ooooh that's my dream, to make food I don't have to eat.
No one understands me - "you don't like bread? but you bake bread?!"
I enjoy the creation process okay.
Sadly I'm mostly by myself and don't have enough people to eat my experiments
You're so funny. I would think excess food would attract friends!
I love bread! Where do I sign up?
I’ve been vegetarian for a long time but not vegan. I like eating the eggs from the birds we raise. The dairy products are my main point of consternation.
It’s always so nice seeing that the battery hens can do well if they are given a chance. I’ve been tangentially involved with the US animal farming system for years, and that’s why I went vegetarian, back in 1990. My main issue has always been with close confinement, big business farming, where market forces drive the animal husbandry decisions. The poultry and swine systems are the ones that I’m most troubled by, with the swine and battery hens being the worst of the lot. For awhile I was buying my family meat from a local farm, which I think is so much more humane and healthy. However, we have no freezer space and I was the only one cooking the local meat, which is not really sustainable long term. Once we’ve butchered and consumed our current group of meat chickens, I expect I’ll try again with our local places. It’s an uphill battle for me though when I’m the only one in our family who values local.
