Hilarious jokes about chicken for dinner 🙄

[Cebarmlds]

You could say to those people, yep eating my pets is just one step closer to cannibalism, haha! and then give their chubby arm a little squeeze and say yummm

 

[Lazygaze]

Not at all!
I have separate chickens I raise for meat. I don't get SUPER attached to them, I only have them for seven weeks, but I truly love them and care greatly about their quality of life. I appreciate them for feeding me and my fam. They have names like tender, pattie and soup.
My layer flock. I think that my original 10 girls will get to just live out their natural life here. They ignited my love for poultry. The other 15 or so, when they stop laying, will hit the soup pot and be replaced. Just wanted to give you an idea of how it works here. Different flocks for different purposes.

This year I am starting a meat rabbit breeding program. It will be a challenge emotionally separating from those little cuties. But I think I am ready.

Totally get what you’re saying about different flocks for different purposes. I hope that I can have a similar system to yours when I upgrade the amount of space I have. These are just my first, I watched them all hatched and they lived in my sitting room until quite recently I’m quite smitten!
Rabbits! AmaZing! Would love to hear more about that!

 

[Tre3hugger]

Totally get what you’re saying about different flocks for different purposes. I hope that I can have a similar system to yours when I upgrade the amount of space I have. These are just my first, I watched them all hatched and they lived in my sitting room until quite recently I’m quite smitten!
Rabbits! AmaZing! Would love to hear more about that!

Well I will be housing them in 48"x30" cages suspended in the layer barn. I hope to have 2 does and a buck that i breed rotationally to provide about 1 litter (7 bunnies) worth of meat per month. The grow outs are ready for harvest at 8 weeks. The breeds I am looking at, Californian and New Zealand, dress out about 3 pounds at that weight. I LOVE animals, but hate factory farming. I also love meat. So I want to eat more meat, buy less of it from commercial production. Rabbits were a natural choice. They require little space, and their meat is literally some of the most nutritious protein in the world. Their manure is also PURE GOLDS for the garden. I am hoping to learn how to preserve the pelts so the waste will be zero. I think that kinda sums it up!! I actually just finished setting up the cages today. As soon as the polar vortex is over, i'll be rabbit shopping!

 

[Sally PB]

^^ applauding your plan here!

 

[Tre3hugger]

Thanks @Sally PB ! I plan to detail everything in a thread once the animals are in place

 

[Lazygaze]

Well I will be housing them in 48"x30" cages suspended in the layer barn. I hope to have 2 does and a buck that i breed rotationally to provide about 1 litter (7 bunnies) worth of meat per month. The grow outs are ready for harvest at 8 weeks. The breeds I am looking at, Californian and New Zealand, dress out about 3 pounds at that weight. I LOVE animals, but hate factory farming. I also love meat. So I want to eat more meat, buy less of it from commercial production. Rabbits were a natural choice. They require little space, and their meat is literally some of the most nutritious protein in the world. Their manure is also PURE GOLDS for the garden. I am hoping to learn how to preserve the pelts so the waste will be zero. I think that kinda sums it up!! I actually just finished setting up the cages today. As soon as the polar vortex is over, i'll be rabbit shopping!

This is really fascinating! and I’m totally with you on liking meat but not the meat industry. Good luck with your new endeavour!

 

[B-Goock]

Lol when they come over for dinner ask about the weight they've put on and call them "my pet"

I have favorites & I raise meat birds but I was raised on a farm so part of their entire purpose is to feed the family. For me the difference between my birds & store bought is mine got raised and cared for with quality of life & healthy diet in mind. Some get to hang around far past their "prime production" part of life. Not a retirement home but a good life.

I do have a friend with ducks and he won't even eat their eggs. Lol. Sadly he just tosses them in the trash.