How is your flock today?

[chickentrains]

I'm pretty bonded to my chickens, but maybe i'll try that some day

they are pets with the benefits of eggs, its ok if they won't lay

 

[Parront]

My flock was fine without me today. I had to drive my neighbor to her Dr. in Phoenix and then we went shopping at Ikea, a big treat for us hicks from Prescott! They laid their eggs, hubby collected them, no problem. Get home check food and water, turn on electric fence, eat dinner, no problem.

 

[Eggs by Happy Chickens]

Doing okay. Lost a Polish girl yesterday which is odd. One minute she is fine next she is huddled up and then deceased. However, rather than that everyone is good! Gearing up to the 80’s during the day. Getting plenty of eggs.

 

[Parront]

I'm pretty bonded to my chickens, but maybe i'll try that some day

they are pets with the benefits of eggs, its ok if they won't lay

I know, but the day comes. I prefer to eat them than to bury them. I think I honor their lives in this manner.

 

[chickentrains]

I know, but the day comes. I prefer to eat them than to bury them. I think I honor their lives in this manner.

I think we'll give them a friend to dispatch them.

I'm not sure I could stomach eating them though. After so much time I've spent with them

at the end of the day though, its not my call. They are my dads chickens

 

[BlueBaby]

Doing okay. Lost a Polish girl yesterday which is odd. One minute she is fine next she is huddled up and then deceased. However, rather than that everyone is good! Gearing up to the 80’s during the day. Getting plenty of eggs.

Sorry that you lost your polish hen. I'm glad that the other's are ok though.

 

[Parront]

I think we'll give them a friend to dispatch them.

I'm not sure I could stomach eating them though. After so much time I've spent with them

at the end of the day though, its not my call. They are my dads chickens

My kids did not want to eat some of the roosters we hatched, they had played with them too much. I think it takes some time to understand, that I do not love them less at the end of their lives, when I eat them. I hatched them, fed them and raised them. When their life is over, they do not suffer. Many birds do not get this in their lives. We ate this cockerel, he was 12 weeks old. He was a good boy, but too many boys are hatched. He lived a good life, twice as long as a commercial meat bird gets.

 

[chickentrains]

My kids did not want to eat some of the roosters we hatched, they had played with them too much. I think it takes some time to understand, that I do not love them less at the end of their lives, when I eat them. I hatched them, fed them and raised them. When their life is over, they do not suffer. Many birds do not get this in their lives. We ate this cockerel, he was 12 weeks old. He was a good boy, but too many boys are hatched. He lived a good life, twice as long as a commercial meat bird gets.

yeah, I get that. It would just be too sad for me, despite the moral pros.

 

[Parront]

yeah, I get that. It would just be too sad for me, despite the moral pros.

I can understand that. I have some favorite pet chickens buried in the garden! I do not make the kids eat them. But, now that they are grown, I eat them. One of my kids is a dyed in the wool vegetarian. I take credit for that -- if you can't look what you eat in the face and eat it, maybe your are a vegetarian. Most of us eat chicken. She stopped eating chicken when she was 9. She quit eating any meat in college.

 

[chickentrains]

I can understand that. I have some favorite pet chickens buried in the garden! I do not make the kids eat them. But, now that they are grown, I eat them. One of my kids is a dyed in the wool vegetarian. I take credit for that -- if you can't look what you eat in the face and eat it, maybe your are a vegetarian. Most of us eat chicken. She stopped eating chicken when she was 9. She quit eating any meat in college.

I might stop eating meat when I move out, for now, its apart of my families diet, and I'd starve if I didn't.

I just couldn't eat one of my chickens without thinking of how sweet they where, and how much time I spent with the,

I can't look at what I eat in the face, and eat it.. nope. I can eat food that I am not attached to. I am confident if I raised meat birds, and just only interacted with them to feed and water, I could eat them.

Couldn't eat my backyard flock though.

I have NOTHING against anybody who does, though! I think its much more humane than getting chicken from the store. I just couldn't do it.