I just have to ask...(don't be mad meat people!)

[go-veggie]

Thank you, JJ, I agree with everything you said. The words do become a visual picture that tends to replay if you don't immediately put it out of your mind...and even then it can creep back in. Thanks for sharing your thoughts... Thanks for the other replies too!

 

[Wildsky]

In the early days I clicked on a few threads that were not detailed enough in the subject line - and I got an eyefull.

I'm not vegan or anything, I just USED to find it difficult to look at some things. I have gotten used to it, and the idea of buying and eating my own meat chickens seems to be a little closer .... healthier choices, a better life for the chickens etc.

 

[go-veggie]

My mom has a Muscovy duck as a pet that lives in her house. She is the only person in WI keeping cashflow coming into her local sod farm in the middle of winter.

Yes, I said SOD...in her house! (just in one room)

I was raised with so many animals as a kid and I was taught to treat them like pets but respect & love them like family and always keep their feelings in mind because they feel pain just like we do. That is something that is just part of who I am, and even though I might be sensitive to some of the things that need to be done to put meat on people's plates, I would never want to change how I feel. Now, that said, my mom is CRAZY keeping her duck, "Jeanne", in her house all winter! It's a LOT of work! I'm not that bad!

I'm just one of the people who wishes we could just put animals under or use pain control or something so they don't feel the pain of their death. Thank for listening! Thanks for the replies to my post too!

 

[SpottedCrow]

I skip completely over that section, go-veggie...because my bird is a pet, and besides she wouldn't be good for anything but soup...if I boiled her for like 2 weeks...

Umm...1acre...guilty!!!

kissing a chicken after you put a diaper on it

I also skip the incubation section because I don't hatch...but I read everything else...I gave up the emergency section for a while when there were birds dropping like flies...it just depressed me too much.​

 

[summerwindsfarm]

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ROFLMAO! There went my pop all over my monitor!

I get the same horrified reaction with my sheep. How can you eat a LAMB?! Well sometimes its not easy..other times you just cant wait! I have one out there now named *evil clown lamb* cause he looks just like an evil clown..and he acts like one too! Believe me..after you have one that jumps out of the chute every time you need to worm, vaccinate or move them..or who smashes you in the mouth with horns ever time you get ahold of them..sending them off to the butcher is not hard to do at all! And i LOVE lambchops!

 

[smith2]

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I really appreciate your response. While I do not have a problem with butchering my own birds, I do realize that for many this could be a very difficult aspect of discussing chickens. I agree with others about using caution when reading the various topics. This is very similar to discussing nursing/medical stories at lunch in the hospital when we are not affected, but we are grossing everyone else out. I do understand your position and appreciate your willingness to discuss your position with others. Killing bothers me as well, but if I am going to eat it, it doesn't bother me as badly as people who are just killing for fun or being mean and cruel. I was raised to believe these are two very different things.

 

[kodiakchicken]

go-veggie,

I am not a vegetarian and love meat and have even been known to fish and hunt, but I completely agree with you about making the titles a little more descriptive. I've read a few that kind of made me sick to my stomach - and I've even thought about raising meat chickens. The ones that are particularly disturbing to me are the posters that automatically say "cull! cull! cull!" with graphic descriptions to a post about an injured chick, duck or anything else instead of offering other advice and giving the little feathered one a chance. I wouldn't spend a fortune at a vet on a chicken, but you can bet I wouldn't chop it's head off without trying something else first!

 

[summerwindsfarm]

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You might find it surprising that most homesteaders feel the same way. Our mottos is.. a good life and a quick humane death. You see the meat animals that are raise in mass for human consumption rarely get things like fresh green grass, sunshine, a scratch on an itchy spot.

When we butcher ourselfs the animal is shot. We put grain out..then shoot. They go from happily munching grain without fear to dead. A quick and humane death is very important to most of us who eat the meat that we raise...just as a good life is.

 

[LinckHillPoultry]

I don't process my own birds, my birds are for eggs only.
What you must understand is that chickens are used for 2 major reasons, eggs, & meat.
Processing a chicken is a process many people here need to know. This forum a lot of the time educates us, and in that aspect, the processing of a chicken is educating people who would like to know how to butcher their own chickens.

If you do not want to view stuff related to butchering, simply avoid the meat section.

 

[Mahonri]

I will never forget watching the first time a chicken was "processed".

I finally got good at it myself, but I was taught by my older brother at the time, that it means more when we say the blessing on the food before eating, we are thanking God for the life of that chicken that tastes so delicious. And having seen that life taken, it meant more to me. When my roos start crowing, I'm going to teach my boys the same thing.