Is It Cruel ??

[Hobbley_Farm]

I know it's crazy but Chickens just love Meat. Even if it's Chicken Meat. But if you look at other animals...many do the same thing. It's not uncommon for the same species or breed to eat family members

 

[lovemychix]

I have a hard time with giving them chicken, but I do through the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving and they love it.

 

[whathaveidone]

I've read it is not good to feed chicken that was culled from the flock because of concerns around spreading disease. Not sure why it's different than chicken from the store.... ?

We've been experimenting with scraps for our hens. So far they haven't turned their noses up at anything!

Meet trimmings: loved 'em
Bones from pork ribs: picked 'em clean
Watermellon rind: Devoured it.

The main thing is to make sure the meat is cooked and hasn't spoiled.

 

[ript]

this thread already has crossed the cannibalism line, so i'll toss in my .02

chickens dont care what they eat, we're the ones projecting our virtues and values on them.

most animals will eat their own kind.

try to be discrete as i can while talking about the subject, but..

as a kid growing up on a farm that had several meat flocks on a butcher rotation i've had my share of chickens eating chicken stories. When butcher time came around, the living flocks were more than happy to dispose of the 'leftovers' from the unlucky flock. great nutritional value, and if we didn't have an open garden bed to mulch it into, well we weren't going to let all that good stuff go to waste. neither were the other chickens!


never let a sick bird or bird that has died from illness around the flock. it risks infecting the rest of the flock, and if you have a sick chicken die around the others, the others waste no time in doing what chickens do best. peck. peck. and peck some more. I imagine ingesting diseased flesh ranks as one of the surest ways to spread an illness. while unpleasant to think about, it's even more disturbing to experience.

I've read it is not good to feed chicken that was culled from the flock because of concerns around spreading disease. Not sure why it's different than chicken from the store.... ?

I would imagine the difference between a culled sick chicken and chicken you get at the store is that the store isn't selling you meat from diseased birds. FDA something or other...

It's probably not raw either if you give them store chicken.

(whathaveidone, i'm not trying to be condescending, i'm just not able to transfer my ideas and/or my sense of humor into a text form very well. i usually try to compensate by using a lot of smilies)