Is it morally right to breed more chickens????

[NHchicks]

Oven Ready, that's a really funny article on how to keep your roosters quiet. Sometimes I think writers need to write, they don't care what.

Altho I did have the idea this morning of totally enclosing my coop in plywood (instead of having it half-enclosed with 1/2 x1/2 in. wire) in order to keep the rooster's roar down in the mornings. This morning around 6 the rooster and the hens got into a Who-Can-Make-The-Ugliest-Scream contest. I tried to catch that bird yesterday to haul him to the feed store/rooster homeless shelter, but couldn't grab him. I have to keep trying. At this rate, I am ready to take back what I said about not being able to kill my own birds. He just may be my first lesson in slaughter... And I might just like it...

 

[Happy Chooks]

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How horrible!

May those people that did that to her get what they deserve!

I'm glad she had you for 1/2 her life. At least her ending was happier than her beginning.

 

[Oven Ready]

Sometimes I think writers need to write, they don't care what.

Along the same lines as .... Roosters need to crow, they don't care when !

I've reposted the link in the Behaviour/Egglaying forum to spread the news that a cure for crowing has been found !

 

[gryeyes]

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I will never look at the produce department of my grocery store the same way again.

 

[Long Last Farm]

You are providing a safe responsible home to your chickens, and are willing to allow them to do what nature intended (breed and procreate), and you are willing to provide a safe responsible home to those BABY chickens.

Please don't take offense, but why do you care what a stranger thinks? YOU know you are doing it "right" by being responsble and providing a good home. Follow your heart and enjoy as many chickens as you can reponsibly care for, and to heck with someone who doesn't agree!

 

[oesdog]

Long lost farm!

I guess the answer to that is I am new to chickens and these are my first chicks. Had a bit of a baptism of fire with them and lost some. Then had to help two hatch and they were very weak. We now have two without a mummy in a brood box and 4 with a hen doing well outside. So yeah I have questioned my motives. I do take on board others oppinions and think them through. I am I guess on a learning curve with the hens. This is my first year owning and breeding.

Thanks for asking.

 

[Oven Ready]

Consider then, that at some point you decide you've had enough with chickens or you need to move into the city or you simply can't look after them anymore - it's only a matter of dispatching the birds, process, cook and eat them. No-one would bat an eyelid, in fact I'm sure there's plenty folks would help you eat them.

A whole different ball game if you were raising kittens, puppies or horses. You'd be in soooooo much trouble for slaughtering 15 cats, never mind eating them.

Keep on Chickening (if that's even a word)

 

[chicken boy sam]

My name is Sam, too, just like the roo. I agree, keep on chickening....

 

[Red&Yellow]

Keep on breeding, hun. Chicks are cute, hens lay eggs, and roosters are yummy.

 

[oesdog]

Hay - Just got my wee chick seen to at the Vet tonight!

Honestly that fellow has to have a personality dysfunction ( If he had one that is?) Only trouble is he’s the only Vet for like miles so its him or no one!!!

Trying to explain that the chicks need to be warm is really hard work when dealing with the receptionist! They were well less than helpful. Probably because most folk round here wouldn’t bother with the wee chick. Its a farming community so I guess they think I am a wee bit mad in the head. If a chick doesn’t make the grade it usually ends up in the belly of another animal not in the vets!

- So I sat with my chickies ( both of them as one frets for the other if I separate them!) . The receptionist looked at me like I was crazy when I didn’t turn up with a brut on the end of a leash or some flea bitten old moggy. No I am the daft one with a box of chicks worrying about the temperature and wondering why the old bat next to me wont shut her dog up and why the door has to be open ALL the time!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am finally in front of the vet with no personality trying to explain why I think this chick is worth spending time and money on? - He looks at me like I am insane and takes the bird screeching from the box. He puts on these weird glasses and has a good long look at the poor critter and tuts loudly. Thankfully everyone has left as I am last!!!!!!!!!!! Just as I think he is going to do a quickie on the poor things neck he says Ahhhh just a wee set back - bad eye infection ( I'm thinking you don't say Einstein?) Then I quickly grab my chance – “Um you wouldn’t know like what sex it is????” - So he tips it upside down and the thing is screeching and trying to grip on to his hand - I'm thinking God is he really looking for a willy???? Then he grunts and stuffs the thing back in the box!
(Obviously he didn’t find a willy - I think????? - Do I trust this guy?????????) He doesn’t answer so I guess he wants more money to tell me - he can’t find a willy! So I grab the ointment he offers and withdraw ! 3 times a day I think he said? - well it was kind of a muffled instruction into his hand - I think he was trying to stop himself laughing?

I hate the Vet!!!!!!!!!! More than Murphy my Dog - and the Vet did find his willy!

Well the ointment is on and the wee chick looks like he actually has an eye under all the gloop tonight! So maybe, maybe it was worth it after all. The Vet I mean!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess now we have to tot up viability - how many eggs is this maybe Rooster likely to lay OR NOT! And how fat might it become and how many folk might be fed and is all that worth the massive bill I am likely to receive in the post!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then I catch a glimpse of him looking at me through his one good eye and I know – oh bugger I don’t care about the blasted cost!

Aint loving Chickens really GOOOOOOOD!!

Oesdog