My First Ever Freezer Camp Experience, With an Unexpected Twist!

[theoldchick]

Like many foods, home grown chicken tastes the best. Home grown beef tastes the best. Home-grown port tastes the best.

As part of the veterinary technician program I graduated from the students had to tour several meat processing plants. A horror to be sure with all the death going on, and I was taken aback by the lack of respect for the doomed animal. At least when you do your own you can be respectful and gentle in how you treat your future dinner.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Like many foods, home grown chicken tastes the best. Home grown beef tastes the best. Home-grown port tastes the best.

As part of the veterinary technician program I graduated from the students had to tour several meat processing plants. A horror to be sure with all the death going on, and I was taken aback by the lack of respect for the doomed animal. At least when you do your own you can be respectful and gentle in how you treat your future dinner.

I agree 100% with that. I held each cockerel before allowing my neighbor to take him and put him in the cone. In the time that I held him, I talked to him and pet him gently. Then my neighbor took him, put him in the cone, and before the bird knew what was happening, it's neck was slit and it was all over. I do believe that it was far more humane than any factory farm.

 

[rancher hicks]

I agree 100% with that. I held each cockerel before allowing my neighbor to take him and put him in the cone. In the time that I held him, I talked to him and pet him gently. Then my neighbor took him, put him in the cone, and before the bird knew what was happening, it's neck was slit and it was all over. I do believe that it was far more humane than any factory farm.

I think I've read, an relaxed animal turns out best. When you consider that adrenaline gets pumped into an excited animal it only makes sense. Muscles tense up and tighten. So there may be some truth to it.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Quote: I would like to think so.