My last post on this topic, I swear.

[KellyHM]

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I was raised on a cattle farm, but I still don't like to kill my farm animals. I can do it, but it's not my preference. I'll shoot and butcher a hog, deer, rabbit, squirrel, turkey, whatever in the blink of an eye and without a second thought, but it's different for me when I've raised an animal and it trusts me. Now, I've trapped/raised wild hogs that never tame down and I don't have a problem with them at processing time b/c they've never actually trusted me. Don't know why it makes a difference for me, but it does.

 

[NYRIR]

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Exactly...my DH does the butchering....I can't bring myself to do it,but I know after seeing how the commercial ones are treated? I'd rather raise my own

The first two were the hardest because I had named them and had them for a year....learned from that! I had them in the fridge and kept thinking every time I opened it..."That's Foghorn...and there's Leghorn..." Took me a month and a half to cook and eat them.

 

[Denninmi]

Hey, I did it!

I placed my order this afternoon after work -- 25 Cornish X and 6 Broadbreasted Bronze turkeys.

I feel pretty good about the decision to give it a try. It's a load off my mind just making a decision.

Whoo hoo -- now I need start keeping my records of just how much this costs, so I can figure out how I did at the end $$$ wise.

I want really big, plump, meaty, delicious birds.

Funny, I sure look at things in my yard differently now -- I evalute everything on the basis of -- hmm, can I feed this to chickens? They'll be well fed in the summer, all kinds of good stuff for them.

 

[walls0stone3]

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Very interesting comment. You've added another facet I had not considered, and you make an excellent point.

and I mean NOOOOO---------------- dissrespect for anyone! NONE!

but many people who suffer threw the hacking at political games of the office often take refuge in farm of such. We perceve or "feel" love when little chicks come to our feet for food, and we as a ppl wish that others would come to us saying " we love you " but in all reality, those little chicks see us as a point of food, and do not come to us with admeration, but looking to take food from us in the same way the fellow in the next cubical wants something from us as well.

Do I talk to my birds, yes.. I name them and pet them. I've owned 1,885 lb bulls that I'd rub under the chin and talk to like puppies... but given the chance, he'd dance on my face.

it's a unique relationship.