Official BYC Poll: What Is Your Perspective On Chickens For Meat

[mommiesrcool]

I DO eat chickens just not my own but my mother has been saying that ever since we got chickens she feels weird and it taste different to her

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Can you explain why?

Because if they clones all the chixks, then they would all look the same as adults, and we would no long have hatchery-quaility birds

 

[parvani]

Because if they clones all the chixks, then they would all look the same as adults, and we would no long have hatchery-quaility birds

They don't grow to be adults; but even if they did, there are often genetic anomalies that show up in clones. They don't all look exactly alike except in science fiction.

There is no reason on earth why there would not be BOTH laboratory-style hatcheries AND old-style hatcheries. But as the laboratories become more efficient, the old-style hatcheries will be fewer and fewer. That's not conspiracy theory -- just the reality of economics.

After all, the only reason people eat bland CX meat at all is that it's so much cheaper than heritage chicken meat.

 

[Nero70002]

I don’t eat mine because they are my pets. I also don’t really like eggs, but I’ll gladly use them for desserts.

 

[RedneckUrbanFarmer]

I eat chicken, but not my own.

Currently, I live in the city and am limited in the number of hens I can have. I have no issue with eating their eggs, or with eating chicken in general. I have been known to go outside to lock them up at night while I still have "chicken dinner" on my breath

I would LOVE to live on some acerage and have more birds, something like a flock of dual-purpose heritage breeds. RIR are my favorite heritage birds. In that situation, I don't know if I'd have the ability (physically, not mentally) to do the processing myself, but I would not have any trouble eating them, especially since I know how they were raised and cared for before hand.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

They don't grow to be adults; but even if they did, there are often genetic anomalies that show up in clones. They don't all look exactly alike except in science fiction.

There is no reason on earth why there would not be BOTH laboratory-style hatcheries AND old-style hatcheries. But as the laboratories become more efficient, the old-style hatcheries will be fewer and fewer. That's not conspiracy theory -- just the reality of economics.

After all, the only reason people eat bland CX meat at all is that it's so much cheaper than heritage chicken meat.

The reason why there's not lab hatcheries is because they aren't legal to use meat from anyways and there's no way that wouldn't be exposed in today's world.

Hatcheries don't clone chicks and chicks grow to adults otherwise all my hatchery chicks would still be chicks

 

[Timmy59]

What did you make them from? And how are they fastened?

It was a flat piece of metal that I rolled then drilled and riveted.. You'll notice they are a good bit taller then whats on the market.. I used what was probably 24 inch square or maybe bigger.. I person / MAN lol might use some flashing of a smaller size and pull it off.. I processed 3 turkeys so they are to my liking.. The depth means they aren't coming back out.. 2 on the tree draining while 2 are being processed.. BTW we ate some more of our chicken tonight..

 

[Timmy59]

I started raising chickens because I wanted to taste REAL chicken, not 8-week-old Franken-chicks that would die of heart attacks if they weren't butchered by nine weeks.

Those Franken-chicks aren't sustainable. If civilization collapses (and history has shown that it eventually does, sometimes suddenly), those genetically engineered birds will cease to exist.

For thousands of years, humans have been raising and breeding chickens for eggs, meat, beauty, and even companionship. And now that long history of humans with chickens is at risk because the Franken-chicken is fast and cheap.

But Franken-chickens don't live long enough to lay their own eggs.

Have you ever asked yourselves why you can only buy Cornish Cross meat birds as day-old chicks?

I strongly suspect that the answer is, those day old chicks don't hatch from actual eggs, the kind that have shells. I suspect they all incubate in laboratory conditions, factory style, dumped out of their plastic egg sacks when mature, rinsed off and air dried, then inspected and culled for abnormalities before being boxed and shipped off to farmers and retailers.

I grow REAL chickens, and when my flock is big enough that is the only kind of chicken I will want to eat.

Sure, I have a few I name. I probably won't eat the individual hens who have become pets.

But you know, chickens are delicious. Every predator knows this. So it's not really a matter of WILL they be eaten... but WHO will eat them.

If given a choice, I'd bet that the chickens would prefer to be eaten by someone who feeds and waters and protects them, who incubates their eggs and ensures that their family lives on even though individual chickens have to die. That seems like a much better deal than being eaten by any old wild animal, who may just slaughter the entire flock and leave their carcasses to rot.

Many heritage meat breeds are becoming rare and even endangered because farmers can no longer afford to raise them in competition with cheap Franken-chicken. This is a tragedy that should be prevented.

So yes, I DO eat my own chickens. Eating them is the whole point!

I put a like on that because I agree with a good bit of it.. 61 years, 2nd gen farmer doesn't agree with the lab bs and the pink plastic eggs and free blow dry.. BUT man has taken it a step too far.. But then again humans are prone to do such.. I use circling the drain on occasion.. So after years of franken birds and the virus hitting I joined here in search of a sustainable meat bird.. I have a copy of the poultry standard my mom left me that's older than many or most here.. I wanted the standard white Cornish, guess what ? They're as scarce as flea teeth.. I ended up but a hatchery 5 advertised as slow grow.. They started laying before 5 months just recently, 7 eggs yesterday.. So it looks like we may have lucked out.. But until we hatch grow monitor and eat we won't know for sure.. On the right path though..

 

[Timmy59]

The amount of cookies makes my pc uptight.. I ended up buying hatchery chicks..

 

[salshep20]

I DO eat chickens just not my own but my mother has been saying that ever since we got chickens she feels weird and it taste different to her

its because the store crap traps u and ur body has to make ajustments to eating real chicken