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[apryl29]

It's amazing how many people still think you need roosters (or hormones) to get eggs.....

I'm a "crunchy" person who doesn't like a lot of the practices of the animal oriented food operations, but even I know that isn't true.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/introducing-roosters-to-a-group-of-pullets.1287299/

I wonder what they think all those people who live in those towns that don't allow roosters are doing.

It really is amazing the lack of knowledge about where/how food comes from and to us.

I had a college educated person tell me "you cannot eat a hens first eggs. They are full of yucky stuff." . A week later he asked me how on earth I got eggs with no rooster.
He got educated about eggs.....I bet he never ate another.

They can have yucky stuff, but I use them and crack them into a separate bowl before adding them to stuff so I can pick out the 'meat'... I know some people don't care, but I'd rather not eat that. I won't sell a new layers eggs b/c I don't want ppl to think my eggs are gross, plus they're really small. My olive eggs are just now getting big enough that I'm comfortable selling them. The smaller light brown eggs are still super tiny.

 

[Redhead Rae]

I wonder what they think all those people who live in those towns that don't allow roosters are doing.

They jack their girls up with hormones, obviously!

 

[apryl29]

Ethel is a "very upset, clingy, confused" woman!
It is really round, and she swarmed me just talking her head off like "Mom! Something fell outta my butt!"
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Beautiful!!!!

I'm glad I got started on homesteading before my kids were 5-6 and older. DH and I have friends who got started with Quail. The kids were fine with the eggs, but refused to eat the meat. Then they got rabbits. Their oldest daughter, who is 8-9, was REALLY traumatized by that. I'm giving them some of my pullets in the spring.

My oldest is watching some videos in health class about processing animals for food. Yesterday's video was about chickens and now she's traumatized. She texted me from school saying she didn't want to eat meat last night and wants to go see the chickens so she can hug them all.

 

[apryl29]

They jack their girls up with hormones, obviously!

Well, for a little guy Willie must be making the rounds w/ all his ladies to keep them pumping out those eggs.

 

[Chickassan]

I'm surprised they show those films, consensus today is they don't want people thinking about where food comes from past the supermarket.

Beautiful!!!!


My oldest is watching some videos in health class about processing animals for food. Yesterday's video was about chickens and now she's traumatized. She texted me from school saying she didn't want to eat meat last night and wants to go see the chickens so she can hug them all.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Can anyone imagine the insanity at commercial egg farms if one HAD to have x roosters to y hens?

OMG that would get loud.

 

[Chickassan]

That would be awful! Unless they were all Pat clones.

Can anyone imagine the insanity at commercial egg farms if one HAD to have x roosters to y hens?

OMG that would get loud.

 

[21hens-incharge]

That would be awful! Unless they were all Pat clones.

I love that! Made me smile at a bunch of Pats going off in an echoing barn!

 

[rjohns39]

It's amazing how many people still think you need roosters (or hormones) to get eggs.....

I'm a "crunchy" person who doesn't like a lot of the practices of the animal oriented food operations, but even I know that isn't true.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/introducing-roosters-to-a-group-of-pullets.1287299/

You got me to look rae, still shaking my head.

 

[Chickassan]

Can you imagine? I'd buy a carton of Pats no doubt about it.

I love that! Made me smile at a bunch of Pats going off in an echoing barn!