OMG...I am Shocked!!!

[Bec]

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I totally agree with ya! I just think that it is kind of weird to have a group of kids get all excited about these new little lives and then they are taken off to be killed. Although the kids don;t know that will happen, but I wonder why the zoo wouldnt contact the hatcheries and go about it that way????

I did some more research and found that the link I had was for the Delaware County Program in PA....my son's is the University of Delaware program here is Delaware so it just says that they will come pick them, doesn't say what will happen to them after that....Isn't going to stop me from tryingto snag a few if they will allow it!!!

 

[ascott1978]

I hope no one here has ever order pullets only from a hatchery. If so, you'll effectively done the same thing. You've said I want females only and the males... well you figure it out.

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

I had that happen with me with my 4-H project, I hatched 22 out of 24 eggs and gave the (sex-linked) males to a project that takes in injured birds of prey and rehabilatates (sp?) them. So the cockerels entered the food chain and the girls are sold at the fair. But they shoud at least ask the kids's parents if they could keep some.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

I don't understand anyone having an issue with this educational experience and the useful manner in which the chicks are utilized!!

It appears to be a win-win for all involved. Instead of being worried about whether the children know the fate of the "cute, cuddly, poor, defenseless" chicks we should be praising the fact that someone is trying to teach non-farm children the rudimentary basics of life and where food comes from.

Jim

 

[ascott1978]

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay :

I don't understand anyone having an issue with this educational experience and the useful manner in which the chicks are utilized!!

It appears to be a win-win for all involved. Instead of being worried about whether the children know the fate of the "cute, cuddly, poor, defenseless" chicks we should be praising the fact that someone is trying to teach non-farm children the rudimentary basics of life and where food comes from.

Jim

Well posted​

 

[wegotchickens]

I agree with Lazy J too.

If they grew up to become food for us, would you still complain? Or is it because they go to their deaths while cute and fluffy?

Zoo animals gotta eat, too...

 

[seismic wonder2]

Why don't they do that with Sea Gulls.
I'm willing to bet none of the locals here in San Diego will give one hoot If they cart away and murder those squacking, pooing, flying rats!

I take that back, some people have pet rats.

 

[Homegroanacres]

4\\H and FFA teach "Animal Husbandry" which includes the
all aspects of animal life...

What do you think happens to all the male chicks that are not
bought... I won't name names here but I know at least one
hatchry that sells all left over chicks to a group that kills them,
freezes them, to feed later to the animals in their care that will
eat them. Just part of life

To have well round kids it would seem to me that they would
need to know all aspects of life (age dependent of course)

What I have learned on the farm through several decades has
done more to make me a whole person than anything else.

Everything dies

No animal will be so loved that it can't be sold or eatin.

IMHO

Just to end on some humor, I have put on my hip waders, my
metal helmet and my gas mask and dug a foxhole to hide in for all the incoming fire!!

 

[Vamp-A-Billy Princess]

I hate the fact of knowing where food comes from. Having chickens is bringing me closer to vegtarianism everyday. I've only been able to eat chicken once since I found out about my son's pet cornish x, BoBo. Those poor meat birds get so big so fast that they die regardless if anyone is butchering them or not. I really want to quit eating it. I crack when I get to a chinese buffet. I cant resist General Tso. I have lived my whole life having to pretend that chicken nuggets grow on trees and hamburger is a plant. The thought of eating animals makes me want to hurl, but I'm having trouble quitting.
Miss Annie

 

[ascott1978]

Makes me wonder, after this tread is someone going to open a "No Kill Chicken Coop Shelter"