OMG! What hatchery is this?

[Urbanfarmerkc]

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One of the MAIN reasons I raise my chickens for meat. I see a LOT of folks giving flak for eating your chickens but when you see what their lives are at meat farms, you can understand the difference between life there and life at your farm.

Happy chickens = healthy chicken. That is my motto!

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

Wow!

After seeing how those poor chicks are treated I think I'll quit eating chicken.
I already eat very little beef, I guess it's time to go vegetarian.

 

[desertdarlene]

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One of the MAIN reasons I raise my chickens for meat. I see a LOT of folks giving flak for eating your chickens but when you see what their lives are at meat farms, you can understand the difference between life there and life at your farm.

Happy chickens = healthy chicken. That is my motto!

Yes, I agree. I don't know if I personally could cull my own birds, but I'll have to see when I get my own poultry what will happen.

I left a comment on one of the videos about how this raises a good case for backyard chickens or free-range chickens.

On one of the video links (the one Chickiebooboo posted), it showed how they killed the male chicks, which was really sad and a big waste, too. I guess no one eats capon.

I hate it when the only experiences a little chick or duckling has in life is pain and suffering, not even getting to experience what it's like to eat a bunch of yummy food or anything.

 

[greathorse]

never mind not worth it

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

Kat's Silly Chickens :

Wow!

After seeing how those poor chicks are treated I think I'll quit eating chicken.
I already eat very little beef, I guess it's time to go vegetarian.

It more makes me want to raise my own meat and butcher them myself. Then I know they had a good life, but thats just me. I couldnt live without meat

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

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It more makes me want to raise my own meat and butcher them myself. Then I know they had a good life, but thats just me. I couldnt live without meat

I really eat very little meat, more chicken than others, but we are raising some egg layers and it won't be hard to switch to protein fortified backyard raised eggs, instead of meats.

 

[dawg53]

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[A.T. Hagan]

You can have your meat raised any way you want it IF you are willing to pay for it. Special handling is going to result in a special price too.

Hatching those birds out costs money. If more than the smallest percentage of those chicks are injured the hatchery is going to lose money. They are not going to handle the birds in such a way as to do that.

 

[EweSheep]

Like circumized (sp) male babies, they are too young to remember how painful the journey has been.....by the time they are a month old, they would never remember the ordeal of going down the surgery room.

Like the chicks, they would not remember what has happened to them, belt to shipping, and they will thrive under the TLC of their owners. Sometimes we "humanize" the chicks too much.

Personally I do not see it as a real problem unless it was filthy, having HIGH losses of chicks coming off the belt, either dead or injured. Some may have some "failure to thrive" chicks who are already weaken by poor genetics, incubation problems or just don't have the fight to stay alive.

 

[silkiechicken]

A.T. Hagan :

You can have your meat raised any way you want it IF you are willing to pay for it. Special handling is going to result in a special price too.

Hatching those birds out costs money. If more than the smallest percentage of those chicks are injured the hatchery is going to lose money. They are not going to handle the birds in such a way as to do that.

And even if you had people picking out chicks by hand, no guarantee that would be treated any better by a human who takes the job for the income. Would just cost you a couple of bucks more a chick...so that 38 dollar order might be 100+. But if a hatchery did that, advertised their method of handling with that cost, and enough people actually paid that price to keep the business in business, well, that would be change from the bottom.

I personally would pay for that 38 dollar box as I've not had mortality of shipped chicks to be any higher than that of birds I hatched myself.​