Processing Day Support Group ~ HELP us through the Emotions PLEASE!

[Beekissed]

It seems I ALWAYS end up with black feathered roosters... their feathers leave those little black spots behind. Last one was so slow to fully feather, at 17 weeks he still had pinfeathers (his brother still had pins at 20 weeks). Took me forever to get him plucked.

I hope my kids will grow up thinking it's normal to kill for food. My step-son fishes with his step-dad and he's heard all about them hunting for venison. He knows we eat excess roosters... Eventually I want a tractor with rabbits (I love rabbit meat).. gonna be an issue with the step-son, he loves rabbits.. in the cuddly sense. My two year old is special needs (undiagnosed, as of yet, but he's developmentally very behind), he has no clue.. he likes walking around in the coop though, ignores the chickens, he just likes being in the coop

We're expecting a daughter in April, having chickens from day one may make it easier on her.. since she wont know any different.

I should hope so! I wonder what folks tell their kids about where their meat comes from if they are raising them with the idea that it's abnormal to kill for food.

What have you told them up until now? What do other people tell their kids when this question arises....I'm curious!

 

[Happy Chooks]

What do other people tell their kids when this question arises....I'm curious!

I always told mine where it came from - starting when they were little.

 

[Tomtommom]

I should hope so! I wonder what folks tell their kids about where their meat comes from if they are raising them with the idea that it's abnormal to kill for food.

What have you told them up until now? What do other people tell their kids when this question arises....I'm curious!

Sad to say, my step-son used to think chicken nuggets did NOT come from a chicken. They come from the grocery store.... Kid logic.

A decade or so ago I was a teacher-to-be.. spent a lot of time with kids during my training. You would be stunned to hear how many kids think food comes from the grocery store. No further thought behind it. You have to take them to a farm for them to believe milk comes from a cow!

I was 12 I think, before I really gave it some thought. Went vegetarian for 2 days... we had chicken on day 3, I did not make it til the end of dinner without eating some chicken wings

Cruelty be ******, chicken tasted too good to me.

 

[Beekissed]

No way! No curiosity? Nothing seen on TV or read in a book that would suggest otherwise? How is that even possible?

 

[Tomtommom]

No way! No curiosity? Nothing seen on TV or read in a book that would suggest otherwise? How is that even possible?

City kids.. I guess. Parents are just as clueless. Kids watch cartoons.. takes a teacher to show them reality (and ofcourse it can't be TOO much reality, because you know.. political correctness.)

 

[Beekissed]

That's really scary...but I believe it. Even here in WV there are elderly adults that do not know that eggs come from a chicken's butt, so it's conceivable that there are adults that do not know that chickens have to die before you get to consume them and that a human kills them.

 

[jajeanpierre]

I should hope so! I wonder what folks tell their kids about where their meat comes from if they are raising them with the idea that it's abnormal to kill for food.

What have you told them up until now? What do other people tell their kids when this question arises....I'm curious!

I don't think most people even think about it. I doubt they view the meat in the store as an animal that used to breathe.

 

[Tomtommom]

We've got some babies. 2 white rock, 2 barred rock.. straight run. So momma is gonna have her some chicken dinner in a few months

 

[jajeanpierre]

No way! No curiosity? Nothing seen on TV or read in a book that would suggest otherwise? How is that even possible?

A lot of kids don't realize that the grocery store chicken is a bird. There is a real disconnect.

I think that disconnect is what makes it possible for the commercial farming industry to get away with the cruel practices that are industry "standard."

 

[Beekissed]

I don't think most people even think about it. I doubt they view the meat in the store as an animal that used to breathe.

Isn't that rather zombie-like?

It's scary that grown people don't view meat as coming from a living creature. What do they think about when they are alone, I wonder? Does the mind just draw a blank and they don't ponder on such things? And maybe that's why they can treat human life with such disdain and apathy as well...just something that it's better not to think about, just live your life and try not to think while you are doing it?

Once again I feel like an alien on a strange planet and I just now realized that I'm the alien here, as I seem to be in a singular minority and do not understand the customs on this planet.