Selling Cockerals...do you ask any questions?

[stoopid]

I work with a South American young man who takes all my spare roos. I know they have a good life until he eats them. He was raised on fresh chicken, and they respect where they come from. He used to drive miles out of his way to get fresh killed birds, now he doesn't have to. He says my chickens taste better than the store bought ones.

 

[SmokinChick]

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I'm sure you didn't mean to be, but this is a very offensive and judgmental statement.

The poster is making a statement, I take it as an accurate statement. He is not opining nor making general musing. I read it as a fact that "foriegn people" keep chickens in cabinets.
I feel the poster has no reason to make up that type of statement.

 

[haemony]

I agree. I thought it was a simple statement. I did not see any judgment in it. I did not find it offensive. I did not assume that this implies that *all* foreign people mistreat chickens or keep them in kitchen cabinets. Let's please not go so far into political correctness that one cannot make a simple statement without being considered offensive. I am a "foreign" person (or was one) and this is my opinion.

 

[chickchicks]

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i think if you were to i would be making sure they had a long constructive lesson on how to properly take care and teh responsibilty that they have once they own any animal ,

i understandwhat you say about that some do get eaten but htey still have to live inthe mean time and they sould be cared for like any animal first and respected!

hope you are able to find them all good homes

 

[NonnasBabies]

No, I don't ask any questions. I don't want them anymore and don't have the room so why should I???

 

[teach1rusl]

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OMGosh!! THIS is exactly what I agonize over. I have no problems with someone eating a chicken I might give up. But I cringe when I think of one living out its life stuck in a nasty pen crammed full of birds (typically ratting looking - feather pecked and bare backed).

I think you have every right to inquire about both purpose and conditions. But keep in mind that it might mean loss of a sale.
I weeded out a LOT of takers on a roo I rehomed (and he was FREE). I'm sure the narrative I wrote on the kind of home I was looking for (on my as/listing) made a lot of people either laugh or roll their eyes, but he was one I really stressed about. He may have ended up in a soup pot for all I know, but I knew he would free range with a bunch of hens and have adequate shelter until that happened. My brother took another roo, so I lucked out there in knowing where he was going. And the last roo I can follow on a fellow BYCer's blog.