Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[SimpleJenn]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

Tea is ready.

I'm having Salted Caramel Black Tea from Bigelow yummy
yummy.

Temperature is in the 90s mostly sunny.

Have a great day!

That is one of my favorites! In fact, I might have one tomorrow morning.

 

[BDutch]

And when we get some calamity and the labs go down....no breeders to raise live chickens or beef or whatever else they grow.

All of the future labs worldwide?
A virus like HPAI is possibly just as well a hazard to kill all chickens (so not).

And the crops won't be grown to feed the livestock....

much better. Then we have more food. But … You shouldn’t forget the lab meet needs to be ‘fed’ too.

I guess we could go with algae or plankton but that didn't work out too well in the science fiction movie " Soylent Green"

Sea weed, mealworms and lots of other unusual crops/animal life is very nutritious too.

But the fake meat would not have the same nutritional content.

Compared to what?
Wild chickens, free ranging cattle, milk cows, poorly fed Cornish cross hybrids?
And why are you so sure about this?

It probably depends on the feed / substrate given to the artificial meat.
This is a culture fluid of sugars, amino acids and fats.

Im not against artificial meat if it’s a solution to stop the misery of factory farming.
Another direction to stop factory farming is possible if people are willing pay the price for meat that had a respectable life (like organic labelled meat). It’s possible to spend more money on meat if our meals are more often vegan /vegetarian. Or if the piece of meat is half the size we are used to.

 

[BDutch]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

Tea is ready.

I'm having Salted Caramel Black Tea from Bigelow yummy
yummy.

Temperature is in the 90s mostly sunny.

Have a great day!

I drink a green tea with cranberry now.

Temp drop to 14C at midnight.

Have a good night.

Tax : Cherry tree with free ranging chickens.

 

[no fly zone]

Compared to what?
Wild chickens, free ranging cattle, milk cows, poorly fed Cornish cross hybrids?
And why are you so sure about this?

It probably depends on the feed / substrate given to the artificial meat.
This is a culture fluid of sugars, amino acids and fats.

Compared to anything. You cannot trust Big Ag to do anything other than maximize profits.

 

[Shadrach]

Oops hadn’t properly read the full thread this morning. RIP Matilda & friends. Looking at the picture of Henry and Matilda their run was utterly awful even then. How sad the ex bats moved from there to a home just as bad. Sadly all too common.
Sunday night/ Monday morning’s rain here was quite something..
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Luckily the run is on slightly higher ground & covered in tarps so dry. Apparently a month’s rain in 4 hours. 4 hours later it had drained away & the rain eased but chooks didn’t want to come out until the evening

The run didn't get any better untill I deep dug it. In many case that's all a muddy run needs. What tenda to happen and what happened here was more crap got added to the run, wood mulch, stones, pallets, none of which solved the problem. We've had a lot of rain here over the past few days and while the run still puddles, they drain which wasn't happening before. The accumulation od chicken droppings and paper bedding formed a skin on the surface of the ground and that was primarily what prevented the water draining. I dug one short trench at the top of the slope of the run which I half filled with pea gravel with earth for on top to help cope with the water run off from the ground behind. I dig over a section from time to time now and so far the ground is coping with whatever the weather throws at it.

 

[Shadrach]

flip side to not raising cx broilers is it will encourage lab 'raised' fake meats. Right now they are very expensive. Some day I think the fake meat will be mainly what's available.

FYI I raise my own poultry for meat because I don't agree with how they are raised commercially.... and it costs me about $7 usd a pound verses less than $2 in stores.

If people could be persuaded to eat less meat and the price of decent meat was to go up considerably it would help I beleive. I think in your youth and mine, meat was more of a once or twice a week occasion. These days it seems people expect to eat meat once or twice a day and this alone is contributing to the health problems due to diet we are now facing. I read with some disgust people on this forum writng about how they eat 12oz steaks for example. The digestive system just can't process the nutrients contained in that amount of meat. It's simple gluttony.

 

[Shadrach]

Cheap food leads to expensive health problems.

It has already.

 

[Shadrach]

I'm raising meat birds too. Mine are cochin/americana cross and a couple buff orpingtons. Hoping to let hens hatch some every year to eat, it's a good way to guarantee nice quality and humane raising.
I hadn't planned on butchering myself but dad and I already did one and it wasn't so bad. Honestly the hardest part is not getting too attached to the chicks I think.

I would love to be able to do that. I eat very little meat compared to most people I know but even at a say a chicken once every couple of weeks from a dual purpose breed I would need a lot more room to raise that many in conditions I would consder humane.

 

[Shadrach]

It would be great if lab meat becomes cheaper than factory farming meat. I believe it would end of the large scale animal abuse.

I don't think lab grown meat is the answer.

 

[SimpleJenn]

I would love to be able to do that. I eat very little meat compared to most people I know but even at a say a chicken once every couple of weeks from a dual purpose breed I would need a lot more room to raise that many in conditions I would consder humane.

Yep, this is more of a supplemental amount of chicken. I unfortunately have a health condition that prevents me from digesting most proteins, meat like chicken is the safest for me.
Perhaps if I let the hens raise litters of babies in spring and again in late summer/fall it would have a better impact.