What happens to all the Rooster chicks?????

[ooptec]

hey,

Around here they are sexed as soon as hatched and roo's are mostly tossed in a mascerator and the resultant pink slime (I presume it's pink) is dried, added to dog food as chicken by-product. Which compared to soy in dogfood is not that bad.

cheers

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

I don't consider throwing them into the meat-grinder all that inhumane. It only takes 2-3 seconds and it's over... It would be worse if they went on to live in a battery farm or broiler house.

 

[annabell254]

I dont know I guess it is not inhumane....it is just the idea of sweet little fuzzy babies being tossed away before they even live that is getting to me....Yes I know that is probably hypocritical of me somehow...as you are right about the meat houses being a fate worse than death....I guess we all die one day....I have issues with it, with mortality and I guess this just makes me think about it too much for comfort....What is life anyways? whether it is 1 hour or 100 years...the same thing happens to all of us regardless of our species or wealth, or anything....like the old saying 'the only thing for sure in this world is death and taxes'

and they get to skip out on the taxes

 

[bakerjw]

There is an easy fix for this issue. Capons!

 

[Red Barn Farms]

Us being one of the richest countries in the world you'd think we'd take those poor male babies and ship them to a poor country where people are starving for food. This could become a future 'help to feed the children' organization project.

How many baby chickens are culled a year? Billions that could have went for starving people!!! We have starving people right in here the good ole US of Al!! Millions of pounds of meat done away with because of greed and earning that American dollar. It's so sad knowing what our country has became.


Sorry to vent here, this just makes me very SAD and very MAD when reading this! So many things can be done differently.

Instead of being tossed out like trash why not raise them to the appropriate age to then be processed into food. This should be a world hunger project.

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The statement taken below from Santa Clara University Markkula Center, for Applied Ethics



By Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez
Between now and tomorrow morning, 40,000 children will starve to death. The day after tomorrow, 40,000 more children will die, and so on throughout 1992. In a "world of plenty," the number of human beings dying or suffering from hunger, malnutrition, and hunger-related diseases is staggering. According to the World Bank, over 1 billion people—at least one quarter of the world's population—live in poverty. Over half of these people live in South Asia; most of the remainder in sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia.
Giving aid to the poor in other nations may require some inconvenience or some sacrifice of luxury on the part of peoples of rich nations, but to ignore the plight of starving people is as morally reprehensible as failing to save a child drowning in a pool because of the inconvenience of getting one's clothes wet.

In fact, according to Singer, allowing a person to die from hunger when it is easily within one's means to prevent it is no different, morally speaking, from killing another human being. If I purchase a VCR or spend money I don't need, knowing that I could instead have given my money to some relief agency that could have prevented some deaths from starvation, I am morally responsible for those deaths. The objection that I didn't intend for anyone to die is irrelevant. If I speed though an intersection and, as a result, kill a pedestrian, I am morally responsible for that death whether I intended it or not.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Us being one of the richest countries in the world you'd think we'd take those poor male babies and ship them to a poor country where people are starving for food. This could become a future 'help to feed the children' organization project.

How many baby chickens are culled a year? Billions that could have went for starving people!!!

Where would these starving people get the all the feed to raise up all these little males? These are egg layer hatchery chicks without great foraging skills. The feed ground and given to the chicks would be a waste of a valuable resource. These sex-link males would not become a decent meat bird, and it would be horribly inefficient use of grain to try and do so. BTW, there are billions of chickens in subsaharan Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.

I share your passion for world hunger, but sending these chicks isn't a viable solution.

 

[annabell254]

I dont think so! Have you ever been starving??? I think if all I had was a small, tough roo to eat I would be thrilled to eat it rather than nothing and starving to death! not to mention that all of my roo's always forage very well, I've never had a chicken that did not do that well...and we are talking about all chicken breed roo's being culled, not just sex link...even my Cornish crosses are excellent foragers...despite what everyone says, they are active as well...If all they have to feed them self is foraging then they will do it, or die, and I'm sure a starving person would eat it regardless of size...they would probably eat the chicks in a stew if they had the option...I think world hunger is a very good idea for these roo's...BRAVO

lets make it happen!

 

[Red Barn Farms]

Where would these starving people get the all the feed to raise up all these little males? These are egg layer hatchery chicks without great foraging skills. The feed ground and given to the chicks would be a waste of a valuable resource. These sex-link males would not become a decent meat bird, and it would be horribly inefficient use of grain to try and do so. BTW, there are billions of chickens in subsaharan Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.

I share your passion for world hunger, but sending these chicks isn't a viable solution.

That's a good point you bring up too! It's just a project all the world leaders could look into. A world project so to speak.

The Department of Agriculture estimated Wednesday that farmers have 206 million more bushels of surplus corn on hand at the start of this year's harvest. That means farmers will have 866 million bushels of corn on hand at the end of next summer, which is higher than last month's forecast of 672 million bushels.

http://news.yahoo.com/bigger-corn-surplus-could-slow-food-inflation-131620332.html

 

[Fred's Hens]

Getting chicks, in most the world, is not a problem. As it isn't here either. Feeding them is the problem.
Would day old chicks, hatched in Alabama, survive the transport to some foreign land, in any case?
None of this is realistic and none of it is sustainable.


Teaching and encouraging sustainable, small scale agriculture is a real solution.

 

[Red Barn Farms]

I dont think so! Have you ever been starving??? I think if all I had was a small, tough roo to eat I would be thrilled to eat it rather than nothing and starving to death! not to mention that all of my roo's always forage very well, I've never had a chicken that did not do that well...and we are talking about all chicken breed roo's being culled, not just sex link...even my Cornish crosses are excellent foragers...despite what everyone says, they are active as well...If all they have to feed them self is foraging then they will do it, or die, and I'm sure a starving person would eat it regardless of size...they would probably eat the chicks in a stew if they had the option...I think world hunger is a very good idea for these roo's...BRAVO

lets make it happen!

there are exactly 2,948,204 breeds of chickens in the world. I'm not sure from these how many breeds are sold from hatcheries but this does not just include sex-linked that are being culled.