Again, we will disagree. Anytime a living creature is thought of as a byproduct, we are in a sad place. Finding a use for their bodies is not the same thing as being useful. Let's be honest if it is simply the need for fertilizer, lets use the egg before it hatches. Before it is a life.
Feeding them for 5 months is giving them a life, albeit a short one, but a good one. If the cost was the only matter to me of my food, I would not raise a garden, or a hog. I would not by a cow from a farm where they are pastured. I would by them from a factory farm through
Walmart or some other retailer. I an not naïve enough to think I make one iota of difference to the world or economy as a whole, but I make my segment, my immediate area a better place.
Regardless of what the rest of the world does I will not kill one day old chicks. To me it is similar to the killing of girl babies in China, they are a byproduct. I am not equating humans to chicks, I am saying it is on the same road. Killing the unwanted for vanity.
Personally, I think a place that does not allow roosters is not a place to live. I have lived in such places and will never be there again. Listening to some yappy little dog, but not being able to hear the beautiful song of a rooster.
As far as my 1,000 for a bag of fertilizer. If a new chick weighs 1.5 ounces, it would take 1,200 to fill a bag.
I would have no problem selling a chick as feed for a reptile, or pet. I very well understand the circle of life. Chickens happen to be on one of the lower rungs of the food chain. That does not mean to me, I can just ignore they are one of God's creatures. I will not kill it without a purpose. I am also quite aware of the hypocrisy you can find in that view when I kill a mosquito. I can live with that.
Can you imagine the out cry if a kennel killed all female pups the day they were born? Because Males sell better. ( I have no idea if boy or girl dog sells better, just using it as an example people would protest as it is a similar comparison.)
I am going to not respond to anything more on this from you, We will simply disagree. We are getting way into tangents and too far down a rabbit hole for this thread. If you wanted to start another thread for this, I would be interested in continuing to debate it there.
I want to thank you for your good debate on this. I enjoy the way you conducted it without letting me or yourself take it to a low disrespectful level.
I am still interested on others reasons for wanting a auto sexing white sport.
Thanks MeepBeep! Have a good one.
PS..
This paragraph is a great argument I really have no response for:
We also have to look at the scope of the chicken industry and be realistic, about the bigger picture... In the US we produce about 50 billion eggs a year for human consumption, if we assume 350 eggs a bird per year, that means there are approximately 143 million commercial laying hens, if we assume a 50/50 sex split at hatch that means there are 143 million unwanted roosters hatched each year give or take, we could shave that down as hens are not rotated in and out every year but there are loses every year as well as incidentals like backyard chickens as well so it's probably not far off... Even if we split up them across all 50 states that would still be almost 3 million unwanted roosters per state, that is a lot unwanted birds... Now we all know how hard it is to get rid of even a single rooster at any age, so where is one to find homes for 143 million unwanted roosters that won't produce any viable return on investment even if they are given to a farmer for free?
However, I still do not have to embrace or partake of this disgusting (in my mind) practice.
