Why do you break a broody hen?

[JennaLynn122]

Some just want for pets, like me. I like creating color mixes with my chickens, and just because it's a "poor example" doesn't mean it isn't a good chicken.

I have mix breeds too. Would i sell them as anything but pet quality? No. But the thing is. I do sell them as pets and hatching eggs for backyard layers. I don't see anything wrong with it but I do see the point if I was a breeder, esspecially for show or breeding quality birds.

 

[blucoondawg]

Well if some want mutts for pets then they can go get them elsewhere I guess, you have to realize a chicken is livestock, you can keep them as a pet if you like, but the normally accepted husbandry practices for raising livestock are far different than what is viewed as acceptable in raising dogs and cats, some people cant accept the fact that culling is necessary to keep good lines going and to eliminate animals with health issues etc. If it weren't for people being responsible in this respect many breeds would have gone extinct long ago.

 

[JennaLynn122]

Well if some want mutts for pets then they can go get them elsewhere I guess, you have to realize a chicken is livestock, you can keep them as a pet if you like, but the normally accepted husbandry practices for raising livestock are far different than what is viewed as acceptable in raising dogs and cats, some people cant accept the fact that culling is necessary to keep good lines going and to eliminate animals with health issues etc. If it weren't for people being responsible in this respect many breeds would have gone extinct long ago.

i didnt say that culling wasn't necessary sometimes. Im just saying that we all have our own veiw on breeds. And though I do sell mine as mixed I respect pure breeds to but in all fairness alot of breeds of chicken are due to crossing.

I'd also like to add that I dont sell just to sell. I sell to people I know that would be owning them for a backyard flock for laying. What I sell for profit is eggs for eating.

 

[blucoondawg]

i didnt say that culling wasn't necessary sometimes. Im just saying that we all have our own veiw on breeds. And though I do sell mine as mixed I respect pure breeds to but in all fairness alot of breeds of chicken are due to crossing.

I'd also like to add that I dont sell just to sell. I sell to people I know that would be owning them for a backyard flock for laying. What I sell for profit is eggs for eating.

My post wasn't in response to your post, should have quoted, sorry

 

[JennaLynn122]

My post wasn't in response to your post, should have quoted, sorry

oh its okay.

 

[Cebarmlds]

I don't want to start anything but don't you think it's funny that it's ok to keep animal breeds pure but if you were to talk about keeping human breeds pure it would be a horrible thing?

 

[JennaLynn122]

I don't want to start anything but don't you think it's funny that it's ok to keep animal breeds pure but if you were to talk about keeping human breeds pure it would be a horrible thing?

It is kind of ironic that way huh? My view is that a chicken is a chicken. All of the do the same thing. They lay eggs and either raise them or we take them and incubate or eat and eventually they die or are harvested for meat. I understand that alot of breeds are more ideal as pure and I wouldn't want to see them be bred out of existence but at the same time. Its basically food for us.

 

[GD91]

let the broody raise her chicks, and I don't mean to get all preachy, but if you aren't killing the chicks for food, why don't you rehome them? The chicks you needlessly kill for population control or unwanted traits can be rehomed. The ones you kill for flesh I can leave you alone on, but, why kill chicks for population control and unwanted traits when you can rehome them? Just wondering, not gonna get preachy.

People..... People.....

Its a fair question.

Actually we do eat the birds we cull. What I meant when I said we select certain traits is I.e a good layer or a good meaty bird, is that the bird then is not selected for eating so It can pass its traits on to the next generation. And so on. A lot of people do this.

We have never killed a bird just for the sake of population control or anything like that. Its always for eating purposes. I could not afford to waste a bird like that & I'm sure you would all agree it would be very mean & wasteful for someone to do that.

 

[GD91]

It is kind of ironic that way huh? My view is that a chicken is a chicken. All of the do the same thing. They lay eggs and either raise them or we take them and incubate or eat and eventually they die or are harvested for meat. I understand that alot of breeds are more ideal as pure and I wouldn't want to see them be bred out of existence but at the same time. Its basically food for us.

I am in agreement.
We were considering cornish X's, but thought the results were a bit.... well.... too much

& seemed very unnatural.
I wanted a humane flock that would be happy & not die from health issues at 12 weeks.

Again considered a good laying breed like the RIR or Warren breed, but I thought they would be too noisy in a town.
Happy with my quiet mutt flock, they produce lots of eggs & enough meat to per carcass to feed us all. Even our Roo is pretty quiet. In a town that is important.

 

[JennaLynn122]

People..... People.....

Its a fair question.

Actually we do eat the birds we cull. What I meant when I said we select certain traits is I.e a good layer or a good meaty bird, is that the bird then is not selected for eating so It can pass its traits on to the next generation. And so on. A lot of people do this.

We have never killed a bird just for the sake of population control or anything like that. Its always for eating purposes. I could not afford to waste a bird like that & I'm sure you would all agree it would be very mean & wasteful for someone to do that.

I took it how it was meant. I wouldnt think someone would just kill the for the heck of it or population control without a use. If I had a flock that produced enough to cull my family would be happy about it. We eat alot of chicken because my kids are very picky about the types of meat they eat and chicken is one that i can cook with more flavor/spice options.