Well, she has zero issue with layers, but meaties is relativley new to her. We always culled roosters and hens that stopped laying so the entire process is knwn to her and she takes it as part of life on the farm so to speak.
The meaties (true meaties) had her complaining about every aspect until this past week. We were on a mini vacation and there were tons of chicken farms in the area so I started pointing out to her the housing etc. Some of the barns were huge and she was still arguing about the mess, extra work they involve etc. So sitting at a construction zone, a semi pulls along side and it was filled with crate after crate of meat birds. We sat beside it for 5 minutes or so and when traffic finally cleared she turned and exclaimed that she would rather eat one of ours then what was on the truck! She noticed how dingy they were and remarked on how our CX were clean and healthy looking compared to the slaughter bound birds.
When we got home, she looked at me from across the run and asked how many meaties I had ordered for the fall batch and exclaimed I should have doubled it LOL!
The meaties (true meaties) had her complaining about every aspect until this past week. We were on a mini vacation and there were tons of chicken farms in the area so I started pointing out to her the housing etc. Some of the barns were huge and she was still arguing about the mess, extra work they involve etc. So sitting at a construction zone, a semi pulls along side and it was filled with crate after crate of meat birds. We sat beside it for 5 minutes or so and when traffic finally cleared she turned and exclaimed that she would rather eat one of ours then what was on the truck! She noticed how dingy they were and remarked on how our CX were clean and healthy looking compared to the slaughter bound birds.
When we got home, she looked at me from across the run and asked how many meaties I had ordered for the fall batch and exclaimed I should have doubled it LOL!
