Would/do you kill a chicken to eat?

[Cetawin]

Yes I have and will again. I will state that this does not aply to my layers. My girls are my pets. Meat birds get names too but moer along the likes of "Fried" "BBQ" "on a stick" "Pot Pie"

 

[wings]

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Do you each chicken from the grocery store?

I think it depends on how you see your chickens: as pets, food, or both.

 

[wings]

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I think I will eat my hens once they stop laying. I'll miss them, but they lived a good life and were loved.

 

[wings]

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Oh, I wasn't offended and didn't mean to sound like I was, and you just made a very important point.

I consider my chickens a pet just like my cat or dog. In fact, my chickens ACT like my cats and dogs!!! LOL Meat birds would be totallly different. It is the oens I have babied and actually made family members I could NEVER eat.

Thanks for keeping things civil. We can have a polite debate.

 

[wings]

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As long as you're a vegetarian, I have no problem with you not eating your chickens. It makes me sort of mad when people call eating their own chickens mean, but readily talk about delicious chicken wings.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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Do you each chicken from the grocery store?

I think it depends on how you see your chickens: as pets, food, or both.

Ummmm.......well, I OBVIOUSLY eat chicken as I said I want to raise meat birds (chicken, duck, and turkey). I DO try not to eat store bought meat of any kind because of the horrors of the meat industry. Haven't purchased meat from a store in a long time, in fact. I am not one of these people who wants my meat neatly packaged and not looking like a dead animal....I will happily process any sort of meat, and have many times. I simpy said I would refuse to eat my LAYERS which are my pets.

 

[wings]

WalkingWolf said:

I plan on eating some of my flock, excess roos, meat birds, and packing peanuts. And I do name my birds hold them and they follow me and jump up to be picked up. I want the birds that go to my table to have the best quality of life possible. Personally I would think it would make for healthier birds and then healthier food. BTW all packing peanuts and meat birds are named "Stew".

Now my DW does not feel the same way as me, she can't understand how I can love a animal and then eat it. But to me it is much better then the if not sometimes cruel life that commercial birds live. I spent my summers on the family farm as a youth I guess I am used to it.

Chickens were bred for food, now I do not see how making their life enjoyable while they are alive wrong. Many farmers raise cows for milk and meat. And a lot of those small farmers name their cows. Prize cows that are raised lovingly are auctioned off for slaughter at most fairs.


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[wings]

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What about when your layers stop laying?

 

[Heritage - Acres]

Yes, I would and have done so and will do again.
Of course we do Cornish Rocks every year, but I do process and eat extra roos we end up with.
I have not process any of our laying hens, because they are only year old or younger, but when that time comes, they will also be used in stew,broth, chicken and dumplings and fried or bakes.
We treat our birds really good (could say we spoil them) but they have a purpose eggs and meat.

 

[big greg barker]

I do dispatch and eat my own. They kinda object to being eaten before the dispatching.......... ;-)