Would/do you kill a chicken to eat?

[FaereChicken]

We did our first one the other week. It wasn't easy, but I'd do it again, probably earlier, for tenderness...

 

[hennypenny9]

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Do you eat chicken from the store?

Very very rarely, I do. Not so much lately. Later on in a post I mention that I haven't eaten chicken (other than when my mom bought it, once) in months. I honestly can't remember the last time I bought chicken from the store. And I have more of a problem with store bought chicken, then anyone raising them on a small scale for food. The food industry treats meat birds very badly, but I think everyone here that raises meat chickens at least gives them a decent life before they become dinner.

I know I'm being a big baby about it. It's my own fault for seeing chickens as pets. I don't see cows or pigs in the same way, at all. I've been around them on farms and they look at me, and I think "dinner." Not so with chickens. I see "scrambled eggs!" from them, LOL.

I'm looking into local farms that raise and slaughter on a small scale. I feel like a massive hypocrite, but thinking about killing one of the chickens I raised makes me want to cry. I'm working on it, but I doubt I'll ever be able to slaughter my own food. In the mean time, I have NO plans on getting chicken from the store. Maybe I'll be a whole one from a local farm, if I really crave chicken. (Which I honestly don't.)

 

[wings]

hennypenny9: We get our chicken from a local farm. We have a "subscription" to their goods. It helps us to have a clear consionce (how do you spell that) to know that our food lived a happy, healthy life.

We call our meat from the farm "happy meat"!

 

[Justino]

id never kill em if they were my pets but if i had a flock of broilers that i didnt spend time holding them i could do it

 

[weloveourchicks]

We have no plans to put em' on the table but if it meant my children not going hungry I'd do it in a second.

 

[chooniecat]

have 6 yo layers and can't get a lot more til current girls are gone so yeah, i will have to process them myself as i am basically poor(son going to college in fall). I consider it the KINDEST way for us to eat chicken because of the housing,transporting, slaughtering methods of commericial poultry/egg "farms" Haven't done one yet but wish me luck. haven't eaten chicken for 2 years.

 

[hennypenny9]

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I want to do this so badly, with all my meat, not only chicken. Unfortunately everything is on hold until the house I'm living in sells, and I move. (Out of the area, most likely 2 1/2 hours away)

I hate this weird state of uncertainly I'm in because I can't get a "subscription," and many places are subscription only. Also can't plant anything in the ground that I want to keep. Arg. Once I get settled permanently, be prepared for me to go nuts!

 

[mtnhomechick]

It's nothing to pay a local organic farmer $25 for a chicken. You bet I raise my own.

 

[wings]

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I want to do this so badly, with all my meat, not only chicken. Unfortunately everything is on hold until the house I'm living in sells, and I move. (Out of the area, most likely 2 1/2 hours away)

I hate this weird state of uncertainly I'm in because I can't get a "subscription," and many places are subscription only. Also can't plant anything in the ground that I want to keep. Arg. Once I get settled permanently, be prepared for me to go nuts!

We get all our meat "happily," and it's not as expensive as we thought it would be...

 

[Mom 2em All]

I cannot kill anything to eat it. I have no problem with someone else doing it- I just could not do it myself... our beef comes from my brother in laws farm, so does our pork. And we have the meat from five deer in our freezer from my hubbys hunt. However, my hens are my pets. We eat their eggs and spoil them wonderfully.
They are more for mental health than physical food.

Once they are old and no longer producing eggs, they shall remain my entertainment and continue to live their life here.

I told my husband I wouldnt mind raising up some meat birds, if we could send them somewhere to be processed, and I didnt name them or interact with them except for their basic needs. He wont process them because he says its too time consuming and messy.

If we had no food, we would be very much vegetarian.