Would/do you kill a chicken to eat?

[Chickapooh23]

The first time was horrible. The second time was easier. The third is right around the corner.

 

[eaganchickens]

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Sick!

 

[Beekissed]

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Sick!

Amen to that, Potterwatch! This is why its handy to have big dogs!

I'd even tan the hides...nothing would go to waste!

 

[ninjapoodles]

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Sick!

Amen to that, Potterwatch! This is why its handy to have big dogs!

I'd even tan the hides...nothing would go to waste!

I am reading this thread to my dogs. They've been getting pretty uppity lately.

 

[Beekissed]

Poodle-skin rugs would be very soft to sink one's toes into, don't you think?

 

[PotterWatch]

 

[AngieChick]

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OOoh, don't give them haircuts for awhile and you can have some nice spinning fiber there. They could feed and clothe you!

I love my birds, dogs and cat. I doubt I will ever be in a position where I need to make those hard choices.

I love my girls, but I raised them as pets and they will live out their lives with me, however long that is. In years, when I will inevitably have zillions of chickens (you know how it happens, start with one end with 200) I may not be as emotionally attached to all of them, there may just be some that are my favorites.

I also think its fine for those who have a different relationship with their birds, to each his own.

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

I wouldn't eat any of my chooks. Pets, for that sake, and also all named. I really wouldn't like to imagine myself calling, "Hey, we're eating Joey tonight!" And if a roo doesn't work out at our place, the neighbor gets him for free an he chooses to do what he may with him. But he has to promise to keep his mouth shut. I don't want to know who tasted good and who was a little dry, etc...For the most part, though, pets. I wouldn't eat the family cat. I wouldn't eat the chooks. I'd like to think that my fowl have the best life, and maybe someday, the longest.

Mom's a veg. and dad doesn't want to upset ayone, so I'm really not alone. I do eat chickens, so long as they weren't mine and I don't know who's they were. Organic meat, though, because I WOULD like to know where it's coming from.

 

[wings]

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So you are okay eating chicken, even if you know that it probably lived a horrible, unhealthy life?

 

[Beekissed]

As I read these posts, it seems to matter if the chicken had a name or was ever part of someone's flock whether it is, or would be considered, as a pet.

Now, if it comes from somewhere else, or if it was a meat bird without a name, it seems to be food.

Name= pet
Ownership = pet
Ownership w/ distinction of being a laying hen = pet

No name=food
Someone else's chicken = food
Meat chicken=food

Sounds like some chickens just get lucky and some drew the short straw of destiny!

Odd, isn't it, what little things determine how people think.

They are all chickens but some deserve pet status while others are designated as food.... but they are still pretty, fluffy chickens somewhere, just as appealing as the ones in our yards. Just as quirky, funny, and cute. But they are still food to those who feel like only their chickens shouldn't be food. Funny thing, isn't it?