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the foot said:
I have found that I can't equate keeping livestock (chickens in this instance) with keeping pets like dogs or cats.  First of all, they die.  Chickens have all sorts of hindrances to survival; for example, today a red tailed hawk killed a couple of my free ranging birds.  Keep your birds as you see fit and love them for what they are, a very important form of livestock.

A lot of my poultry friends want to make pets out of these birds, but they are not pets, they are livestock.
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I'll jump on board here.. It's not that I don't care for my birds- I care just as much as the next gal, but I just am not *able* to think of them as pets. Too much going on, too- I don't know, just can't do it. Makes for far less drama in my life!
 
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ChickAdee317 said:
I ate a couple of eggs and they are DELISH but I dont even want to eat the eggs thats why I wany to breed. I only have 2 laying chickens one is broody what would be the point to sell one carton of small eggs every 12 days? (My cochin lays every other day it seems untill the end of her clutchI might see two eggs in one day but that would be alot of waiting to sell some eggs) I suppose when I run out of store bought eggs (I buy 5 dozen a month the big box) I might eat the ones I pull from my frizzle but really I dont want to. Am I weird?
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I felt a bit weird too the first time I ate eggs from my own chickens. After reading about the poor hens kept for commercial egg laying I don't have a problem with it anymore! I used up the last of my "store bought eggs" and knowing that the poor young hens that produced those beautiful eggs would ALL be killed at a year and a half or so, after living horrid lives, makes me prefer to eat eggs from my own chickens.

I was buying the egglands best fancy brown eggs and actually contacted one of their GA egg farms to ask if adopting a retiring laying hen or two was possible (they "retire" them young and their eggs are gorgeous). The man told me "you don't want these hens" which told me they were likely in bad shape by the time their service was done, then said that no he couldn't do it, when the "houses are taken down" there is no provision for adopting any hens, and he couldn't do it unless he could get approval from corporate which wasn't going to happen.

That sort of drove in the point, I feel yucky eating store bought eggs now but feel good eating home produced eggs because I know my chickens are happy and busy, and every time I collect eggs i say "Oh thank you for such beautiful eggs!" Sounds silly to some, and the chickens don't care about being thanked, but it shows an appreciation for what they produce.

If you think about it like I do you will PREFER your own eggs.
 
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@the foot if you check the department of Agriculture, chickens, ducks, turkeys, quail, pheasants, etc are not livestock. Please educate yourself before you go on a forum, thread, or any social media spouting an opinion. I apologize if I sound like a jerk but I'm a bit tired of judgemental people. I catch a lot of crap for raising rabbits, chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese for meat. No, my animals are not pets. But, they are well taken care of, some might say spoiled. They are handled daily by myself and my children. I allow other people to come pet and play with the baby critters.
So please, have respect for others. I don't come on here and blast anyone for their choices or beliefs and I expect the same from everyone else.
 
ChickAdee317 said:
I ate a couple of eggs and they are DELISH but I dont even want to eat the eggs thats why I wany to breed. I only have 2 laying chickens one is broody what would be the point to sell one carton of small eggs every 12 days? (My cochin lays every other day it seems untill the end of her clutchI might see two eggs in one day but that would be alot of waiting to sell some eggs) I suppose when I run out of store bought eggs (I buy 5 dozen a month the big box) I might eat the ones I pull from my frizzle but really I dont want to. Am I weird?
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Of course you're weird... you're a member of a chicken forum.

Flowerbh said:
At the airport getting ready to go to Alaska! Will miss my chickens! Oh, and my husband! Lol. But seriously, am so thankful for him to be tAking care of the homefront while I am gone!
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HEY! I don't see the "and Robo" after that "will miss" part. I see you're jumping on the "pick on robo" train. Just for that I'm going to get a speckled sussex pullet.
 
RoboDuck said:
Of course you're weird... you're a member of a chicken forum.

HEY!  I don't see the "and Robo" after that "will miss" part.  I see you're jumping on the "pick on robo" train.  Just for that I'm going to get a speckled sussex pullet.
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Meany! Or, did you mean to get one just to give it to me??? :)
 

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