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Anonymous wrote:LOL! Not sure the kill-what-you-eat crowd are Wiccan. But they sure have a take-no-prisoners, shoot first and ask questions later, persona on this thread.

Wiccan? Uh, try American farmers.

There is no rule that says you have to kill your own food. But if the notion is so upsetting, to either you or your kids, then you really are a hypocrite. You can't bear to eat a creature you knew, but as long as it is nameless and faceless and packaged for you, it's fine. You don't see what's wrong with that?

Anonymous wrote:LOL! Not sure the kill-what-you-eat crowd are Wiccan. But they sure have a take-no-prisoners, shoot first and ask questions later, persona on this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Just make sure you're OK dealing with chicken end-of-life issues, and that you know what you'll say to your kids. Alternatively, make sure you're OK with caring for some fairly messy creatures who aren't smart enough to make good pets, for a number of years after they stop laying. Chickens only lay eggs for the first few years of their lives.

Chicken end of life issues: dinner. Kids have seen and heard that for millennia.

Holy crap, we can't do anything anymore.

Thanks for the trenchant observations, so original. Assuming you get chickens, would you kill Maggie after she stops laying and serve her to your kids?

Uh, yes. If I eat meat, I ought to own up to where it comes from and kids are no different. If you can't handle that, you should be a vegetarian.

So do you walk the talk and hunt your dinner down on occasion? Or do you just talk about it on DCUM?

You are a wiredo.

I take my children to local farms, we get our meat from local farms. My children see the animals that will go to slaughter. My children know where our food comes from. I'm teaching my children to be reverant to the animals who are sacrificed so we may eat meat. If I lived on property that was zoned for AG, I would own some backyard chickens, but we don't. I would also slaughter the hens and make excellent chicken broth out of the meat. I would certainly feed Maggie to my family under full disclosure.

My family does not eat meat that does not come from animals that have been treated humanely, my children fully understand this. Additionally, I have taken my children to family funerals, they are fully aware of the circle of life.

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You are a wiredo.

I take my children to local farms, we get our meat from local farms. My children see the animals that will go to slaughter. My children know where our food comes from. I'm teaching my children to be reverant to the animals who are sacrificed so we may eat meat. If I llso slaughter the hens and make excellent chicken broth out of the meat. I would certainly feed Maggie to my family under full disclosure.ived on property that was zoned for AG, I would own some backyard chickens, but we don't. I would a

My family does not eat meat that does not come from animals that have been treated humanely, my children fully understand this. Additionally, I have taken my children to family funerals, they are fully aware of the circle of life.

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You are a wiredo.

I take my children to local farms, we get our meat from local farms. My children see the animals that will go to slaughter. My children know where our food comes from. I'm teaching my children to be reverant to the animals who are sacrificed so we may eat meat. If I lived on property that was zoned for AG, I would own some backyard chickens, but we don't. I would also slaughter the hens and make excellent chicken broth out of the meat. I would certainly feed Maggie to my family under full disclosure.

My family does not eat meat that does not come from animals that have been treated humanely, my children fully understand this. Additionally, I have taken my children to family funerals, they are fully aware of the circle of life.

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Anonymous wrote:Just make sure you're OK dealing with chicken end-of-life issues, and that you know what you'll say to your kids. Alternatively, make sure you're OK with caring for some fairly messy creatures who aren't smart enough to make good pets, for a number of years after they stop laying. Chickens only lay eggs for the first few years of their lives.

Chicken end of life issues: dinner. Kids have seen and heard that for millennia.

Holy crap, we can't do anything anymore.

Thanks for the trenchant observations, so original. Assuming you get chickens, would you kill Maggie after she stops laying and serve her to your kids?

Uh, yes. If I eat meat, I ought to own up to where it comes from and kids are no different. If you can't handle that, you should be a vegetarian.

So do you walk the talk and hunt your dinner down on occasion? Or do you just talk about it on DCUM?

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Anonymous wrote:Just make sure you're OK dealing with chicken end-of-life issues, and that you know what you'll say to your kids. Alternatively, make sure you're OK with caring for some fairly messy creatures who aren't smart enough to make good pets, for a number of years after they stop laying. Chickens only lay eggs for the first few years of their lives.

Chicken end of life issues: dinner. Kids have seen and heard that for millennia.

Holy crap, we can't do anything anymore.

Thanks for the trenchant observations, so original. Assuming you get chickens, would you kill Maggie after she stops laying and serve her to your kids?

Uh, yes. If I eat meat, I ought to own up to where it comes from and kids are no different. If you can't handle that, you should be a vegetarian.

So do you walk the talk and hunt your dinner down on occasion? Or do you just talk about it on DCUM?

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Anonymous wrote:Don't chickens draw rats?

Chicken feed will attract rodents.

Don't they also attract mountain lions, foxes and other wild predators?

Maybe but (a) mountain lions are really unlikely here, and (b) you won't see these predators. They get in, take your chickens, and get out. Ask any farmer, they would love to shoot them but it's rare to encounter them.

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Anonymous wrote:Just make sure you're OK dealing with chicken end-of-life issues, and that you know what you'll say to your kids. Alternatively, make sure you're OK with caring for some fairly messy creatures who aren't smart enough to make good pets, for a number of years after they stop laying. Chickens only lay eggs for the first few years of their lives.

Chicken end of life issues: dinner. Kids have seen and heard that for millennia.

Holy crap, we can't do anything anymore.

Thanks for the trenchant observations, so original. Assuming you get chickens, would you kill Maggie after she stops laying and serve her to your kids?

Uh, yes. If I eat meat, I ought to own up to where it comes from and kids are no different. If you can't handle that, you should be a vegetarian.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that chickens are effing dumb. But that makes them wicked fun to terrorize.

In my late 20's, I moved to a tropical island that was overrun with feral chickens. My next-door neighbor would feed them. I loved pulling in the drive and seeing them in my yard. I would run at them while flapping my arms and corner them as they tried to ram their fat bodies through the holes in a chain-link fence. Once I chased a chicken into the path of an oncoming car driven by a speeding teen.

Now I have sons. Oh the fun we'd have if our neighbors started raising chickens.

Are you a dog who can type, and you just got access to your master's computer???

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I literally laughed so hard at this. Thank you PP!

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Anonymous wrote:Just make sure you're OK dealing with chicken end-of-life issues, and that you know what you'll say to your kids. Alternatively, make sure you're OK with caring for some fairly messy creatures who aren't smart enough to make good pets, for a number of years after they stop laying. Chickens only lay eggs for the first few years of their lives.

Chicken end of life issues: dinner. Kids have seen and heard that for millennia.

Holy crap, we can't do anything anymore.

Thanks for the trenchant observations, so original. Assuming you get chickens, would you kill Maggie after she stops laying and serve her to your kids?