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Margi said:
Yeah she plans to butcher him. She raises her own food and butchers herself...We'll see if she can do to after hand raising him :)
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I couldn’t do that. Years ago a friend raised chickens for the first time, she was in tears when the day came to butcher them. And I’m not squeamish about buying and preparing odd cuts of meat but I could never butcher an animal I raised and treated like a pet.
But then some people are different I guess.
 
Yeah we would starve to death as pioneer women....or would we? 🤔
I give her props for being able to take care of her family--plus its all natural food. I wasn't real good cleaning fish when Rod and I would go camping/fishing...and I aint real squeamish compared to some ladies!
 
Margi said:
Yeah we would starve to death as pioneer women....or would we? 🤔
I give her props for being able to take care of her family--plus its all natural food. I wasn't real good cleaning fish when Rod and I would go camping/fishing...and I aint real squeamish compared to some ladies!
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Years ago there was a show on tv in Canada called Pioneer Quest. They had to spend a year living as a pioneer building their house and living off the land and hunting for their food, all without the aid of any technology and only using tools of the time. All for a payday of maybe $20,000 at the end. You couldn’t pay me enough to do that!
 
Sharon7 said:
Oh gosh no, I could not do that to an animal I had raised.
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My mom, raised on a farm, passed on her 'realistic' ideas on farm animals. LOVE my chickens to pieces, they have such individual personalities believe it or not. But as attached as I am, I have a philosophy of 'if you don't lay, you don't stay'.... we tossed this out the window for about 1 1/2 years for Dolly, our very opinionated, hysterical Delaware hen, but alas, as the biggest lady out there with the biggest appetite and not doing anything other than expressing her opinion every hour of daylight... well.....
 
Sandy in CT said:
My mom, raised on a farm, passed on her 'realistic' ideas on farm animals. LOVE my chickens to pieces, they have such individual personalities believe it or not. But as attached as I am, I have a philosophy of 'if you don't lay, you don't stay'.... we tossed this out the window for about 1 1/2 years for Dolly, our very opinionated, hysterical Delaware hen, but alas, as the biggest lady out there with the biggest appetite and not doing anything other than expressing her opinion every hour of daylight... well.....
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I can understand that…as long as I’m not the one taking care of that.
Funny though, I just picked up a cookbook (and ‘family compendium’ ) that was printed in 1892…it has a section on how to make a hen lay eggs. I’ll have to take a picture and share it with you Sandy…perhaps they’ll be helpful 😆
But then it’s also got tips for things like what to do if someone is having a convulsive fit…put them in hot water…as hot as they can handle without burning them, so I’m not sure how helpful the hen tips would be🤣
 
I think it would be impossible for me as well- once an animal trust you it would be a violation of that trust almost. But we all survive from activities of others that do that for us so we can't be hypocrites about it. I had a friend whose husband raises animals on a ma and pa farm and they treated their animal really well. Pigs were well fed and kept clean and were happy to see them etc. On the day one of them was to go over the rainbow bridge her husband would start the day with a shot of whiskey, pistol on the table then would go out and lead one to a different part of the barn and feed him his favorite- an apple- and as he ate he was terminated. He had a lot of great days and just one bad moment she said-- If all of our treatment of food animals were that good. I attended a lecture by Temple Grandin and she made the same points.. It is impractical for a large nation's food demands but we try to buy from small local farms that treat their animals well when we can- we pay a bit more but it helps us feel a little better. Too bad we are not all photosynthetic and had no need for all this nonsense.
 
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