Chickens are easy, I don’t name them or interact other than feeding. Although I did have trouble with the last female last year. Put her into the chicken holder and she managed to get out.
We do have 3 egg layers that are 8-9 now and couldnt eat them
Pigs, I interact daily, give them scratches and treats. We send them to an abittoir.
Everything dies eventually, at least I know they had a good life while it lasted.
We do have 3 egg layers that are 8-9 now and couldnt eat them
I’ve heard that kind of attachement to favorite animals from a couple of farmers. Perhaps this is psychologically similar to a teacher having a teachers pet while all others “move on”?
Pigs, I interact daily, give them scratches and treats. We send them to an abittoir.
Ah okay, so is your existentce is dependent on animal farming? So it’s like a “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”-kind of situation…
Everything dies eventually, at least I know they had a good life while it lasted.
It sounds like you really do care, but their existence is imo rather needlessly (and in some cases horrifically) cut short, no?
Maybe i’ve thought about this to much but I always ask myself: How old would domesticated animal get if they are not slaughtered and can I justify this choice by the imo neglible gains (not having to take as many supplements and the taste i am accustomed from my youth) I gets from a omnivorous diet?
Everything animal wise is for personal consumption. I am a small scale brewer so my grains get fed to all my animals.
Typically egg layers are slaughterd after 2 years, my 8 yr old hens still produce eggs. And yes I would consider them a pet at this stage.
Ive built automated egg laying coups for a semi large producer of eggs and I know how they are treated, 10 chickens in a 1.5’1.53, 3 rows high. No ability to walk. They also produce lower quality eggs
Yes all the animals we eat tend to have short lives but in my case longer than factory farmed animals (chickens 150-200 days vs 45)
Pigs get all the weeds from our garden, any leftovers from veggies to meats, the odd egg that breaks too
At one point we had 50 chickens and a mink got in and killed all but 5, none had been eaten, just killed for sport. That imo is needlessly killing.
Chickens are easy, I don’t name them or interact other than feeding. Although I did have trouble with the last female last year. Put her into the chicken holder and she managed to get out.
We do have 3 egg layers that are 8-9 now and couldnt eat them
Pigs, I interact daily, give them scratches and treats. We send them to an abittoir.
Everything dies eventually, at least I know they had a good life while it lasted.
I’ve heard that kind of attachement to favorite animals from a couple of farmers. Perhaps this is psychologically similar to a teacher having a teachers pet while all others “move on”?
Ah okay, so is your existentce is dependent on animal farming? So it’s like a “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”-kind of situation…
It sounds like you really do care, but their existence is imo rather needlessly (and in some cases horrifically) cut short, no? Maybe i’ve thought about this to much but I always ask myself: How old would domesticated animal get if they are not slaughtered and can I justify this choice by the imo neglible gains (not having to take as many supplements and the taste i am accustomed from my youth) I gets from a omnivorous diet?
Everything animal wise is for personal consumption. I am a small scale brewer so my grains get fed to all my animals.
Typically egg layers are slaughterd after 2 years, my 8 yr old hens still produce eggs. And yes I would consider them a pet at this stage. Ive built automated egg laying coups for a semi large producer of eggs and I know how they are treated, 10 chickens in a 1.5’1.53, 3 rows high. No ability to walk. They also produce lower quality eggs
Yes all the animals we eat tend to have short lives but in my case longer than factory farmed animals (chickens 150-200 days vs 45)
Pigs get all the weeds from our garden, any leftovers from veggies to meats, the odd egg that breaks too
At one point we had 50 chickens and a mink got in and killed all but 5, none had been eaten, just killed for sport. That imo is needlessly killing.