Comments on: Weighing chickens

By: Chicken House

Chicken House — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:27:18 +0000

Raising chickens is quite tough. You have to take good care of them very well and feed them. You have to spend a lot of time with them as well. And I think parting with them is also tough since you have been with them for quite some time.

By: Guinea Pig

Guinea Pig — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:30:53 +0000

I think raising chickens would be fun as well. I like to try this one as hobby and afterwards maybe I can expand this one and have my own chicken farm. However, there are some factor holding me down in raising chickens and that is the location. Money and funds to start would not be a problem however my main concern is where to raise the chickens. It is hard finding good locations for your farm nowadays.

By: Digestion

Digestion — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:23:17 +0000

This one sure is an interesting write-up that the author came up. Interesting in a sense that he/she actually has this kind of sentiments towards the chickens that he/she raised which will eventually become food. He/ she has one fascinating thought at hand, talking to the chickens in some occasions and next thing you know they’re off to be sold.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:55:14 +0000

I think this kind of sentimental feeling that you have with the chicken’s you raise are similar with the feelings/reason why vegetarians dislike eating meat. I think they feel compassion and sympathy for the “food”/animals since they have LIFE even before their future is deemed to be doom.

By: lynn

lynn — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:02:56 +0000

To the last comment from bmtea.
I have my own chickens whom I love and care for. Yes, I do slaughter them and eat them but I do it in a way that I believe is humane and compassionate. Humans are evolutionarily programmed to eat meat, we are omnivores by nature and, in many ways, it’s conducive to human health, but because I don’t want to eat meat from battery farms, I raise my own. Shame on you for going after a small farmer and not venting your frustration and gearing your energy towards the million other circumstances in which chickens are raised in the most cruel conditions under which their only hope is to go to slaughter.

By: JoeFromVT

JoeFromVT — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:48:01 +0000

Just found the blog so I haven’t been through it all, but so far I like it. We just processed 110 chickens last Thursday. These birds along with the pigs help feed my family of 5 plus a dozen other families of varying sizes. My family does the processing for all our birds, turkeys will come next week and will be done in November. I do send our pigs out to be processed, I am very particular about who does my animals because I want them treated with the utmost respect. All our animals are on pasture or wooded areas. The pigs have ½ acre of woods to root in. What some folks who commented above don’t understand is most small farmers do truly care about the animals welfare; it is the reason I do it still. I wouldn’t buy a puppy from a puppy mill, how can I buy pork raised in worse conditions and feed it to my kids? The hardest day isn’t working in the glaring hot sun, or cold rain or snow, the hardest day it is always the last day.

Keep up the good work… maybe I should start a blog too… any advice?

By: Scales Guy

Scales Guy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:29:22 +0000

Sorry for that last strange looking post. I was trying to point you to a scale like the one in the picture you can find here:
http://internetscales.com/235semeha.html
But the digital one is here:
http://internetscales.com/eldihasc.html

By: Scales Guy

Scales Guy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:27:09 +0000

Confession, I used to raise 30,000 laying hens but have turned from my old ways and prefer the natural approach now. As to what I do now... If you need hanging scales like the one shown go here. But if you really want to upgrade and go digital go here.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:07:57 +0000

Damn that a fat ass cock

By: Lakeview

Lakeview — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:44:39 +0000

I love this blog!! We will be getting 10 “Yard Hens” this spring. We have not had chickens in a few years but are looking forward to this. At the end of their best laying years, they will be sent to a processor and put in the freezer. I am sure that I will be sad but that is the way of things. I will then look forward to the new chicks. If I am lucky, I will get a “setter” in my first batch. I was raised on a farm and raised my kids on a mini farm. I think it’s a good idea for kids to know the source of their food and to enjoy the better taste of your own farm products whether it be from meat or veg.