Posted on 12/21/2007 3:21:38 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
Best to raise your chicksns indoors, or, if you can't, eat those eggs and forget about it.
Dare I say it to the monks? “Chickens!”
PETA is a communist front environmentalist wacko group!”
The best part of chicken eggs is that they are a very cheap source of protein. It is a staple for many retired folks.
The young parents out there better be careful how much they support this kind of action on the part of PETA. ALL ordinary vaccines are based on egg cultures.
Geee- a rising population of new babies and fewer sources for all the vaccines they are required to have.
Thank PETA for all their good work!!!/sarc
Into the bank, which at six bucks a hen comes to $168,000.00.”
You might pay $6 at the grocery store, but if you think the chicken grower gets $6, you are sadly mistaken.
Having stated that I will also state that putting a chicken in a cage that is so small that it can’t stand up or turn around and leaving it there until it is ready to die is an abomination.
Hold it there, bunky. I worked as payroll supervisor for one of the largest egg suppliers west of the MNississippi. I have toured equally large locations where the birds were kept, fed, and where they produced their eggs. None of the birds I saw were in spaces so tight that it matched what you are describing. Theey do NOT live in this space until they die-—they are rotated out when their production falls off, which a normal life cycle of a chicken. Then they are sold to the soup companies.
Someone has sorely misinformed you and completely overblew the facts.
I was raised on a dairy farm. Next thing, PETA will be complaining that milking a cow is invasion of the cow’s privacy because the machines are placed on the cow teats!!!!
Grow up people!!!
This sort of action by PETA is why we have RICO statutes.
Putting this as politely and delicately as possible, BS. Like all livestock, chickens require appropriate shelter in cold weather. I do not recall that anybody ever heard of bird flu or burying chickens with backhoes until they began to be raised in industrial facilities a few years ago. I’ve raised several chickens and have a vague idea of what I speak.
BTW, the reason you never heard of these things until the industrial production of chickens began was, alas, the industrial style was in vogue even back a couple of centuries ago.
Just look at the model chicken coop recommended for the family farm by USDA. My grandfather's held over a thousand chickens.
We are only arguing the size of the cage. The chicken is still in a small wire enclosure it’s entire life. It is removed only to go to the soup company, in other words when it dies. Would you treat a dog that way?
And by the way, how did you know my name is Bunky?
So far, my chickens have died of broken necks when I get ready to eat them, not sure where you are getting all this pandemic stuff. The USDA wasn’t around 200 years ago. Tell me a little more about your grandfather’s chicken house. Did it have individual cages, was there an outside run, how were the birds fed and watered? I’ve never raised more than a household size flock.
The value of a good laying hen is six bucks.
Welcome to my world, you weird son-of-a-gun!
I don't care who you are - that's funny!
Damn near cost me a keyboard ............. FRegards
At night they'd go into the house. In the morning they'd wake up and go outside for feeding.
Sometimes the chickens in the chicken yard would be so thick my cousins and I would not be able to cross through to get to the main barns to play in the hay or ride the horses.
Great Grandpa's chickens lived in an inbetween world ~ industrial in scope, but able to walk around and go in and out.
They laid vast numbers of eggs.
So in fact, they were able to follow the normal instincts of ground dwelling birds and act like chickens. Varied, mostly natural diet from bugs, worms and grain in the large stock manure to suppliment the mostly whole grain chicken feed. Good tasting eggs, decent income for grand-dad and good nutrition for those who ate them. It bore no resemblence to todays egg factories and it would have given no basis for the PETA imbeciles to raise a stink.
I will stop at this point, I could write all day about the ills of our food system. Yes, we have plenty of cheap food, not much taste, not the best nutrition, and millions of obese people who eat sugar and fat because the normal food doesn’t satisfy. Poor nutrition also affects mental function, which helps keep the masses a little too dumb to figure it all out.
I grew up on a farm, still live there and have an MS in Agricultural Engineering, so I’m not a typical hippie freak. I am simply convinced that the USDA backed “get big or get out” policy starting in the 1950’s did amazing damage to our society as a whole.
:-)
BTW, the only eggs that taste right are BROWN EGGS. The reason is and always has been that they have a higher level of Omega 3, and some of us can taste that.
Omega 3 is good for you.
I had banty hens (and a flying fighting rooster) and we had small brown eggs every day. Then we got the ducks ~ nothing like 'em. One egg, a bushel of potatoes, a couple of pickles and you have a potato salad and a half!
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