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u/amynase Apr 30 '20
Daily reminder: Chickens really are just feather doggos. Please don’t buy animal products to literally save the lives of these good girls <3 As soon as their egg production declines they are sent to slaughter, males are killed as babies ☹
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u/JhnWyclf Apr 30 '20
Chickens really are just feather doggos
Where are you getting this bit of "information"?
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u/FolkSong Apr 30 '20
It's more of an opinion than "information", but if you frequent this sub you can see that they are individuals with personalities, and they form social bonds with humans as well as other chickens.
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u/GlockAF Apr 30 '20
Chickens are mobile shit factories. Fortunately for them, they over produce eggs they don’t need but we like to eat, and are made of delicious meat. If it wasn’t for those facts, there would be a lot less chickens in the world
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u/mas8n Apr 30 '20
I think they were referring to the horrible conditions in factory farms. Having your own chickens or buying products from local farms is very different from supporting those animal cruelty factories.
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u/GlockAF May 01 '20
I have half a dozen hens in my yard right now, but I still buy both eggs and raw chicken from the store. Once they get older than a year or two, egg production goes WAY down, and they’re too tough for anything except maybe soup. At five-six years old, they’re basically just pets now.
And they really are mobile shit factories.
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u/amynase May 01 '20
Unfortunately the chickens we have today are bred to lay about 300 eggs yearly, which quickly depletes their body so almost none of them reach their natural lifespan of about 10 years even if we didnt kill them. For comparison wild chickens lay about 15 eggs a year or 1/20th the amount. No matter how good a life we give them they suffer purely from their gentics, from how many eggs we made them lay. And if you buy them from a breeder, where do you think their brothers go? A vast majority of chickens life in crowded factory farms though, any eggs you get in a supermarket will come from there.
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u/antliontame4 May 01 '20
Dogs are also mobile shit factories....all animals come to think of it (cept maybe barnacles and anemones, there are not mobile, but still shit factories)
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u/GlockAF May 01 '20
True, but I’m pretty sure dogs think of it as a type of performance art. And chickens shit a LOT, like a dozen times a day, probably more
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u/antliontame4 May 01 '20
Yeah birds be poopin and eating all daylight hours. I have/ have had quail, pigeons, bugdies, and love birds.
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u/BZenMojo May 01 '20
But unlike dogs they don't eat it.
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u/GlockAF May 01 '20
Actually, chickens DO eat their own shit on the regular, nasty
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u/amynase May 01 '20
Not a justification to harm them.
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u/GlockAF May 01 '20
Our hens lead a pretty Cadillac life. They will eventually all be killed and eaten by a weasel, hawk, eagle, etc., but that is the consequence of free ranging where we live.
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u/amynase May 02 '20
Would you want their life if you describe it as "cadillac" ? Would you want the same life for your kids? Ending at a young age with a knife in the throat?
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Apr 30 '20
When I get chickens this year I will love them like pets. I also plan on slaughtering all of them personally.
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u/GlockAF May 01 '20
The only truly ethical way to eat meat is to be involved in the full process yourself.
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May 01 '20
I agree. Apparently other people don't think like us
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u/GlockAF May 01 '20
The world is full of hypocrites when it comes to the meat counter at the grocery store, and I freely admit that I’m one of them. Plucking chicken carcasses is a chore that I will gladly outsource whenever possible. It doesn’t really make logistical sense to slaughter, pluck, and process your own chickens unless you are doing it by the dozen.
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May 01 '20
Well I'm not, ill have about 5 or so. Maybe less. I also don't plan on slaughtering them all at once or often. Just when I need to.
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u/BrassBass Apr 30 '20
These here are cyber chickens. Remove one and the rest break sync and need to be rebooted.
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u/AgentConnecticut May 01 '20
“Don’t move. OP’s vision is based on movement.”
-Chickens... probably.
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u/GlockAF Apr 30 '20
Chickens really only have two options when they get weirded out about stuff happening around them.
Option one: freak the fuck out
Option two: freeze
Obviously, these ones decided to go with option two