Mother of many....baby chicks - Page 5

fdd2blk · #41 03-03-2008, 10:55 AM

they're so cute.

bwinn27 · #42 03-03-2008, 11:14 AM

you dont eat them do you? lol j/k

flowergurl · #43 03-03-2008, 11:18 AM

They look so soft and fluffy!...reminds me of easter.....have a friend who just got 1800 in...he raises organic free chickens so he bought quite a few.

kayasgarden · #44 03-03-2008, 11:25 AM

yea thats what i do flower gurl but within a restricted space because i have gardens mt chickens get into, its alot of work and organic food is harder to get but its worth it not eating tortured animals.

but yes bwinn just for us to eat

some will be pets mostly the ladies and the others............well you know

flowergurl · #45 03-03-2008, 11:30 AM

I think it is horrible how little chickens are kept all smushed into little cages, they never get to run around and be..well...chickens. Happy to hear you are raising happy chickens that have a little roaming room. Sounds like mama loves her baby chickens...even tho your going to eat em. I would raise some but I live in the city on four acres, we are allowed three domestic fowl per lot so I could have 12 total. Worried it would draw attention to my place so count on my free range chicken rancher friends
to keep me supplied.

kayasgarden · #46 03-03-2008, 12:23 PM

www.hsus.org/farm/camp/nbe/

yea i will raise my own if this is the alternative now just smushed in but stacked to shit on each other

flowergurl · #47 03-03-2008, 12:45 PM

You are a good chicken momma Kaya...lucky chickens...until mamma needs some Coq au vin.....lol....

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www.hsus.org/farm/camp/nbe/

yea i will raise my own if this is the alternative now just smushed in but stacked to shit on each other

email468 · #48 03-03-2008, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by flowergurl

You are a good chicken momma Kaya...lucky chickens...until mamma needs some Coq au vin.....lol....

i was wondering what i should have for dinner.... thanks!

Titania · #49 03-03-2008, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by kayasgarden

my baby chicks finaly arrived. What a crew!!! I ordered 40 and ended up getting like 120 cause the post office messed up. Alot of them didnt make it cause they got shipped on a holiday weekend and it took an extra day. the ones that made it are now strong and full of spunk and what a variety. My hubby had to build a bigger cage for them all, i must be crazy

Am I the only one that is shocked by that? You were sent live animals by post! As if they were some sort of inanimate object!? You go on to say "the ones that made it"... WTF! Like they're ship wreck survivors; they wouldn't be dead if they hadn't been enclosed in a dingy little box and kept on some shelf with no water or food. I used to raise chickens when I lived in Spain, and there I saw some shocking treatment of chickens in the markets. But what you described sounds f##king barbaric compared. I am very fond of chickens and found that quite distressing. The transportation of live animals across long stressful journeys is wrong period.

email468 · #50 03-03-2008, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Titania

Am I the only one that is shocked by that? You were sent live animals by post! As if they were some sort of inanimate object!? You go on to say "the ones that made it"... WTF! Like they're ship wreck survivors; they wouldn't be dead if they hadn't been enclosed in a dingy little box and kept on some shelf with no water or food. I used to raise chickens when I lived in Spain, and there I saw some shocking treatment of chickens in the markets. But what you described sounds f##king barbaric compared. I am very fond of chickens and found that quite distressing. The transportation of live animals across long stressful journeys is wrong period.

how else would they get from point A to point B? they don't fly and they can't walk that far - i'm not being mean - i want to know how else they would get around!