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New Sheep! <3
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Beekissed
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I read an article once about a lady who "rescues" pot bellied pigs that folks have gotten for pets and decided better later. She eats some of them, but breeds some to sell the babies for pets, but tells the new owner if they ever decide to get rid of them for any reason, to please just bring them back to her. Quite often they do~as most folks think they are cute when little but change their minds later on when they find out that keeping pigs can be hard work.
Anyhoo, in that manner she makes money on the sale of the pet piglets, someone else spends the money to get them to eating size then they bring them back to her and she butchers them for eating. It's a win/win situation.
Maybe you could do something like that with your baby doll sheep....when folks grow tired of keeping their new "pets", you could offer to take them off their hands and then put them in the freezer. That's cheap eats, right there!
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Such a great idea, @Beekissed! I love American ingenuity!
I wonder if I could "Rent" out incubators, supply fertile eggs, and let other people half raise chickens for me. At the right age they will get sick of the noise and mess and return them to me.
I wonder if I could "Rent" out incubators, supply fertile eggs, and let other people half raise chickens for me. At the right age they will get sick of the noise and mess and return them to me.
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I sort of do a variation of that, Smart Red. Long about fall I look in the classifieds for roosters folks are giving away or selling for a buck, either because they aren't allowed to have them in their neighborhood or they don't want to winter them over and don't have the gumption to kill and eat them.
One year I got 21 roosters of all breeds and various ages from two different places, all for $6. I just kept them here, feeding them up on some good fermented feed to clean up the taste of their meat for about 3 wks, and then I canned them up. That's a lot of free meat that someone else paid to get to maturity and those roosters had a better life than before, at least for 3 wks....you wouldn't believe how these birds were being kept. Make you want to cry and death was a better option.
Last fall I got 16 retired RSL hens for $15 and they were nice, heavy birds...also living in chicken hell, so was glad to relieve them of their misery. I kept back 2 of them to fill out the flock for the winter and then culled them in the spring.
It's a win/win.
One year I got 21 roosters of all breeds and various ages from two different places, all for $6. I just kept them here, feeding them up on some good fermented feed to clean up the taste of their meat for about 3 wks, and then I canned them up. That's a lot of free meat that someone else paid to get to maturity and those roosters had a better life than before, at least for 3 wks....you wouldn't believe how these birds were being kept. Make you want to cry and death was a better option.
Last fall I got 16 retired RSL hens for $15 and they were nice, heavy birds...also living in chicken hell, so was glad to relieve them of their misery. I kept back 2 of them to fill out the flock for the winter and then culled them in the spring.
It's a win/win.
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Most people will not bring them back or talk to you again if you mention you eat them.
Also, I grow mine on pasture, so zero money spent on feeding them. I spend money and time to vaccinate them, worm if needed, vet them if needed, etc.
Also, I grow mine on pasture, so zero money spent on feeding them. I spend money and time to vaccinate them, worm if needed, vet them if needed, etc.
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I can believe that! There's a serious disconnect in the world today between fantasy(where people imagine the meat they eat was manufactured at the store) and reality(where all meat came from an animal of some type and no animal should be cherished more than another for this purpose), where people cannot seem to distinguish between the two.
It's a sadness that it's so wide spread and pervasive, without reason or intelligence of any kind as the driving force behind it.
It's a sadness that it's so wide spread and pervasive, without reason or intelligence of any kind as the driving force behind it.
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Beekissed, I give away my chickens to people that I know will eat them. I tell them they are getting good fresh meat and were fed only organic feed. Although I did once get a scathing reply from an animal activist on my craigslist post.
Mary
Beekissed, I give away my chickens to people that I know will eat them. I tell them they are getting good fresh meat and were fed only organic feed. Although I did once get a scathing reply from an animal activist on my craigslist post.
Mary
