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⌈ Secret Post #4207 ⌋

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Re: Eating animals/rant/idk

[(Anonymous)]

OP—Crowing was my issue because I have a code-compliance obsessed neighbor and we have a “no loud noise between 10pm and 7am” bylaw, but the rooster ban specifically is ostensibly in place to stop cockfighting.

My parents were farmers for a decade or so, of the back-to-the-land hippie type rather than the 100,000 actes of corn and soybeans or 10,000 head of cattle type. I was a toddler when they packed it in for the city because my premie medical bills topped $150,000.00 and they got $450,000 for their 90+ acres. But my dad still wanted to farm, hence chickens, which I inherited when my parents split.

So my farm info is mostly family stories with research and randomness thrown in. But no one is gonna have only one chicken for long, they need a flock and also if they’re for meat you need enough to breed, and one milch goat is barely subsistence level. Even then, that goat would still need to be bred every year to give milk, and even if you rent a stud goat, that means baby goats. Same for cattle. Most of the males will be castrated and raised for meat, but dairy cattle are scrawny by comparison to beef cattle and might just become veal.

Generally speaking, when an animal stops reliably producing eggs or milk, you’d slaughter and eat them and replace them with young ones. But chickens can live 16+ years and commercial laying hens are killed at 2 and maybe used for pet food, because they’re too sick and scrawny to eat by then. Male chicks of laying breeds typically go into a meat grinder or dumpster while still alive, as soon as they’re sexed, because they’re too scrawny to eat. Even small farms will slaughter unproductive laying hens, although they might live a bit longer and be in good enough shape for stew.

The difference between a pet and livestock is that the end goal of one is companionship and the end goal of the other is food (or possibly fiber.) If you can’t bear to make food out of an animal, congrats on your pet. (Also most livestock I’ve known with names were called things like Hamburger or Drumstick, with the exception of a stud bull called El Dorado.)