I have been thinking of this so much I am dreaming of it. A friend has a large dog run I am going to try to get, if it is not too hard to dismantle, another friend can build me an elevated house, then I will get the little chicks and raise them in the spare bedroom until they are big enough to be outside. I only want 2-4, enough for me to have eggs. If the dog run is not big enough I will make it bigger, and cover it with plywood or something for shade. No roosters, don't want the neighbors to hear them.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Evelyn Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I don't think it was too hard. I used to live with my uncle, a farmer, > for a year and he raised chickens. Not to the scale of these other farms but > he had a whole lot of them. They ran around the farm and I used to go out > and feed them every day. It was nice and they had a gread life. I imagine it > is harder when you are raising hundreds of thousands of them but I absolutly > do not believe they have to be tortured in any way. Evelyn > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: GJC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 6:31:47 PM > Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Was: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples Now: Food > Industry > > so how hard is it to raise chickens? > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:31 PM, arlene weaver <arleneweaver2004@ > yahoo.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > >> i agree with you evelyn >> >> May God walk with you today. >> arlene >> >> --- On *Fri, 8/15/08, Evelyn Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com<[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]> >> >* wrote: >> >> From: Evelyn Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Was: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples Now: Food >> Industry >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com <[email protected]> >> Date: Friday, August 15, 2008, 3:01 PM >> >> I think that the fact they do this is such Sh*t and I really am so >> frustrated with the whole thing. I actually agonize about these things and >> for this reason I eat so little meat. It actually kills me that people do >> not care about how other creatures feel. Like it doesn't matter. Humans are >> SO arrogant to think that they are the only important beings on Earth and >> that nothing else matter. SCOTTY, BEAM ME UP!!!!!! Evelyn >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Mandy F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com >> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 1:51:18 PM >> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Was: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples Now: Food >> Industry >> >> Labels such as "cage free", "free range" and even "all natural" are >> very misleading. Cage free and free range make us think of happen little >> chicken farms where chickens are free to roam through fields of grass... or >> something like that. The reality is that cage free birds are instead housed >> in barns filled with thousands of chickens. Their beaks are cut/burned to >> remove the hook as a way to prevent the chickens from injuring each other. >> The floor is covered in chicken poo. For the eggs/meat to be considered >> free range all the farm has to do is provide a door from the barn leading to >> an outside area. The door does not have to be opened for a certain number >> of hours during the day nor does the area have to be a big sprawling field. >> Usually it's just a small pen with a layer of chicken poo on the floor. >> It's a nice idea, but as consumers we are being mislead with these >> labels. I wish it was different. It's not fair to let the animals suffer, >> but I do not know how the farming industry will ever be able to change. >> -Amanda- >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > > > > "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has > endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us > to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei > > Glenda > Poquita, Molly, Isabella, Chandler, Joy Joy > and all the fosters and angels > > > > > > > > > > -- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei Glenda Poquita, Molly, Isabella, Chandler, Joy Joy and all the fosters and angels
