Where do you live.. Probably best this late in the season to plan this for next spring unless you live a yr round climate.. Otherwise it sounds perfect Also make sure you check local regulations.. If you live in town it may be illegal for you to have chickens.. they are considered livestock.. Yeah I know.. stupid Huggles Pat in OK (who grew up with a chicken coop in the backyard) -------Original Message------- From: GJC Date: 8/18/2008 10:40:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Was: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples Now: Food Industry 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> wrote: i agree with you evelyn May God walk with you today. arlene --- On Fri, 8/15/08, Evelyn Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: From: Evelyn Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Was: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples Now: Food Industry To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com 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
