Yes.....they lay eggs, but they are not furtile. So, they will not make
baby chicks. But they don't lay many in the winter unless you can
provide enough hours of light each day. With electric bills what they
are, it would be cheaper to buy the eggs than to provide the light.
Blessings to u and your's :-)
Addy
em wrote:
Do hens lay eggs if there are no roosters around?? I heard that once,
but I do not know if it is true... -- em J
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*From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*On Behalf Of *GJC
*Sent:* Monday, August 18, 2008 11:40 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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[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 <mailto:[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
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>/* wrote:
From: Evelyn Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Was: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples Now: Food
Industry
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com <mailto:[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 <http://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
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