will plan to get chicks early spring - it is illegal within a certain number of feet of neighbor but is usually ignored unless there are complaints, which are usually about roosters - and free eggs make a lot of good will!
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:49 AM, OKreationz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *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 <[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 > > > > > > > > > > -- "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
