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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Everything animal wise is for personal consumption. I am a small scale brewer so my grains get fed to all my animals.

    Typically egg layers are slaughterd after 2 years, my 8 yr old hens still produce eggs. And yes I would consider them a pet at this stage. Ive built automated egg laying coups for a semi large producer of eggs and I know how they are treated, 10 chickens in a 1.5’1.53, 3 rows high. No ability to walk. They also produce lower quality eggs

    Yes all the animals we eat tend to have short lives but in my case longer than factory farmed animals (chickens 150-200 days vs 45)

    Pigs get all the weeds from our garden, any leftovers from veggies to meats, the odd egg that breaks too

    At one point we had 50 chickens and a mink got in and killed all but 5, none had been eaten, just killed for sport. That imo is needlessly killing.



  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldSoy and beans
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    How can you eat something you raised?

    Chickens are easy, I don’t name them or interact other than feeding. Although I did have trouble with the last female last year. Put her into the chicken holder and she managed to get out.

    We do have 3 egg layers that are 8-9 now and couldnt eat them

    Pigs, I interact daily, give them scratches and treats. We send them to an abittoir.

    Everything dies eventually, at least I know they had a good life while it lasted.





  • I know how intellegent animals are. I have to interact with them daily.

    And yes I know I am right about glyphosate, Monsanto (now bayer) used to sue farmers for recovering seeds from soy because it infringed on their patents. Also do the same things with cotton. Farmers used to feed the sheep the left overs untill the GMO product started to kill the sheep…