This is an interesting subject. I'm a firm believer in that we shouldn't be eating chickens, fish, cows, whatever if we can't face the idea or actual deed. On the other hand David at 3 is a bit young for this concept. However, I was under the impression that farm children faced this all the time. A cow, a goat, a sheep that is a pet, but ends up on the table. I'd like David to face the music, but I'd like to hear other opinions first before I traumatize my son into a life of psychiatric couch-work. For sure I want meat chickens. Doesn't mean Hanibelle has to be the one. Some of this is cultural. I just moved from the Philippines where my next door neighbor had a puppy for many months. The kids played with it all the time and then one day he took it away to eat it with his buddies. I don't think the kids saw the killing or the meat, but for sure almost all Filipino kids grow up with the screaming of pigs going down. Ever hear a pig being force on a boat or being dragged trussed up to the gallows? Horrible.
Opinions on chickencide and how children handle it?
Allen
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Melanie Sidden" <tigger1972@...> wrote:
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> Allen are you going to be using your chickens for meat chickens? I'd be really afraid of your son getting attached to them. Especially since he's carrying this one around and seems attached. Might want to 2nd think letting him "play" with them. Just a thought.
> Melanie
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