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Post by gadders »

MisterTea wrote: post #618
aucisson_masque wrote: post #599

Lots of people suggesting to build chicken coop. i have one, sure it's not much work. 2 minutes every day to grab the egg and bring the food and water, but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. then there are the few occasion where you miss with the hatchet and it cuts half its neck, its h…

> but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. Is this a requirement? My friends parents keep chickens and dont kill any of them. They dont have fly problems as the chickens spend most of their day outside of the coop letting them shit on the ground like nature intended. This disperses the wa…

You don't have to kill them if you're doing it for fun/as a hobby.

If you're trying to do it commercially you might want to.

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Post by BrokenInterface »

cco wrote: post #653
aucisson_masque wrote: post #599

Lots of people suggesting to build chicken coop. i have one, sure it's not much work. 2 minutes every day to grab the egg and bring the food and water, but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. then there are the few occasion where you miss with the hatchet and it cuts half its neck, its h…

Having slaughtered my fair share of chickens on a relatively small but not back yard operation, there is a much easier way! Buy a t-post (any 3-5 foot rigid metal pole will do but a t-post has perfect geometry). Next, you'll grab your chicken, lay her down on her back or stomach [1], once she has settled down you're going to lay the t-post gently across her spine just a bit behind her skull. Now place your feet on ei…

Can I just say you've made my day with:

"You will very quickly decapitate the hen and once you do it a couple times it'll be very low stress for both you and the chicken."

Best giggle I had in years!

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Post by snakeyjake »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #599

Lots of people suggesting to build chicken coop. i have one, sure it's not much work. 2 minutes every day to grab the egg and bring the food and water, but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. then there are the few occasion where you miss with the hatchet and it cuts half its neck, its h…

>Beside i don't know what you do with chicken corpse in city, you aren't going to put it in recycling can.

You do with it the same thing you do with a turkey carcass after thanksgiving: throw it in the trash.

"City folk" throw away meat trimmings, spoiled meat, or other meat products in volumes greater than a single chicken carcass every day.

Put it in a bag, put that bag in an another bag, and throw it away. It isn't magic or esoteric wisdom.

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Post by ahoka »

DiscourseFan wrote: post #561
iancmceachern wrote: post #543

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a good thing we don't make every decision in our lives from an absolute financial standpoint. We'd all be eating gruel and porrage.

We in fact do make most decisions in our lives based on finances, you're just not aware of most of them.

We do, but people are maximizing utility and not minimizing costs.

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Post by nsbk »

ljf wrote: post #388
bombcar wrote: post #368

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From an absolute financial standpoint it might be hard to justify eggs from backyard chickens, though once you realize that they can eat something like 25% of their feed can be grass or clippings, and that some percentage can be redirected household waste (think: peels, food waste, etc) it becomes much more favorable. As you mentioned, most treat them like pets which means they get to learn how long-lived chickens ca…

I grew up on a (very) small farm - I still go to throw apple cores out of the window, as when I was younger the was always /something/ that would be happy for the treat. All dinner scraps were saved (or rather taken straight out), and all the windfall and rotten apples were happily eaten by the sheep, cow, geese and chickens. I really hate throwing food away now, really pains me!

Throwing away the core is throwing away both food and the most beneficial part of the apple for your gut. Of the ~100 million bacteria in an apple, the core and seeds contain around 60%, while the pulp only contains around 20%, the skin 10%, the stem 10%. Numbers are from the top of my head, they could be off

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Post by weberer »

Zanfa wrote: post #274
oceanplexian wrote: post #229

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Actually the inconvenient truth is that it's not. Free range birds are able to interact and spread the disease more easily than the caged birds which can be quarantined. At least in my location all the cage free inventory is totally wiped out.

The only thing caged birds do is interact with other birds. There’s a reason antibiotics are so widely used. It’s like a massive Petri dish.

They only interact with other birds within their isolated farm. How would the virus be introduced to that population? Its normally transmitted by wild birds.

>There’s a reason antibiotics are so widely used

Yeah, for bacteria that's in their gut biome. Not pandemic viruses.

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Post by BeefWellington »

mplanchard wrote: post #18

Fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here. While more expensive than eggs from large producers in normal times, they are now often cheaper. This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.

One of the things that's come up in several trade deals Canada has negotiated is how protectionist we (as a country) are when it comes to dairy.

We have not experienced the massive increases in pricing on eggs. The supply management system effectively works to keep farms roughly below a certain size, and seems to have helped avoid large impacts on certain staple foods.

The usual rhetoric against this is that we should be getting cheaper prices by letting in foreign competition. This ignores that doing so would allow foreign subsidies to wipe out our local supply of critical foodstuffs, then making us dependent.

It's not an ideal system but it seems to have yielded some tangible results when things like bird flu are making their rounds.

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Post by cpursley »

mplanchard wrote: post #18

Fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here. While more expensive than eggs from large producers in normal times, they are now often cheaper. This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.

I built a little project to help with this over the break, still needs a lot of work - hopefully helpful for folks looking to connect with their local farmer:

https://www.farmersstand.com/farmers-markets

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Post by buran77 »

iancmceachern wrote: post #710
close04 wrote: post #708

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I agree with the sentiment but keep in mind that being able to do that is a luxury, not the baseline. Too many people in the world, very developed countries included, have to take decisions based exclusively on their finances, having no more room for the niceties than you have for a yacht.

Agreed. I've found, in my own life, that when I'm hyper focused on optimizing things for cost I often get far less "out" of things. I end up not eating my whole dinner because I don't like it. But if I let go a bit, things are actually in aggregate more financially efficient when I'm getting more of what I pay for, if that makes sense. It only works for people who are built this way though. Not hedonists.

That's a much bigger problem. People at the limit of survival financially - and there's a lot of them - may not have the luxury of any kind of financial education, or the leeway to experiment and take longer term aggregates and strategies. There is only now.

It's expensive to be poor and this is why. It's not just hedonists, a chronically empty stomach changes the way you think and how far and wide you're seeing.

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Post by lm28469 »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #599

Lots of people suggesting to build chicken coop. i have one, sure it's not much work. 2 minutes every day to grab the egg and bring the food and water, but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. then there are the few occasion where you miss with the hatchet and it cuts half its neck, its h…

> If you are the kind of animal loving people in city, i'm not sure it's worth it.

If you care about animals this is still infinitely better than 99.9% of the industrial production which basically amount to concentration camps. But yeah, the blood is on your hands, it's much easier to forget about it and abstract it away.

I believe most people would be vegetarian if they had to slaughter and prepare a pig, or even a chicken

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