Baby chicks

[nell67]

LOL I would think this girl is very tasty,but I REALLY want babies out of her,since she is of showable quality,with grand champions on both sides,and I have bred her so my neice and nephew have bunnies to show at the fair! Other wise,she is toast!

[nell67]

awww.you can have the ones that didn't survive,or I have to put down because they are too weak to survive when they make it to the store.LOL

[crashdive123]

You do realize of course that having the kids name their dinner was not a good idea right?

[finallyME]

You do realize of course that having the kids name their dinner was not a good idea right?

I think they are used to it now. They know that only 4 will make it past a few months. I don't think they realize that in a few weeks all the chicks will look different. Anyways, I kill rabbits all the time, and they still name them. I just tell them all the time that we are eating them. They also name the goldfish we buy at the store and then feed to our turtles.

[crashdive123]

Ahhh. Raising cold blooded................nah.

Good deal.

[OhioGrizzLapp]

Natural Born Killas........... LOLOL

[kyratshooter]

We used to sit at the dinner table and review the atributes of whichever cow/hog/bunny we were eating for that meal.

The kids learned not to get attached to the livestock. They would name the breeders/hens because they knew those were going to be around for a while.

[finallyME]

Hopefully it gives them a deeper understanding of life and death, and where our food comes from. I never had this when I was a kid, so I am learning a lot. My mom has an immune deficiency, so pets were generally relegated to fish. Although, we did have bees for a time, and two ducks that roamed the yard freely and completely devoured any bugs inside the fence line. My wife has a harder time than the kids. She has a hard time dressing a frozen, store bought turkey. But, she is learning as well. I am sure eventually she will be cutting the heads off the fryers like the best of them.