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What was the number one reason you started raising chickens for meat?
To save money
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To spend the same money but get better quality
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To be certain about the source of my poultry meat
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To have better quality chicken than is available for sale locally
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To be sure that the chickens I eat lived a good life
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To start a new business selling poultry meat
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To do something useful with all the spare cockerels
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It sounded like fun
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Some other reason - please comment!
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JKLawrence



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 05 1:09 pm    Post subject: For those who raise chickens for meat... Reply with quote
    

I'm planning to write an article on keeping chickens for meat, and I'd like to hear why those who have done it got started. There may be lots of reasons, and the reasons may have changed... just give me the main thing that motivated you to do it.

judith



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 05 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Pretty much all of the above, but if I have to choose just one...

alison
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 05 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I haven't done it yet, apart from eating the odd cockerel, but we ahve prepared the area we are going to be using for them, as this years meat addition.
we have added a new meat species every year.
Next year is rabbit, I think.

Primarily, it is so we know exactly where are meat is coming from, what it has eaten and how it has lived. Taste will be a swift second.

Treacodactyl
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 05 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We only have laying hens at the moment. When we move I will try and raise some of our own hens and eat the cockerals. If I had to choose one reason it would be 'To be sure that the chickens I eat lived a good life', although several of the other options would apply.

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