ChrisP Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 First off - I do, sincerely apolagise if this causes offence to anyone or causes distress or anything, it is NOT intended to! Do any of you chicken keepers still eat chicken (not your own, ones from the supermarket!)? Again, sorry if this causes anyone offence or anything, just a question I have been wondoring for a while and thought I would post the question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egg Lou Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I'm a vege so I don't eat chicken anyway, but DD still does but we cannot talk about our girls at the same time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I do Chris, but I buy mine from the local organic farm.........I like to think that freerange organic chickens have had a happier life and I do like the taste of chicken. I couldn't eat my own girls they are pets and have been bread to lay eggs not to be eaten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 No offence taken! Yep-i still eat chicken.I buy chickens from local farm where they're wandering about his yard and choose which one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 nope I dont eat meat anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Yes, but we just call it 'white meat' as not to offend the girls! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moomin Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I still eat chicken but it has to be free range now. And I can't deal with a whole chicken on a plate, my husband has to cook it and carve it I find it too upsetting to see it's little legs and breast bone etc!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol U Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Yes, we eat chicken provided it's free range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen&Lee Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 We still eat Chicken, we have, for years before we had chooks only had free range and preferably (and mostly) organic as I have an issue with eating chicken pumped full of antibiotics and growth promoters.. I would not eat the girls, but I am fairly comfortable with the idea of eventually hatching and growing on the cockerals as table birds. The idea of viewing those chickens differently, then eating them knowing what they have been fed is fine, the dispatching and gutting is a little tricker - but my dad would have no qualms about that. My husband however isn't so comfortable with the idea... Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faye&Ant Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 We eat chicken from a local farm, I just make sure the back door and windows are shut so they cant smell it when it is cooking Faye x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I can't eat chicken anymore - it makes me think of our girlies and no way would I eat them! In fact, I'm increasingly going off meat altogether since we got them. Hubby, of course, is not the slightest bit affected, even though he does still love our girls just as much as I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omletina Kyckling Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I eat chicken, but only free range, and I call it kyckling (Swedish for chicken) so they don't understand what I'm talking about,should they overhear from the garden! I'm assuming my chickens don't understand swedish though!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 No offence taken whatsoever . We still eat chicken but only freerange. I don't tend to buy as much as I used to (mainly because of the price, but I suspect due to my girlies too ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluckbok Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Hi ya, def no offence taken whatsover Only free-range chicken. Never anything else and never chicken sarnies from a supermarket or anything that contains chicken, unless it states on pack free-range. Definately not our own chickens ever, they are pets. We don't have it very often. When we've had a chicken for dinner hubby puts it in a carrier bag and puts it in the bin later, so the girls don't see he doesn't wanna offend them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 It hasn't changed my eating habits. I eat a lot of chicken, and I only buy free range (pref organic). What has changed is that I now ask in restaurants if the chicken is free range, and I don't order it if it isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh sarah Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 no offence taken still eat chicken but only free range i could never eat our girlies as i think of them as pets, but i do think it would be better to eat your own birds at least you would know they had been treated humanly and had a good life i am just too squeemish sarah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLK69 Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Been a vegie for 20 odd years now - so my chooks are just pets - what i do find is that I can't eat eggs any more. Unless I mix them into cakes really quickly but no omlette etc. S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I don't eat meat, but the family do....and they eat chicken. Not yer Asda 2 for a fiver, but organic Free range. You can get three meals plus soup from one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 a perfectly good question - and like almost everyone else on here, yes I eat it but only free-range. No chicken sandwiches, chicken nuggets, takeaways, chicken curry ... in fact, usually I only eat it at home because I have yet to find a restaurant or sandwich bar that uses free-range. I also ask in restaurants - and then order something else, because the answer is always no! I was thinking of going back to being vegetarian, which I was for some years, but keeping chickens has actually convinced me that eating meat is right (although perhaps not in the quantities that some people eat it). For every hen we have laying eggs, there's a cockerel hatched - even farms don't keep more than a couple of cockerels, because they don't produce anything! So it makes sense to eat some meat. I probably only eat it once a week or so, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 We still eat chicken, but only if it's organic or free range which is usually bought from tesco i'm afraid to say! But I eat as a veggie when i'm out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I havent for a long time but I have 11 outside that will be ready in approx 6/7 weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 We still eat chicken & plenty of it too. Always free range & 80% of the time organic too We refer to the girls as hens rather than chickens,so we keep hens but eat chicken No need to ask if you are offending anyone - we all have to eat & we all make our own choices about what we eat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamebird Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Yes, we still eat chicken. They are free range from the village butchers. However, I have become fussy about eating chicken in restaurants. I tend to avoid it now unless I know they are free range. So I usually opt for lamb or fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 If you give up eating chicken, it won't save a cockerel's life: they will nearly all get killed anyway. In fact, they probably get the chance of a longer life if people go on eating them, because people want to cook a decent-sized bird. I prefer buying chicken breasts, however, to handling a whole chicken, so I must be getting a bit sensitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliveb Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 We still eat chicken at home and out and about. I too wouldnt eat my two as they are first and foremost pets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
