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[Pedro1962]

Has anyone stopped eating chicken or given up meat entirely since they started keeping hens?

 

I only ask as my 6 year old DD asked me the other day, " Will we have to stop eating chicken when the hens arrive?"

 

I am a lapsed vegetarian and am starting to think that I might find it difficult to eat meat after the chooks arrive.

 

Would be interesting to hear others' views and experiences...

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I haven't give it up but I'll only buy freerange chicken . (Costs a fortune .)

[Chickvic]

Same here, still eat meat but am far more aware of buying any meat that has been reared to good standards.

[laurmurf]

it may sound strange but having chooks has made me appreciate the chicken we eat much more, we don't eat it as often but, as ANH said, only eat free range.

 

A few of us are moving from just keeping chooks as pets to keeping chooks for meat birds too and it doesn't seem strange to me at all.

[Guest]

yes same as the others I dont think I am soft and try not to humanise animals but when I see the rottiserie chickens all lined up in the supermarket or chickens for £2 I wonder what kind of life they had now. I do follow/support the River cottage campaign as well re better welfare standards

 

Would like to raise and eat my own chickens...not sure when though? indie

[kitbag]

I eat meat but not as much as I did before the chooks!! I only buy free range now.

[Tessa the Duchess]

I have had chickens for nearly two years and we have only eaten chicken three times

during that period, we save it for special occasions, freerange only. My DH still hasn't eaten an egg that my chickens have laid unless it is in an omlette or in batter, it

drives me crazy but he says he feels funny about them

 

Tessa

[Space Chick]

Before I had the girls I only ate free-range or organic meat. Its still the same since having the girls, only now I preach about it more to other people too

[Olly]

Only free-range, but actually having chickens has stopped me from going back to being a vegetarian - I was a veggie for 8 years, and I was thinking about returning.

 

Now I keep hens myself, I recognise that if you don't eat meat, you're still supporting the meat industry by buying eggs and milk, because all those male calves and chickens have to go somewhere. I'm not prepared to go vegan which is the other logical alternative, so I only eat sustainably and humanely produced meat.

[Scramble]

Same with me

Still eat chicken, not as much as we used to though, and only free range

[craftyhunnypie]

We don't eat chicken in any form - not even chicken flavoured things & we only eat food with free range eggs when out for a pub or restaurant meal.

We are still meat eaters, we just avoid chicken & very often use Quorn or meat free alternatives where recipes ask for chicken. Other wise it's beef, pork, lamb or turkey.

 

Emma.x

[Chucky Mama]

How strange, I was thinking of posting this question! We still eat chicken, I did wonder if the children would want to stop but they haven't. I only buy free range and have done for about 5 years now. I thought that there was something very wrong when I was able to buy 6 chicken breasts for 99p plus 1 pack free one day and decided that I would rather not fuel the way this cheap chicken was being produced.

 

I think the greatest difference is that I don't want to eat eggs anywhere other than home! I had a bacon and egg breakfast at a B & B and the egg yolk was so horribly pale that I had to leave it!

[Looney]

We still eat meat, including chicken. Like others I try to only buy free range (and British) and I appreciate where the meat comes from. My parents always taught me the link between the animals in the field and the food on my plate.

[..lay a little egg for me]

Before I had the girls I only ate free-range or organic meat. Its still the same since having the girls, only now I preach about it more to other people too

 

That's me!

[bluekarin]

we still eat chicken, but thinking about it, we don't eat it as much. I do make sure its free range though. My YS has stopped eating chicken twice since we got the girls. He's eating chicken currently. Well, not currently, currently as he's in lessons at school!

[fluffyknickers]

No we havent changed at all but just eat MORE eggs!

 

Probably going to get 'told off' now but sadly I cannot afford to buy only free range chicken, especially now my OH has work problems.

 

However if I could afford it I would ONLY buy free range and nothing else.

 

michelle

[Steph101]

Same here. We only eat free range, and organic where possible. I don't make the link between our chickens and the ones we eat. Ours are pets and providers of our eggs. We haven't had a relationship with the meat we eat. Maybe i would feel differently if we had.

[chickencam]

We have always tried to buy high welfare chicken and now we buy all meat with this in mind. We do have the occasional lapse when we have a takeaway, but will choose meat other than chicken when we can.