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There was a piece of recent news about the increase of people homesteading and keeping backyard poultry due to the pandemic. That inspired me to write this because eventually, they have to make this hard decision all farmers do.
I am a poultry farmer and I had seen fellow farmers who failed in farming because they can't sell their animals because they got emotionally attached. That leads them to not making money and having to hoard livestock as pets. Sounds ridiculous but it happens a lot. Did you know Nasa's Plan of colonizing Mars does not include farm animals? Why well did an experiment before where they made a Fake Mars colony and have people there farm animals and plants? When they are about to Harvest some animals one of the people on the experiment fought everyone because he got emotionally attached to an animal.
So Martian colonists under Nasa will have a Vegan diet once their canned goods run out. I decided to write this article because the Pandemic increased the number of backyard chickens. This is WWE wrestler Liv Morgan with her Backyard Hens, something I notice she is emotionally attached to those girls. Once those girls become menopause she will have to decide between slaughtering them or keeping them as money-consuming pets that will never lay eggs.
She named all of the girls so three years from now she will have to make a hard decision.
Choose an Animal breed where everyone looks the same.
I think New Zealand rabbits become a popular meat breed not only because they are meaty but they look the same. Usually, farmers get emotionally attached to one animal that looks unique. That emotional attachment is impossible if everyone looks the same.
When I purchased my ducks I avoided buying someone who has spots or markers. I chose plain white ones so they all look the same because individuality can cause you to love them like babies.
Do not name them
Let's say you have a cow and she gave birth to two calves. A boy and a girl. You decided to keep the girl as a dairy cow while the boy as a meat bull. Can you imagine if you named the Bull, Michael? Months later, Michael got slaughtered your family is talking about how tasty Michael is? Every time you get a piece of Michael's meat from the freezer for you to cook, You will be thinking it is Michael. You will have not this guilt if you never named this boy in the first place.
Hire someone else to take care of them. This is something I haven't done yet because I am so cheap that I don't want to pay a salary to people. That is why I farm on my own. On the other hand, hiring someone else to take care of the animals on your farm means you won't be attached to the animal. Someone else is and it won't be you who will be having the guilt.
Give them the best life
You know what, I don't feel guilt anymore whenever I kill one of my livestock because I know I gave them the best life. I free-ranged them on the orchards and the fields. Most commercially produced meat is from animals who suffered from cages. My animals enjoyed every single moment of their short lives.
Sell them
I know some homesteaders who can't fathom eating the meat of animals they raise but they farm animals by selling them for money. They usually sell them as breeders instead of meat so the life of the animals they raise gets extended. If you sell them, You won't have to deal with slaughtering them. Everything will be off-screen.
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When you breed livestock there will have categories. The breeders and the fatteners. It is okay to get attached with the breeders since they will live longer until they become infertile. The fatteners are fated to to be slaughtered.
There was a piece of recent news about the increase of people homesteading and keeping backyard poultry due to the pandemic. That inspired me to write this because eventually, they have to make this hard decision all farmers do.
I am a poultry farmer and I had seen fellow farmers who failed in farming because they can't sell their animals because they got emotionally attached. That leads them to not making money and having to hoard livestock as pets. Sounds ridiculous but it happens a lot. Did you know Nasa's Plan of colonizing Mars does not include farm animals? Why well did an experiment before where they made a Fake Mars colony and have people there farm animals and plants? When they are about to Harvest some animals one of the people on the experiment fought everyone because he got emotionally attached to an animal.
So Martian colonists under Nasa will have a Vegan diet once their canned goods run out. I decided to write this article because the Pandemic increased the number of backyard chickens. This is WWE wrestler Liv Morgan with her Backyard Hens, something I notice she is emotionally attached to those girls. Once those girls become menopause she will have to decide between slaughtering them or keeping them as money-consuming pets that will never lay eggs.
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She named all of the girls so three years from now she will have to make a hard decision.
[b]Choose an Animal breed where everyone looks the same.[/b] [img]https://cdn0.wideopenpets.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-zealand-rabbit-cover.jpg[/img]
I think New Zealand rabbits become a popular meat breed not only because they are meaty but they look the same. Usually, farmers get emotionally attached to one animal that looks unique. That emotional attachment is impossible if everyone looks the same.
When I purchased my ducks I avoided buying someone who has spots or markers. I chose plain white ones so they all look the same because individuality can cause you to love them like babies.
[b]Do not name them[/b]
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Let's say you have a cow and she gave birth to two calves. A boy and a girl. You decided to keep the girl as a dairy cow while the boy as a meat bull. Can you imagine if you named the Bull, Michael? Months later, Michael got slaughtered your family is talking about how tasty Michael is? Every time you get a piece of Michael's meat from the freezer for you to cook, You will be thinking it is Michael. You will have not this guilt if you never named this boy in the first place.
[b] Hire someone else to take care of them.[/b] This is something I haven't done yet because I am so cheap that I don't want to pay a salary to people. That is why I farm on my own. On the other hand, hiring someone else to take care of the animals on your farm means you won't be attached to the animal. Someone else is and it won't be you who will be having the guilt.
[b]Give them the best life[/b]
You know what, I don't feel guilt anymore whenever I kill one of my livestock because I know I gave them the best life. I free-ranged them on the orchards and the fields. Most commercially produced meat is from animals who suffered from cages. My animals enjoyed every single moment of their short lives.
[b]Sell them[/b]
I know some homesteaders who can't fathom eating the meat of animals they raise but they farm animals by selling them for money. They usually sell them as breeders instead of meat so the life of the animals they raise gets extended. If you sell them, You won't have to deal with slaughtering them. Everything will be off-screen.
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When you breed livestock there will have categories. The breeders and the fatteners. It is okay to get attached with the breeders since they will live longer until they become infertile. The fatteners are fated to to be slaughtered.
I am a vegetarian so well no Meat, chicken or even eggs for me. However, I think if one has to be in the business for Livestock, one needs to keep emotions on one side, and be pragmatic.
I am a vegetarian so well no Meat, chicken or even eggs for me. However, I think if one has to be in the business for Livestock, one needs to keep emotions on one side, and be pragmatic.
ptrikha21 wrote:I am a vegetarian so well no Meat, chicken or even eggs for me. However, I think if one has to be in the business for Livestock, one needs to keep emotions on one side, and be pragmatic.
You are not vegan so you still do dairy and honey right?
[quote="ptrikha21"]I am a vegetarian so well no Meat, chicken or even eggs for me. However, I think if one has to be in the business for Livestock, one needs to keep emotions on one side, and be pragmatic.[/quote]
You are not vegan so you still do dairy and honey right?
Sometimes, in business emotions, like and the rest are put aside. Business must be treated as business without no emotional attachment. I know of a friend who was so attarched to his dog, he cried so much the day a buyer came for it.
Sometimes, in business emotions, like and the rest are put aside. Business must be treated as business without no emotional attachment. I know of a friend who was so attarched to his dog, he cried so much the day a buyer came for it.
I have never thought of this before, that people can get emotionally attached to the livestock they are keeping. I see how hard it will be for them to sell or eat them when it is eventually time comes. Those are very good tips you have given to prevent that.
I have never thought of this before, that people can get emotionally attached to the livestock they are keeping. I see how hard it will be for them to sell or eat them when it is eventually time comes. Those are very good tips you have given to prevent that.
Livestock animals can be sweet and affectionate, My ducks and geese are very playful to me. But I feel less guilt now because I know they lived a happy life before I harvest them.
Livestock animals can be sweet and affectionate, My ducks and geese are very playful to me. But I feel less guilt now because I know they lived a happy life before I harvest them.
If you are doing a poultry business your most likely to get attached to your animals, but you can get over it at some point though it will take a lot of courage to do that. i agree with your sentiments especially giving them to someone else to take care of them.
If you are doing a poultry business your most likely to get attached to your animals, but you can get over it at some point though it will take a lot of courage to do that. i agree with your sentiments especially giving them to someone else to take care of them.
Yugocean wrote:If Nasa is building Mars colony, it should built other things, animals are essentials due to several work which cannot be done by machines.
They will use 3d printers for construction. So 6 people are enough to build a city but Yeah no animals because it might make astronauts kill each other due to emotional attachment.
[quote="Yugocean"]If Nasa is building Mars colony, it should built other things, animals are essentials due to several work which cannot be done by machines.[/quote]
They will use 3d printers for construction. So 6 people are enough to build a city but Yeah no animals because it might make astronauts kill each other due to emotional attachment.
ptrikha21 wrote:I am a vegetarian so well no Meat, chicken or even eggs for me. However, I think if one has to be in the business for Livestock, one needs to keep emotions on one side, and be pragmatic.
You are not vegan so you still do dairy and honey right?
I do have Honey, milk and cottage cheese(Paneer) but no meat, chicken or even eggs. Long time back, we occasionally used to have cakes with eggs but now we have many cakes which are eggless.
[quote="Netherrealmer"][quote="ptrikha21"]I am a vegetarian so well no Meat, chicken or even eggs for me. However, I think if one has to be in the business for Livestock, one needs to keep emotions on one side, and be pragmatic.[/quote]
You are not vegan so you still do dairy and honey right?[/quote] I do have Honey, milk and cottage cheese(Paneer) but no meat, chicken or even eggs. Long time back, we occasionally used to have cakes with eggs but now we have many cakes which are eggless.
Well am not much of a soft spot person as regards to rearing animals for food whether its for home consumption or for resell. Nowadays with a lot of technologies you can only be so glad that your know the source of most of the food.And your backyard or farm is the safest place to get them.Am okay o grow as much of my food as possible.
Well am not much of a soft spot person as regards to rearing animals for food whether its for home consumption or for resell. Nowadays with a lot of technologies you can only be so glad that your know the source of most of the food.And your backyard or farm is the safest place to get them.Am okay o grow as much of my food as possible.
Your article just reminded me of the chickens I was feeding in my rural home from last year December to this year January. I had stayed with the chickens for almost two months but I was attached to one lady chicken. Every time she saw me, she would run towards me expecting food. I used to feed the chickens with rice and some other vegetables or remains of cooked food. This lady chicken loved me because I always defended her when the cock want to beat her.
When my mom was planning to carry her to the city for a meal, I would say," no no no, we can't eat my friend, let her live a little longer. Let's eat the cock because he always picks on her."
So I think another point is to let domestic animals like chickens to learn to find food for themselves or else they will get attached to us too.
Your article just reminded me of the chickens I was feeding in my rural home from last year December to this year January. I had stayed with the chickens for almost two months but I was attached to one lady chicken. Every time she saw me, she would run towards me expecting food. I used to feed the chickens with rice and some other vegetables or remains of cooked food. This lady chicken loved me because I always defended her when the cock want to beat her.
When my mom was planning to carry her to the city for a meal, I would say," no no no, we can't eat my friend, let her live a little longer. Let's eat the cock because he always picks on her."
So I think another point is to let domestic animals like chickens to learn to find food for themselves or else they will get attached to us too.
I think it is okay to be emotionally attached to one or two but that's it. You will be in your road to bankruptcy if you keep more as pets and not livestock.
I think it is okay to be emotionally attached to one or two but that's it. You will be in your road to bankruptcy if you keep more as pets and not livestock.
That is why I would never have that kind of farm, we don't even our chickens! I always get emotionally attached to my animals and I think this is a family thing, my father had once a pig that he raised to kill for the meat, he had no courage to kill the animal because the pig behaved like a pet and my father liked it a lot.
That is why I would never have that kind of farm, we don't even our chickens! I always get emotionally attached to my animals and I think this is a family thing, my father had once a pig that he raised to kill for the meat, he had no courage to kill the animal because the pig behaved like a pet and my father liked it a lot.
I would never kill or slaughter lives stock if i am really rich. If raising them for earning income, never ever put your feelings into them because you will feel the guilt later on.
I would never kill or slaughter lives stock if i am really rich. If raising them for earning income, never ever put your feelings into them because you will feel the guilt later on.
I am going to talk to the farm owner and I will have to decide to either sell my chicken outside my office or slaughter them. They are way past menopause and they feed too much. We have never named them though.
I am going to talk to the farm owner and I will have to decide to either sell my chicken outside my office or slaughter them. They are way past menopause and they feed too much. We have never named them though.
sweerie_banana wrote:I am going to talk to the farm owner and I will have to decide to either sell my chicken outside my office or slaughter them. They are way past menopause and they feed too much. We have never named them though.
Do you already have replacement girls for them? A hen have a fertility span of three years. Ducks have 9 years so they are gaining popularity.
[quote="sweerie_banana"]I am going to talk to the farm owner and I will have to decide to either sell my chicken outside my office or slaughter them. They are way past menopause and they feed too much. We have never named them though.[/quote]
Do you already have replacement girls for them? A hen have a fertility span of three years. Ducks have 9 years so they are gaining popularity.
I am not a vegetarian as I love meat to the fullest and so I can't be emotional attached to my livestock because I know it's there for meat, eggs, milk etc.
I am not a vegetarian as I love meat to the fullest and so I can't be emotional attached to my livestock because I know it's there for meat, eggs, milk etc.
If I will have kids, I will never make them watch shows and movies with farm animals as protagonists. So they won't get attached to livestock too. I had been gutting fish and killing chickens at age 8.
If I will have kids, I will never make them watch shows and movies with farm animals as protagonists. So they won't get attached to livestock too. I had been gutting fish and killing chickens at age 8.
