"I can only assume your not aware of it based on your statements suggesting reform which has and is still happening. YOUR OWN STATEMENTS BASED ON YOUR AGE LED ME TO THOSE CONCLUSIONS. If in fact it's NOT the case don't make statements like you did about "reform" and I won't assume anything. You still however never addressed my questions to you about your neighbor statements and my responses to them...thanks"

I did not state my age in "my own statements" but rather a member called me out with a response titled "HOW OLD ARE YOU??" --- which was very annoying, so I stated it. Along with where I live/come from and other little tidbits to "prove I'm a person"

My neighbor keeps 10-12 laying-hens and a few roosters in the same pen. He has another coop which has much more including 5-10 roosters (they are concentrated in this second pen) they fight all darn day, but he doesn't care. Every week (roughly) he goes out there, grabs one, kills it, plucks it, cleans it and cooks it. By this time the scars that the roosters have are completely moot, right? The fact that they escape all day and run around my yard doesn't bother me, the fact that he eats them does not bother me (i'd kill, pluck and clean them myself if it was my chicken). Is he a professional chicken farmer? obviously not, he's feeding his family/pets on eggs and fresh meat. Are his pens too small to house those chickens, yes. Should he be called out on it? probably, that's an awful lot of damned noise for me to deal with.

The point? he has rabbits too, and large snakes (I bet if he had an Afrock it would die of cardio-failure), and l-rd knows what ELSE! His kids are in 4h and stuff like that so they have a menagerie of herps and especially non herps/livestock.

So it isn't when he cleans the chickens that bothers me. It's when they go right inside. I mean I'm a noob and whatnot but are feathers really nutritionally beneficial? But who in the world is ever going to pluck a LIVE chicken! How.... morbid!

[ Hide Replies ]

• What I have learned - busterlimes, Thu Mar 18 15:56:43 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Thu Mar 18 16:16:00 2010
• RE: What I have learned - BRhaco, Thu Mar 18 16:36:52 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Thu Mar 18 16:41:05 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Thu Mar 18 16:45:10 2010
• RE: What I have learned - jscrick, Thu Mar 18 17:07:49 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Thu Mar 18 17:31:33 2010
• RE: What I have learned - Ravenspirit, Thu Mar 18 19:40:52 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Fri Mar 19 00:17:14 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Fri Mar 19 06:53:48 2010
• RE: What I have learned - brhaco, Fri Mar 19 08:27:06 2010
• RE: What I have learned - jscrick, Fri Mar 19 12:50:31 2010
• RE: What I have learned - luhrsreptiles, Fri Mar 19 18:12:51 2010
• RE: What I have learned - jscrick, Fri Mar 19 18:53:31 2010
• RE: What I have learned - emysbreeder, Fri Mar 19 19:26:34 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 02:25:08 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Fri Mar 19 15:07:07 2010
• Same here, Tom - BRhaco, Fri Mar 19 16:18:12 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Fri Mar 19 17:34:05 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 01:34:54 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 08:25:19 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - jscrick, Sat Mar 20 08:52:40 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 09:01:04 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 15:00:56 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - Calparsoni, Sun Mar 21 01:23:20 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - busterlimes, Sun Mar 21 06:06:37 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - Calparsoni, Sun Mar 21 14:12:16 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - busterlimes, Sun Mar 21 14:22:38 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 14:59:25 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 08:35:57 2010
• RE: Same here, Tom - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 15:03:31 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Thu Mar 18 18:14:41 2010
• RE: What I have learned - Ravenspirit, Thu Mar 18 19:46:01 2010
• RE: What I have learned - Mcdowelli76, Thu Mar 18 22:45:06 2010
• RE: What I have learned - webwheeler, Thu Mar 18 22:52:12 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Fri Mar 19 00:05:41 2010
• RE: What I have learned - Mcdowelli76, Fri Mar 19 00:27:17 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Fri Mar 19 23:58:10 2010
• RE: What I have learned - mpollard, Fri Mar 19 10:44:11 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Fri Mar 19 11:24:04 2010
• RE: What I have learned - Calparsoni, Fri Mar 19 11:57:36 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 00:33:15 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 08:58:58 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 15:08:02 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 15:26:19 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 15:40:27 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 15:55:04 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 16:41:58 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 17:17:49 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 17:19:04 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 17:24:35 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 17:36:13 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 17:52:44 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 18:07:33 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 18:12:06 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 18:27:31 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 18:21:29 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 18:32:04 2010
• RE: What I have learned - Calparsoni, Sun Mar 21 01:35:16 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sun Mar 21 06:08:25 2010
• RE: What I have learned - Calparsoni, Sun Mar 21 14:25:32 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sun Mar 21 14:32:17 2010
• RE: We didn't start the fire - Calparsoni, Mon Mar 22 15:08:16 2010
• I retain my ideas and wish you all well. - busterlimes, Mon Mar 22 18:19:03 2010
• re: - Calparsoni, Mon Mar 22 21:27:21 2010
• RE: What I have learned - Calparsoni, Sun Mar 21 01:31:18 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sun Mar 21 06:12:51 2010
• RE: What I have learned - jscrick, Sun Mar 21 09:02:36 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sun Mar 21 09:54:41 2010
• RE: What I have learned - Calparsoni, Sun Mar 21 14:33:00 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sun Mar 21 14:35:57 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 00:54:11 2010
• RE: What I have learned - kathylove, Sat Mar 20 13:00:41 2010
• RE: What I have learned - webwheeler, Sat Mar 20 13:09:33 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 15:11:31 2010
• RE: What I have learned - webwheeler, Sat Mar 20 15:53:15 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 16:18:45 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 16:52:03 2010
• RE: What I have learned - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Mar 20 17:47:06 2010
• RE: What I have learned - busterlimes, Sat Mar 20 18:19:33 2010
• RE: What I have learned - lep1pic1, Thu Apr 15 04:36:29 2010