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RE: Processing Our First Chicken
I'm looking forward to having space to raise enough chickens to feed my family with some of them, but for now, I'm afraid I just have 3 breakfast laying pets.
Is it easier to not get attached to them when there are so many of them?
Much easier I think. It's taken me this long to name them all because I'm just now finally learning the subtle differences in the way they look and behave. We are a little nostalgic and iffy about doing some of the others, the older ones we got first. Loudmouth was the first one who got a real name. I nursed her back to health when she broke her leg (I may have also possibly ran her over...chickens are not fast). But she isn't laying and I hate to just waste feed on the ones that have stopped. We'll see.
I get that an animal nursing home isn’t practical. And I’m all about harvesting your own meat. But when the time comes for us to do that, I want to make it as easy on ourselves as possible. As long as I only have the three, and they constantly follow me around the yard, I guess we’ll have to look elsewhere for our meat. :)