An eco-narcissist speaks
My city chicken blog publish is the gift that keeps on giving. It's been busily collecting remarks in the weeks because it on the grounds that regarded and last night time a self-proclaimed eco-narcissist named Jerry attempted to take me to assignment, factor through point. Indeed.
Jerry, it's my weblog and I can write about something I bloody nicely please. But in reality, Jerry thinks I'm a heartless prick. Someday Jerry, we're going to have a talk about hyperbole. In the intervening time although, Jerry has lots to say and I'm afraid that Jerry's essential factors might be ignored if they remained buried on the cease of a 3-week-old blog post. He seems to need an audience so I'm going to offer it to him.
Ladies and gents, allow me introduce you to Jerry the eco-narcissist. His words seem intact, I actually have changed nothing.
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Paul, I (obviously) be counted myself amongst the ones ideological eco-narcissists that endorse city fowl, and I sense compelled to reply in your rant in opposition to birds that (except you have got forsaken eggs and chook from the grocery save are actually both passively and actively abusing. Passively with the aid of helping the agri-enterprise practices of business egg farms, and actively along with your comments here.
First as has been talked about roosters are not required for eggs, and no person I recognize of is advocating for roosters in an urban placing. Bringing up roosters is just silly, so let;s communicate approximately HENS.
For starters I have a certified flock of five hens from which we common 4 eggs in keeping with day. "Do we want eggs?" is now a joke whilst we pass them within the grocery save. And as to satisfactory Mother Earth News (I know, eco-narcissists, proper?) commissioned a take a look at and located that pastured eggs like the ones from my returned yard incorporate more Omega-3s and different proper stuff, and less cholesterol and different awful stuff. And they do taste better. The ones from the grocery store? They flavor just like the grocery store. If you have ever grown a tomato and acquired one in the shop and tasted the distinction you understand what I am speaking approximately.
Loud? Compared to a dog barking all night time, I'll take some daylight clucking any day. Besides, they do sleep at night time, and so do I.
Smelly? If hens, their coop or run odor bad it is from extreme forget about. A modicum of attempt (1 minute/day) can hold that underneath manage. Again less complicated to smooth up after than a canine. I NEVER have to stroll across the community with a little bag of chook poop!
KFC? You mean Kentucky Fried Cruelty? If you had any idea how THOSE chickens lived you'll assume two times approximately permitting that in your metropolis.
Salmonella? Again you're confusing us with the ones nasty factory farms. The situations of even the most informal coop are a long way too clean to allow salmonella or the more severe hazard of e.Coli0157 to be an trouble. Thank you for not bringing up hen flu. That could were surely silly!
As to you and your brother being attacked by using chickens as kids I will best say that if I have been again and again outsmarted via a bunch of birds with brains the size of peas I might no longer be bragging approximately it. You had meals. They wanted food. You couldn't determine that out?
As for your photo of the butchering desk, I assume that is there for shock cost. I am one of the few chicken keepers who continues them strictly as a supply of protein. When they've lived their effective existence and stop laying all of my ladies will end up inside the stew pot. Yes, that may be a glad day. When we had Shaniqua and dumplings we celebrated the reality that she lived an amazing existence, died a painless demise, and provided for our family together with her eggs, poop and her very flesh. Yes, I still eat hen from the shop too, however I won't consume battery birds due to the fact THAT is merciless.
As to my experience I've been keeping chickens in an city, now not suburban, setting for five years and my friends are all getting their personal when and wherein they can. Yes there's a gaining knowledge of curve and mistakes were made. But I still suppose that keeping the farm out of the suburbs is the incorrect path. How about preserving the suburbs out of the farms?
And without a doubt, if you are going to unmarried out chickens (which is a humorous element to do) tell me how they are better than puppies?
My chickens do not threaten puppies, however puppies can threaten my hens (in the event that they get in the yard)
Hen poop will become natural fertilizer for those aforementioned tomatoes. Dog poop gets left all over the area where I step in it, it pollutes our rivers, and scents like, umm, poo.
My hens by no means assault everyone smarter than they may be. (Nothing private supposed by that :-) I cannot say that approximately the pit bulls round here.
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And there you have it, the eco-narcissist speaks. I don't know about you guys, but I'm hankering for a big 'ol bucket of KFC.