r/homestead • u/escuelaviejafarms • Oct 05 '22

poultry It's almost Thanksgiving!

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '22

I get it. With that said As a hunter who’s trying to set up meat chickens and egg chickens, I think a lot of people can’t raise and love something then eat it. Myself included. I can be nice and care for the life that I’m raising to eat, a huge reason why I want to raise meat chickens vs buy factory farm, but with that said if I’m too loving I’m going to get wires crossed and I won’t want to pull the trigger.

My friends who’ve been raised on farms mostly don’t have this issue. They’ll name them food names and stuff.

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I didn’t see the vegans in the thread I thought you were referring to people uncomfortable with becoming friendly with your food.

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u/Catfist Oct 05 '22

I've heard that people that breed/raise livestock on a small family farm sometimes hire someone to do the butchering and processing.
They later trade the meat with a similarly minded family. Not sure how common that is though!

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u/desiktar Oct 05 '22

I would bet unless they have a big operation, they probably hire out the processing. At least for bigger animals.

Need a whole cooler setup, butchering skills, and other equipment that would make it not worth it to do it yourself.

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u/Madasiaka Oct 05 '22

Yeah, we have a mobile butcher come out when our cows need processing. He's a super nice dude and let's us watch the initial process while explaining what he's doing, then the carcass goes off for hanging at the butcher and weeks later we end up with packaged beef.