my new cud chewing beauty queen

[journey11]

You're not running a retirement home for old farm animals, lol. Were it their money, time and dedication that went into feeding and raising those animals, they'd figure out fast that these are not pets.

My sister and her husband took up farming this year. They've had 3 bull calves born out of the 3 bred cows they bought. I am really curious to see how this will go. They've also got over 30 laying hens too. Jumped right in with both feet. We came up Saturday before last to teach them how to butcher chickens and did up 4 cockerels. My sister wouldn't touch it. She got sicked out while I explained to her what equipment she needed to gather before we got there (which wasn't set up before we got there, btw...) They sent me by their house this Tuesday to get a container of cole slaw they forgot to grab for a family get together. There in the fridge I found the 4 chickens we had butchered over 10 days ago. She never got around to putting them in the freezer! I told her, well, they're coyote bait now. People get used to buying neatly packaged, nameless, faceless meat from the store. They have no inkling what went into raising and butchering it, no respect for what it took to get it to their plate.

 

[canesisters]

That's the part that bugs me the most - the lack of respect - for the life taken, for the time given, for the suffering endured (shuffle out to milk @4:30am in 31 degrees - yup, suffering for butter!), for the expense and the busted fingers and the aching back and the being so dead-dog tired that you realize that you've spent an hour that you can't even remember staring at the floor.... And for the breathtaking sunrises and the sunsets that stop you in your tracks to stand amazed, and the complete trust in furry (or feathered) faces that look to you to provide for them, and for the ridiculously unbelievable situations that have you belly laughing all alone in a field before dawn while rain SOAKED, and for the miracle of watching a flower become a melon, and for chicks hatching in your hand and for falling asleep in a sunny spot in the chicken coop with a hen in your lap and, and, and...... for the ENTIRE lifestyle that they are 'poo-pooing' as being something dirty and beneath them.

(getting off my soapbox now..)

 

[journey11]

Yes! This! ^^^^^^^

 

[baymule]

We get it Cane. We are with you all the way. I raise lambs. Hug a lamb and something in you just melts. But---we name the ewe lambs, castrate the ram lambs and call them Dinner.

Even our 10 year old grand daughter, who loves and adores the lambs is ok with slaughter. She doesn't want to be around for the slaughter, but she will eat the lamb, knowing it came from Mamaw's farm.

 

[thistlebloom]

That's the part that bugs me the most - the lack of respect - for the life taken, for the time given, for the suffering endured (shuffle out to milk @4:30am in 31 degrees - yup, suffering for butter!), for the expense and the busted fingers and the aching back and the being so dead-dog tired that you realize that you've spent an hour that you can't even remember staring at the floor.... And for the breathtaking sunrises and the sunsets that stop you in your tracks to stand amazed, and the complete trust in furry (or feathered) faces that look to you to provide for them, and for the ridiculously unbelievable situations that have you belly laughing all alone in a field before dawn while rain SOAKED, and for the miracle of watching a flower become a melon, and for chicks hatching in your hand and for falling asleep in a sunny spot in the chicken coop with a hen in your lap and, and, and...... for the ENTIRE lifestyle that they are 'poo-pooing' as being something dirty and beneath them.
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(getting off my soapbox now..)

It could not have been said more eloquently Cane. That should be on a plaque.

 

[ninnymary]

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Just told the woman who fills in for me at work that I need to be off on the 18th.
"Oh, taking a little vaca?"
"Naw, I gotta go with the hauler to take Carter to the processors."
"WHAT!!! Oh no! You really going to DO that to him??? Nooo. You kidding?? You're kidding aren't you. Oh noo."

good grief Get over it! Do I question YOUR life choices

This will get funny after a while..

This cracked me up!

Mary

 

[seedcorn]

Like the saying.

But you gave this steer no grain? Hope you like grass fed beef.

 

[baymule]

We have half a grass fed beef in our freezer, bought from a friend. It is delicious.

 

[seedcorn]

Nothing wrong with grass fed-why the French came up with so many sauces-to cover up the flavor.

I prefer grain fed-like flavor of fat. Very happy people like grass fed-probably healthier.

 

[thistlebloom]

Very happy people like grass fed-

Cane is a very happy person!
That's what you meant right?