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Originally posted by originalhypa
Okay, I hate to admit this but.......... we had chickens when I was growing up.
Yeah, have your laughs, I know it makes me a redneck, but I'm one of the few here who can clean and cut a chicken, so there.
Anyway, we had a lot of chickens, in fact for years we never went to Safeway, or places like that. I'll agree that every once in a while they would get into scraps, but a well taken care of flock will never have a dead chicken in general population long enough for the others to have a snack. In fact, well fed flocks would rarely fight, as there was nothing to fight about.
Plus the taste was above and beyond mass produced fowl. Both meat, and eggs, I miss those days.
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As a feller white-boy from a small town, I had chickens too (and pigs). And no, a well taken-care of flock won't be killing each other all the time. But little scraps chickens have are often enough for them... I mean think of it, they peck at each other, picking each other apart bit by bit. Maybe it's not a huge issue that makes free-range unworthy of consideration, but it's still a funny fact to me.
Free range usually tastes a lot better than typically farmed chicken, but they often aren't very meaty.
Anyway, duck and goose > chicken * 10000
