Millymollymandy wrote:boboff wrote:The people who run it / moderate it are, how shall we say, rather proud of their forum, and woe betide you if you post anything in the wrong section, IT WILL BE MOVED!
Oh dear that's what I do here!
That's a moderator's job. No arguments from me here.
I'm just really bored with people thinking I'm cruel because me hens don't have names, the only reason the one that died was buried rather than going on the compost heap was because she'd had a cough and might be diseased and I called the two that wandered off to live with next door's cockerel floozies rather than being traumatised by their loss. Then again, this is the woman who's had a dog called Dog (when we got him, an 18 month old Pyrenean who was on his way to be put down because his owners had got a new job with tied accommodation and couldn't take him) and currently has a cat called Nameless. Maybe I'm not the best person to ask
Incidentally, my boys have always known that meat is dead animals, although the first time I took them into a proper butcher's and they saw half a cow hanging up, they were a bit surprised by it. Still, it reminds me of the time, when my eldest was about 4, that we were in some random supermarket doing some shopping and we were asking them did they want cow or pig or chicken or sheep for dinner. A woman came up to us and asked if we would mind not talking about meat as if it was animals because her daughter (clearly at least junior school age) didn't know where meat came from! Even our ds was surprised by that one.
But they watched the HFW and JO programmes about chickens and the JO programme about pigs. Then again, they're now 10 and nearly 13 so I figure they can handle it. They care for the hens we have, and the youngest's school has chickens, goats ducks and rabbits which all the boys are responsible for and know that they're not something to get sentimental about. And today, they're so proud of themselves because their National Beekeepers' Assocation memberships arrived in the post.
That's my boys!
Lynne
but does anyone know of a hen keepers' forum that ISN'T full of people who gush over how they've "rescued" battery hens, written poems about them, have them sitting on their laps watching telly.........you get the idea. I swear if I see one more poem to a chicken off lay or ode to a poor lost soul (when one of them does what they do best and falls off the perch) I'll throw up all over my keyboard! 
he is at this very moment turning our shed into a chicken coup with a large run,and i`m going down to the mart to look at the chickens there,not to buy today of course 
