I have a problem!! i can t eat chicken who i have in my own yard.....

icesmile,it is good that you have few chickens in yard.i like to eat chicken and i have to buy in market.yes,i understand your feeling,i know some people who raise dog and they eat them,in my father's yard he never did so.what he said like you,they won't eat them cause they used to be friends with my parents.

You are not weird at all. If I had a farm with chickens I too would never be able to eat it. They would feel like my pets too and especially that you gave them names. I will only eat chickens from the supermarket. I believe there are alot of people like us out there. Have a great weekend! Enjoy your next chicken from the store.

Icesmile, I understand completely. I've never been able to eat anything I've seen alive. The includes fish and meat of all kinds. When they're already butchered and packaged at the supermarket,somehow, it seems different. There's not much logic to it, but that's the way it is.

I have that same problem too... when I was young I lived on a farm and we used to raise chickens. I never ate chicken during that time because I felt I betrayed them.. you know we look after them only for them to be dinner was very painful for me so I never ate chicken. Even now, I cannot eat a chicken that I've watched being slaughtered.. I had my favorite two chickens .. Rosita and Rosanna.. sadly Rosita got molded by the neighbor's dog and Rosanna got bitten by a snake.. but the two years that I had them were precious.. they gave us so many eggs!! I still miss them till today.. I haven't raised chickens since and that was like 15 years ago..

I have chickens for eggs and insect control, but absolutely not for eating. It's very rude to eat someone you know personally.

This is a dilemma for all of us who keep chickens. Naming them makes it worse. Sadly my kids are able to name them all no matter how many of them we keep. I get to do the dirty deed and to make it easier on the rest of the family I usually do four or five them at at time. Gutted and plucked it's hard to tell them apart. I had a rooster that I could not butcher myself. I'll tell you the little story and I'm sure you'll understand why. We would toss them leftovers and stuff and my wife told me that the big rooster was too slow because he never got any of it. I felt sorry for him and one day I had a slice of old bread, carefully tore off a piece and offered it directly to the rooster. He took it from me and laid it on the ground for the hens. I was astonished. I gave him another piece and he did the same thing. He passed every piece of the entire slice of bread to the hens. He did not eat one crumb. I don't know if my wife believed me when I told her but she had to try it herself when I wasn't home. She added a twist. The rooster was there by himself and the hens were around the corner of the house. He took the bread from my wife laid in on the ground and went and fetched the hens. This rooster would face any danger to protect the hens. Not only that he was gentle enough that any of my children could pick him up and pet him without fear or being pecked or scratched. Could any of you have butchered him?

This is not weird at all. My husband and I are the exact same way, and so are my mother and my sister. I've never lived on a farm, but my husband has, and my mother lives on one now. My husband likes to say "if I don't want to eat it, I give it a name." Our animals (all of them) are our pets. Eating eggs is one thing since the eggs were not fetalized, but to eat a chicken that I knew when it was alive? That's a different story. And now a funny story for you. My mother married into a family whose members mostly live on family farms. I was visiting my Uncle Mack and his family one weekend. We were eating a turkey for dinner. I remember telling Mack how delicious the turkey was. His answer was "yeah, and fresh too. At 3 PM this afternoon, he was wandering around the driveway, probably saw your car pull up." I still like turkey meat, but I didn't eat any more of THAT particular turkey. I don't want to know my meat personally, before I eat it. You are not weird at all.

You will get a lot cleaner, better quality and a lot healthier chicken out of your yard than you will the super market. The feed they feed the chickens we buy in the market would have to be3 harming people that eat it. You can wet that feed and put a little of it on the back of your hand and it will burn like fire. I have just about quit eating chicken you buy. Just don't get so friendly with them or have someone else kill them for you. Art

It's understandable. You've gotten close to them, and you'd never want to harm them! That's fine :) If you get your eggs off them, then obviously they're not going to waste, so that's perfectly fine. I wouldn't want to eat my pet rabbit, and that's exactly the same principle if you think about it. So enjoy your supermarket bought chickens, and don't worry about not wanting to eat your pet ones- if I'm honest, I wouldn't want to either!

Hello Icesmile : I got the same experience same as you when i was a boy in high school.My family fed a hen and treated it as a pet .We built a nest and washed it every week .Surely ,she bring us lots of eggs ....After two years,the hen didn't lay eggs any more .So my father decided to kill it .When i ate it's meat,i felt a very sorry feeling ... It's a regret .

Half of my age now spent in my hometown, and i clearly remember my father use to kill chicken every time one family members has birthday and he even dipped his fingers to a fresh blood of chicken then put it on the forehead of the one have birthday.. old province people have this kind of belief. I can eat from our yard chicken meat no big deal. No you are not weird at all, it is i think a normal feeling of you for chickens that you consider as pets especially you even give names, so again, you not weird.

I remembered, when i was young, my grandparents also have a chicken farm. They feed those chicken for eggs and own consume,too. But, whenever they said they cook chicken from own farm, i would started to avoid eating those meat. They ever asked me and i said i just don't dare to eat those chicken that being feed by my own family. I said, those chicken are just like pets to me..They understand it, so they will always exchange their chicken with nearby neighbor, whenever they want to cook chicken for me to eat..I really pity my grandparents, had to do that way just to make sure i eat meat..

when you buy chicken at the store, aren't you just as responsible for their deaths? You are just paying extra for the hatchet man. Store chickens are cooped up and never move around or roam. By killing and eating your chicken, that means 1 less raised the bad way. They need to outlaw the way chickens are raised today.

There is nothing wrong if you want to buy chicken from the store or eat the chickens inyour yard. It's up to you. If you do want to eat your own chickens don't name them like pets or anything or play with them and remind yourself that they are for food.