Re: Keeping chickens

From: ex WGS Hamm (alpha.bitchREMOVETHIS_at_virgin.net)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:11:06 GMT

"E Gregory" <uepmeg@email.unc.edu> wrote in message
news:41d4777d_3@news.unc.edu...
>
> ok I was suspecting that you might be a spammer, and now I'm convinced.
> In your other post on the same day as this you wrote:
>
> "I was pondering this week about my hens. I am getting rid of a lot
> of the
> more ordinary stuff. Frankly I'm bored with pekins." (From post entitled
> "You don't *have* to be mad to keep poultry".)
>
> Doesn't sound as though you care much for your hens if you can just get
> rid of them on a whim like this, because you're bored with them!

 I am getting rid of them because in order to concentrate on the Belgian
bantams I have to make room. In order to play a part in helping avoid the
Barbu d' everberg becoming extinct I plan to breed them.
 I am a hobby breeder and care for all my birds, even the boring ones which
will be found new homes with caring people who want pekins. What did you
think I was going to do? Torture them to death, leave them out for the fox
to take? Drive far away and dump them in a field somewhere?
 There is a world of difference between someone selling poultry surplus to
requirements, and someone providing minimum care, giving them unsuitable
diets and not caring if they die and throwing them in the dustbin.
 I doubt you will see the difference though. There are none so blind as them
that do not wish to see.

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