Help - Just found a chicken!

As suggested by others:

Keep it for the eggs ( sell them if you don't want to eat them ? ).
Eat it.
Or sell it on to someone, surely a chicken is worth a few quid ?
 
Scuzi said:
Eating it is the most suitable course of action. Prolonging it's life is pointless unless you're going to make it a hut and keep it as a pet.
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Why not just kill all animals for eating on birth then if there is no point to prolonging their life? Or are there occasions where you'd want an animal to grow up to be better food?

Mohinder said:
They still come from chickens kept in captivity just to provide food for us, which can't be very nice for them. So if you're a proper animal lover you should want them to be roaming around... wherever chickens like to be. I have no idea where that is, to be honest.
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It depends where you get your eggs from, free range are usually the best you'll get in most supermarkets, barnyard raised aren't as good but still significantly better than battery farmed. Or keep your own chickens if you have space and can abide them to be sure of the quality of eggs and the quality of life for the hens. Bear in mind however they are occasionally noisy and almost invariably stupid in my experience, that said they are quite amiable things for most of the time.
 
Mohinder said:
They still come from chickens kept in captivity just to provide food for us, which can't be very nice for them. So if you're a proper animal lover you should want them to be roaming around... wherever chickens like to be. I have no idea where that is, to be honest.
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on sundays they like to be in the oven, not sure what they do with the rest of their week tho.
 
Scuzi said:
Yes, why not?
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Yes, you'd kill all animals for eating at birth? Bit of a poor meal I'd have thought. It seems the chicken in the OP might be young and therefore not ideal for eating at present when leaving it for a while and feeding it up could make for a better meal.

The whole point is academic given the dietary choices of Vegetarian but nevermind.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Yes, you'd kill all animals for eating at birth? .Bit of a poor meal I'd have thought. It seems the chicken in the OP might be young and therefore not ideal for eating at present when leaving it for a while and feeding it up could make for a better meal.

The whole point is academic given the dietary choices of Vegetarian but nevermind
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Yes. Yes I would.
 
OK Time for an update Sorry its been so long! "Dorothy" the chicken spent the night in our kitchen as it was raining and my back yard is userly full of Cats! She seemed perfectly at home as I found her the following morning sleeping in my laundary basket - it had pee'ed n poo'ed all night on top of my clothes :s

Anyway the RSPCA woman came the next day and took her away telling it "that was your last taste of freedom young miss" gulp!!!!
 
Given that the RSPCA seem far more interested in running shops than protecting animals, I'm surprised that they came to get her.

Well done to you for the original rescue though.
 
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