I ate a chicken..

[Vamoosh]

I keep hens for eggs, we acquired the current hens and cockerel because a friend was moving house and couldn’t take them. One of the hens was broody last year and hatched 3 chicks that turned out to all be male.
We have recently had them humanely dispatched and I prepared them and ate them. They have always been free range in our garden so have had a decent life and a stress free death.
A few different friends have been appalled that I’ve eaten my ‘pets’ and have reacted like I’ve cooked up my dog! (I will add that all of these friends eat meat!!)
AIBU for eating the cockerels?

Rabbits And Guinea pigs

I find it a bit strange and creepy but I don't eat meat so I would think that anyway. How on earth did you manage to kill them humanely? Better to do it that way then some poor battery hens from the supermarket though.

Humane killing is rather a paradox. No death is pleasant. However, a quick death is preferable to a long drawn out one through illness and old age, and becoming a predator's dinner while still conscious is the not the choice I'd go for. What kind of death do you think awaits animals naturally? They all die.

I suppose no, you are not being unreasonable at all.
But I couldn’t have done that!

unless all your friends who are holding judgement are strict ethical vegans, please tell them to go swivvel.

Absolutely nothing wrong with what you did. Im sure thier factory farmed supermarket chicken is eaten totally guilt free by them!

How do you humanely kill an animal?

What kind of death do you think awaits animals naturally? They all die

I wonder this too. Watching nature programmes and animals dying in the wild is fcking BRUTAL. They get mauled, ripped apart bit by bit, they get tossed around in the air, they get their limbs ripped off etc

I dont know why anyone would think an animal dying "naturally" is humane or kind in any way, shape or form.

We seem to have lost sanity here. If you eat meat the one requirement should be a good life and a swift despatch, after that it is meat. I personally do not feel I could kill one , although I had to chop of the head of a cockerel after the (pet? ah sweet) fox savaged most of my hens and left him with a broken neck.
People who pet animals to the level of anthropomorphising them really should be vegetarians, other wise it is hypocricy

They walk into a slaughter house alive and breathing and leave chopped up and wrapped in plastic. Yet we like to think something humane happens along the way?

Absolutely not. Circle of life, they've had a good innings.

How do you humanely kill an animal?
Quickly and painlessly, its not hard to do! They dont know whats coming so arent stressed at all.

willow don't be ridiculous. Have you ever been to a slaughter house? Of course they know what's coming. The best case scenario would be the method that ok used. But a life in a cage before having your throat slot is no life at all.

CoronelSuarez

I meant if you are raising your own chickens, ducks etc. Not a slaughterhouse.
Did I mention anything about being in a cage?

You didn't say either willow and the comment about the the cage was referencing the general thread.

willow I'm not sure that killing any animal unless to end suffering/pain that can't be helped is humane

If it has been bred to be eaten, fed watered and had a good life or it has roamed free for years living in the wild and its end comes quickly without it even realising it then thats a humane killing.

I can't believe you've eaten Bernard, Colin and Derek

Sorry...backtrack... you PREPARED them! I’m more shocked by that. I’ve eaten sheep/cows that I knew personally, and killed a chicken that was badly injured, but removing the feathers and internal bits is yucky!