Completely gone off Chicken

Nope. Still enjoy it very much. But not cheap 'n' nasty stuff.

Don't like the thought of them suffering.

Rob

Nope but we only knowingly eat free range  

I'd like to grow some for meat one day too.

They're definitely not baby chickens unless you have a cockerel.  

They're merely gifts from your hens for looking after them. If you didn't eat them, they'd go mouldy and no-one would be happy.

So you're actually doing them a HUGE favour by pinching them every day and pigging out on them !!  

Rob

I know exactly how you feel Katt!  The minute our chickens arrived in the garden I dound I looked at chicken meat completely differently  

I think it's because I'd never really been close up to a live chicken before; now when I see them in the butchers (I'm very fussy about the meat I buy) I'm can see the bird behind the meat, if you know what I mean ... I usually find myself looking at them thinking 'well that one was definitely a boy, much bigger than Dorothy or Celia'   :roll:  :roll:

OH became completely squeamish about eating chicken - although he was the one that insisted we had to be "completely unsentimental about eating them once they've stopped laying eggs"  - er, yes, that was before they actually arrived.  He even feels guilty eating an egg sandwich sitting in the garden with the girls freeranging around him  :oops:

Am starting to get used to it now - forced myself to buy a chicken for roasting a few weeks ago just to make sure it didn't become completely taboo  

But was in the supermarket with my son earlier today, helping him do his shopping - was quite upset by all the chicken legs in the freezer section.  Not nice, particularly when I know they won't have had a nice life beforehand  :cry:

Talking of which, I'm going to give another plug to Hugh Fearnley-Whitting-whatsit's Chicken Out! campaign and his latest attempts to help Tesco see the error of their ways ...

http://www.chickenout.tv/major-announcement2.html