We keep toying with the idea of getting some meat chooks,but like Lynda said don't know how we'd cope!the fact that you get them at the cute fluffy stage & watch them grow makes it doubly hard,although my most recent way of thinking is once the 1st lot are meat we could get more cute fluffy chicks! whenever we were tempted to get kittens as kids my mum would always say they dont stay kittens forever;getting table birds could almost ensure a constant presence of cute little chicks!? Such a tough one!Really makes me feel like a hypocrite that I eat meat yet not prepared to rear my own,also I enjoy chicken but am really struggling to be able to afford to buy free range(haven't had anything but since we started keeping chooks a few yrs ago&would rather go without than buy cheap factory birds).Is there anyone out there who used to feel like this but has gone on to rear table hens?how did you cope,any tips?

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