"Paul M. Cook" > wrote in
news:TU7Bj.9025$wM2.878@trnddc07:

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> "enigma" > wrote in message
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>> hahabogus > wrote in
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>>> So...how do they eat without beaks?
>>
>> they actually cut just the ends of the beak off, not the
>> whole beak. it is, however, painful & unnecessary if the
>> birds are not kept under overcrowded, highly stressful
>> conditions. production eggs birds live less than 3 years.
>>
>
> As opposed to what? Their wild brethren, guinea fowl,
> can't live even that long in the wild. It isn't like they
> exactly retire you know, wild or domestic. I'm not into
> debeaking and I always buy certified free range eggs (real
> free range, not the technical free range.) But en
> emotional straw man argument using presumed early mortality
> is just plain silly.

no, they're bred to burn out. i have a flock of chickens & my
oldest hen is almost 6 years old. she still produces eggs, but
not one every 26 hours like a production bird, more like one
every three days. in a production setting she would be culled
because they aren't getting their money's worth out of her. in
my flock she's just as useful because she eats as many bugs as
the younger, more productive girls (none of whom are
production breeds as i dislike finding a chicken dead in the
coop at less than 2 years old)
and it's one thing to die from old age & another to die from
peritonitis from being bred to overproduce
lee
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