Hi, I'm doing a study about the consumption of different animals and am interested to know whether any pet chicken owners still eat chicken?

Thank you!

Yes I do eat chicken - I also raise a few for meat, as well as ducks and turkeys. I do have a few that are pets that for whatever reason, usually rescued ones, have stayed with us until old age - my oldest cockerel was 14yrs old, but they do have to earn their keep otherwise - I bought them for a purpose wether it's eggs/meat/breeding stock, and I don't name the edible ones!!

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hi, we have 3 bantam hens nugget, fajita and henrietta and yes i do still eat chicken it's my favourite meat.

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mammy to dai bach a sausage & dinky mash

I eat chicken.... But not the ones I keep as pets.

I'm a vegetarian and keep ex battary hens as pets. So obviously no it would be the same as eating dog if I had one as a pet. Makes you think doesn't it!

I eat chicken, but only ones that I can trace from local good farms. I also eat the cockerels I can't rehome when I hatch.

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Debs

Lives with a wonderful husband, 2 adorable rescue kitties Harry and Sabrina, and a flock of pampered pet chickens.

I eat chicken still. I rarely eat eggs though unless they are in things like cake! (haven't eaten many since the '80's and I discovered what battery farms were!)

When I lived on a smallholding, there were porkers (pigs bred for meat). My mum bought half a pig. I never ate any of that pork. Couldn't face eating an animal I had spoken too, stroked etc!

Yes I do. I also eat rabbits despite having them as pets.
So long as an animal has had a reasonable life I have no problem with eating them.

I still eat chicken but it usually bought from a butcher that comes here once a week. His chickens are tasty and free range, i couldn't eat a chicken that had no flovour. I also eat any cockerals that get from hatching eggs, altough this year i need to replace my old cockeral so one of them will get to live.

Yes, but these days are particularly fussy about where it comes from.

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My pets (sorry I can't upload any pics yet)
Cats
Candy (12) Neo and Simba (10) Del Boy (7))
Cockatiels
Undertaker (My OH's choice)(10) Souxsie(10) Sid(9) Rimmer and LIster(1) Ruhbarb and Custard(hatched july 2010)
Rats
Frosty and Jack(1)
Gerbil
Pepper(almost6) Pepper sadly no longer with us RIP pepper.
Its almost a zoo at home,but we love them all.