"Pete" wrote in message
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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That's your own opinion, Pete. Whilst I agree if you rely on egg sales
for your daily bread of course they have be killed and replaced, if you
don't and you wish to keep them after a few years of good production to
give a retirement I think that is perfect.
Unless you don't have room for the new ones, but luckily I do. If you
don't then you just have to go out there one evening, snatch them off
their perch when they are going to bed (best time, so as not to upset
them) and break their necks.

Well --

even if you are not relying on egg sales for your daily bread, it makes
little sense in keeping unproductive birds.
If you reclassify them as pets - then its up to you- still a waste of feed
that could be put in to producing eggs.

It not a lot to do with "daily bread" - just simple economics !

OK, go out there and screw their necks then! It's easy for some, but not
me.
Imagine, walking down the path towards their house where they think they are
safe and have been for many years. They are used to you and trust you, so
if you take them off there they think they are OK.
Sorry I can't do that. I'd rather pay a bit for their food with no return
so they can geriatric around after their lifetime of service.
I can, and have, killed them if they were were ill and suffering, but I will
not do it merely because they are old.
I'm not as young as I was once myself.
Tina