>>450988 >>450989 There's also the danger iron poisoning to consider if you're going to be eating that much rabbit. I thought this was well known among us type of people.
>>450994 I remember an episode of QI where Stephen Fry said that you'll starve to death if you only eat rabbit, because they lack various vitamins and things that you need to live. Nobody on there understood what he meant, asking if rabbits were poisonous or and wondering why you couldn't just eat more rabbits once you start getting ill. It must have been quite a memorable episode, because I hate QI and hardly ever watch it, so I'm impressed I remember this one.
>>450989 Look into small fowl if you want to go the route of growing your own meat, but are lacking large amounts of land to do it on. Some birds go from egg to harvest in 10 weeks, so a fairly small flock can still offer fresh meat on a daily basis.
>>451209 Pardon me, I meant to ask how small of a flock would be able to provide fresh meat daily. If I took a picture of my garden would you be able to tell me if its big enough?
If they go from egg to harvest in ten weeks, then I am guessing ten. Assuming your meat consumption is not such that one bird can't last a week, in which case make it fifteen or twenty. Remember you also get the eggs, which are as good as meat. Meat precursor.
Rather than the dystopian insect and soy protein future vegans and assorted self-flagellating machochistic mentalists want for us, I'd much rather see a world where everyone has the capability of rearing a few chickens in their garden, maybe a pig or something, and a little patch of veg. It would be un-feasible to have everyone growing all their food that way, but it would go a long way to reducing our reliance on absurd shit like shipping stuff from Florida just for you to leave half of it in the fridge and then chuck it out when it goes bad.
Then again that requires everyone to have a garden, which means everyone has to live in some sort of low density suburb, and we know those are the least efficient way of living for transportation and such. Maybe once we all work from home and the city centre dies as a concept; but that's a blinkered middle class pipe dream too, and the only people who believe it will ever happen are naive cunts who don't realise just how much shit goes into the daily running of society, that can't be done remotely, because it requires actually doing things with your hands.
So it's back to square one- Let's just kill half the humans on the planet so the remaining ones can still eat meat and enjoy life. There's no point humanity existing if we're all going to be a set of joyless wankers eating Sarah Millican's Squelchy Fanny Custard.
>>451234 What are you aiming for? Cheaper, tastier, greener, more ethicl, more resilient after armageddon, something to eat all the slugs, avian companionship, bestiality, other?
I don't know anyone who keeps chickens for meat, it's more usually for eggs and because they're fun to have around.
If you're aiming for cheaper, you'll struggle. You're up against some very streamlined competition growing quite specific and un-fun chickens.
Bear in mind you can't legally feed chickens kitchen scraps, and they'll not get what they need from scratching around your garden, so you'll be getting through a fair amount of chicken feed.
