u/Acceptable-Drive3781

Do chickens really NEED all their eggs?

Here's the thing. I'm vegan, so I'm immune from criticism. So don't come at me. I bought a few egg-laying hens (they're so cute with their flat beaks!) from the local big-box store where people buy supplies for their tractors. I built them a coop, and I keep them locked up tight so they can't move. And for safety or whatever. Anyway, these chickens lay a LOT of eggs! Like, way more than they should probably eat themselves. Maybe. I dunno, everything I've read says that chickens can eat eggs, but like, do they need ALL of their eggs? Wouldn't it be harmful if they ate ALL of their eggs? Surely it would be fine, and still vegan, if I were to take their eggs and eat them myself, or even sell them. For the animals. I'm sure there are studies out there somewhere that says that chickens can't eat all their eggs and it could even be harmful if they were to eat that many. I can't find any, so hopefully someone else can find them for me. I don't have a lot of time to look into it myself, I'm quadrupling the size of my coop and getting 3 dozen more egg-laying hens. I've found it can be quite profitable to sell the chickens' bonus eggs that they probably shouldn't eat themselves.

While we're on the subject, how much milk can a baby cow drink all by itself? 🤔

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 — 2 days ago

Vegans are mad my vegan restaurant serves chicken?

I've run a vegan restaurant for just over 12 years in my community. But lately, there has been a LOT of push-back when we added honey-roasted bbq chicken to our menu. The preachy terminally-online militant vegan crowd has been up in arms about this menu change, demanding perfection. But what they don't realize is that veganism is a journey. It's okay to be 80% vegan, and to try our best to live life according to values, except for sometimes. And policing other vegans does nothing to advance our cause, and does more harm than good in fact. A non-vegan seeing all of this vegan infighting would be turned away from veganism altogether if they saw what absolute perfection it takes to be vegan, and everyone knows that the only reason anyone becomes vegan in the first place is to have non-vegans shower us with praise.

Anyway, I just wanted to invite everyone to my vegan restaurant, and to be sure to try out the new menu items, especially the honey-roasted bbq chicken! Try it with the ranch dip, it's to die for (lol because a chicken literally died for it). Go vegan!

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 — 10 days ago