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Everything animal wise is for personal consumption. I am a small scale brewer so my grains get fed to all my animals.
Typically egg layers are slaughterd after 2 years, my 8 yr old hens still produce eggs. And yes I would consider them a pet at this stage. Ive built automated egg laying coups for a semi large producer of eggs and I know how they are treated, 10 chickens in a 1.5'1.53, 3 rows high. No ability to walk. They also produce lower quality eggs
Yes all the animals we eat tend to have short lives but in my case longer than factory farmed animals (chickens 150-200 days vs 45)
Pigs get all the weeds from our garden, any leftovers from veggies to meats, the odd egg that breaks too
At one point we had 50 chickens and a mink got in and killed all but 5, none had been eaten, just killed for sport. That imo is needlessly killing.