Re: [Alpacasite] Re: Pet quality or fiber quality?

I know, I know, but at that age I did of course name them and gee, they were
"dairy " cows...when we started out no-one ever said anything about eating
anybody. Ah, I was young and it was the seventies ;-)

Barb Wilson
Alpacas of Pleasant Valley
Morrisville, NY 13408
www.alpacasofpleasantvalley.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Coussens" <kcalpaca@premier1.net>
To: <Alpacasite@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Alpacasite] Re: Pet quality or fiber quality?

>I knew a Greek shepard and he taught me that you do not name animals
> that are going to be your food.
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> Laura Coussens
> Kissin' Coussens Alpacas <www.alpacanation.com/kissincoussens.asp>
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> Alpacas of Pleasant Valley wrote:
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>>When I was about 11or12 we had a small dairy farm and all 37 cows and the
>>resident bull had names. When calves were born a truck came and took them
>>away a day or so after they were born so I had little chance to name them,
>>get attached or really think about exactly where they were going. All was
>>going well until "Clownie" fell and broke her hip. She was butchered and
>>put
>>in our freezer. I would eat no more meat until I saw that all those
>>packages
>>were gone. It wasn't that I didn't eat meat, I just didn't eat my friends,
>>she had a name. And that's where we are going to get into some serious
>>trouble, with cows, there are VERY few pets, whatever is not useful is
>>called dinner. Anybody watch the movie "Babe"? Now, if we could just teach
>>our non-breeder/pet quality/fiber gelding alpacas to be "sheep-pacas" ....
>>
>>Have a Good Day All!
>>Barb Wilson
>>Alpacas of Pleasant Valley
>>Morrisville, NY 13408
>>www.alpacasofpleasantvalley.com
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