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Are they pets or cattle?

• cmeacham98 6y ago
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• frob 6y ago
  I refer to mine as petstock.
• jbluepolarbear 6y ago
  I haven’t had goats (really want some) but with chickens we would keep em until they stopped laying eggs and then we’d eat them. Some chickens that were more pet like would survive into old age, but most chickens are stupid and not really pets.
• bdsa 6y ago
  I really like the pets vs cattle analogy (or did when it was a newer thing and people needed convincing not to handcraft servers, that seems mostly in the past now for me, fortunately) but it's amusing just how inaccurate it is if you think about it. I'm pretty sure dairy farmers don't shoot cows in the head if they get sick, with the same carefree shrug I do when I terminate Kubernetes pods and nodes, but maybe they do?
  • floren 6y ago
    > I'm pretty sure dairy farmers don't shoot cows in the head if they get sick, with the same carefree shrug I do when I terminate Kubernetes pods and nodes, but maybe they do? Dairy farmers tend to be very practical about putting down animals that are past a certain point. If a 7 year old cow needs $N of surgery to live, but she can realistically only be expected to give another $N*0.5 worth of milk in her life, she's hamburger.