Posts by bigredfeather

Quote: Originally Posted by Connorrm      48 cents a pound?! How is that possible!? I'd like to know as well.

Mmmmmmmm.........Buff Orpington leg quarters (in my Homer Simpson voice).  Absolutely my favorite chicken to eat.

For the past several years I have raised only Cornish Crosses (about 1800 of them) for meat purposes.  I had my fair share of issues in the beginning, but felt I had a good handle on raising them.  So this year I decided to...

After dipping my arm elbow deep in my chilling barrel with ice and water to retrieve dressed birds, I'm not sure I could tolerate it any colder, LOL.  As others have said, just plain ice water does a fine job.  I also pride...

Quote: Originally Posted by Sundown_Farmer   .................Plan an hour to get ready and maybe 15 minutes per bird as you figure things out and get over the gross factor.  ......and then figure on...

Quote: Originally Posted by ranchruler@gmail.com  Hey over the weekend I had 18 birds die from heat because I moved all the tractors and put ice packets in them but then I got a cell phone call and forgot to move the...

After losing 25 FR's last week, I butchered the remaining ones yesterday.  I'm afraid they wouldn't have made it thru the next few days here (supposed to be 100+).

I get $3.50/pound for my pastured CX (already butchered) and I charged $4/pound for my Bourbon Reds/Blue Slates last year.  The 1,000 can include turkeys.

The cost to raise a CX to butcher weight is going to dramatically vary depending on where you are at.  I can tell you a CX will have eaten 16-20 pounds of feed at 8 weeks.  Mine usually dress out at 5 pounds.  So if you...

We have 2 adults and 4 kids.  We eat chicken about 8 meals per week.  We put around 150 birds in the freezer per year.  We've gotten to the point where we cut up almost all our birds.  We end up with a...