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The "thank you" is for me, not the chickens. Makes it a lil more palpable, makes me feel a tad better for killing an animal. Sure, a little selfish but hey, whatever helps you through the process... I've worked as a pipefitter for a few years, working in mostly food processing plants. it took...

Trust me, just take a look @ a commercial broiler set up, and you'll be loping off your own chickens heads in no time. I'm doing it solely for that purpose. It's still cheaper to buy chicken from the store, but for me it's the life of the animal. I wouldn't even call those birds chickens...

Yeah, for it to be cost productive, the extra expense of a butcher eliminates and raises the cost past the store bought. Which is why I'm giving a go and doing "batches" thoughout the year. Get em all done on a Sunday and reap the rewards for a few months. Rinse and repeat. With the proper...

Sometimes, that first step is the hardest. I remember my first time deer hunting. 11 years old, first morning, a HUGE buck walks out 25 yards broadside. Only thing on my mind was I'm gonna have to cut this things balls off and rip out it's guts. Didn't shoot. To this day, that was the biggest...

Yes, the prep time and labor....which is why I'm planning on doing 25 or so @ a time. Figure might as well make the day of it. Better to prep all at once than have to do it monthly. Going to find out how many I need in the freezer over winter and adjust the numbers, do one big harvest in the...

And I gotta quote dennis leary - " eating meat is an instinct, not eating it is a decision!"

No better way to eat them if the blood is on your hands I say! To each is own, but I get a sense of oneness with the planet, a lil more in touch with nature if it's done by my hand. Having to sit and watch them die, that's part of the process. Seems to me if you're going to raise them, eat...

I'll admit, one of my chickens I couldn't just harvest for tuesday's dinner plans. I also didn't get her to eat though. Now if she keeled over from say a blocked egg, or died some way besides a viral or bacterial disease, she'd go in crock pot as I wouldn't waste it, but knowingly harvest for...

It's the whole city/suburbia lifestyle. Sadly the majority of those in this country would not be able to survive if something drastic did happen. Skills of our grandparents are being lost at an alarming rate. While I do live in a modern suburb, we luckily found a treasure of a property. 6...

I've yet to butcher a chicken, but many a deer have fallen to my shotgun come november. The shooter field dresses, we all help drag it out, skin and butcher. So this fall when it's time for the chickens, it'll be no problem. I do not understand the ignorance behind it either, you can eat a...