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Leghorns for Meat???

post #1 of 5
4/18/12 at 5:40pm
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Well I know they are not a meat bird...at all.. but I have to cull this weekend, way too many fall hatch left overs that didn't sell.. So the big question is..is it worth trying to salvage any meat off their bony little corpses, or should they just go into the dumpster???? I'm not sure what I would do with such a small bird....Oh, and they are 7 months old--if that makes any difference :/

 

Any help would be appreciated! Thank youfrow.gif

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post #2 of 5
4/18/12 at 5:57pm

heck.. we eat quail.. pigeons.. bantams.. silkies.. so there's ALWAYS a use for a small bird.. if nothing else they make good soup stock!

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post #3 of 5
4/19/12 at 12:31am

I've butchered leghorns.  It's good flavored meat.  Smaller than a super market chicken, but bigger than a Cornish game hen.

 

I wouldn't buy them to raise for meat, but as long as you've already got them, then yes, butcher them. It's worth the effort.

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post #4 of 5
4/19/12 at 4:23am
Our first trial meat birds were leghorns. They taste better than supermarket birds. I'd say go for it.

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"There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere." --Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

What I'm reading now:  Bullspotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation, by Loren Collins.

 

 

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post #5 of 5
4/19/12 at 2:33pm
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Glad to hear other people have tried it :)

 

I have never cooked/prepared cornish game birds...and when we hunt quail/ dove we pull off the breast--and forego the attempt at processing/gutting . So processing a whole tiny bantam sized bird is going to be interesting..

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