slaughter

New to the hobby, was wondering what type of Feed or additional fruits and vegetables people have added to their Quail flock before processing Males? Does the diet effect the flavor? Appreciate all replies in advance!

A raccoon got in my hen house and dragged away my favorite. The other two were slaughtered and just...... left. The roosters are unharmed. How do I keep this from happening again???

We will be processing our first meatbirds in the fall (6 Cornish X from Meyer Hatchery). My fiance grew up in Europe and remembers killing the meat chickens on his grandparents' farm by chopping off the heads, so originally we just planned to do that. But the more I research, the more I'm unsure...

A raccoon just got into my sister's backyard coop and killed one of her egg hens. We chased the raccoon off but the bird quickly died. She was not very mangled, a small amount of blood on the head is the only sign of injury. Now we are wondering if we can eat the bird. I hung it by its feet in...

Hi All!:) Hopefully someone has some insight here. Let me start by saying we are loving our chickens and the wife and I can both see us enjoying this enough to create a business out of it. We are about to close on a house with 5 acres, so super exciting times as per ordinances we can add to...

I have 19% finisher feed and can't find any grower feed in our local area, is it possible that I can just use this instead of grower feed or does finisher feed have something in it that is meant to only be given to chickens who will be butchered soon.

has anyone here recorded the mass of a chicken pre-slaughter and then its mass after processing it(removing its guts and feathers etc). If anyone here has I would really like to know those records. I'm curious to see how much of the bird is actually the processed meat we get in the end.

Hello! Does anyone have experince with industrial evisceration tools? I am processing at least 100 birds every year and it would be nice to cut down on time. Especially an evisceration fork would be helpful. Does anyone know where to get one?

I had the second attack from a predator in less than one month. They attack in the morning. Maybe foxes. I slaughtered all my chickens. I had to. I don't have money to improve my coop and make it better. I don't want to poison predators and other animals. But, I will continue posting and...

Apparently I am helping my mom slaughter one of her Muscovy drakes today. How do we do it? I slaughtered a turkey back in November with just a hatchet - it worked but took several whacks. Felt and looked absolutely torturous. But, that is what all the videos online showed. Mom says she has a...

We were away for the holidays and one of our hens died under our neighbors watch. He put her in our freezer thinking we would prefer not to waste the meat, which is true. We figured we would process her when we returned. So we have an entire bird, feathers and all, that has been in the freezer...

Hi there, I'm relatively new to keeping chickens, and see them generally as pets. I don't raise for meat, and have decided to keep retired layers as pets through their natural lifespan. However, for the first time, I'm considering culling some of my hens, and would like some feedback...

Here is a pick of the meat birds I’ve been raising. I’m not exactly sure on their age (stupid me, I lost track), so I’m wondering if they’re ready yet or if they need another week. This is my first time raising chickens of any kind. TIA! BE779A21-F240-4B07-AEFF-EDA303EAFDE7 by Kaycie Jones...