Well glad to hear someone else butchers pullets!
We all have out individual goals, management techniques, facilities, and ways of doing things. I could sell pullets instead of eating them if I wanted to but that just doesn't suit me. If I only ate cockerels I'd have to hatch twice as many chicks and since I seldom get a 50-50 split on sex at hatch probably more than that to be assured of a chicken a week to eat. That would mean I'd spend more on food and I'd need larger facilities. There are only two of us so we get two meals out of a small pullet. I cook them the same way as cockerels. The only practical difference in eating a larger cockerel instead of a pullet is that I get some leftover chicken for lunch.
Do your hens ever have a yellowish liver?
Yes, not all livers are that dark brown, some can be fairly light. That doesn't bother me as long as the color is solid. If they are mottled or somehow look weird they go to the dogs.
We all have out individual goals, management techniques, facilities, and ways of doing things. I could sell pullets instead of eating them if I wanted to but that just doesn't suit me. If I only ate cockerels I'd have to hatch twice as many chicks and since I seldom get a 50-50 split on sex at hatch probably more than that to be assured of a chicken a week to eat. That would mean I'd spend more on food and I'd need larger facilities. There are only two of us so we get two meals out of a small pullet. I cook them the same way as cockerels. The only practical difference in eating a larger cockerel instead of a pullet is that I get some leftover chicken for lunch.
Do your hens ever have a yellowish liver?
Yes, not all livers are that dark brown, some can be fairly light. That doesn't bother me as long as the color is solid. If they are mottled or somehow look weird they go to the dogs.