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    Rooster Roasting

    Hi Jeff, thx for the insight on the cockerals, capons and Roosters. It helps me out a lot trying to figure out how old is to old to still cook with dry heat. In order to get the full flavor of the chicken, I would always want to Roast or Rotesserie. I have about 10 to 12 cockerals in the 16 to...
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    Rooster Roasting

    I guess my question to you is, why doesn't any one here know ????? We hatched out over 50 Buff Orpington chicks, of course we had a lot of roosters in the mix. I sell the 12 week old roosters for $8 the Pullets for $15. I paid for all the feed and feeders by selling 26 chickens. Now that I know...
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    Rooster Roasting

    We tried one of the 16 week old 4 lb roosters on the rotisserie tonight. The breast meat was melt in your mouth tender, leg meat was tender, thigh meat not as tender but good flavor. I would do this again in a heart beat. We processed the roosters on Sat morning, so they rested for 3 days. No...
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    Took chickens to butcher for first time yesterday

    I tell my little girl, our animals depend on use for food, shelter and safety. It's up to us to make sure they have a good clean happy life. We will be there in the beginning and at the end. Who, other than my hand, would I want to comfort her in the end..................Bill
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    Rooster Roasting

    This is our corn field, The second field is coming into it's own, time to try the corn. The Chickens had about 12 cobs this morning they all had smiles on their beeks. The Chicken livers are from the four Roos we processed Saturday.......I thought a Chicken liver breakfast with our Fresh...
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    Rooster Roasting

    I use a Traffic cone to process the chickens. one person holds the feet, another holds the head and cuts the jugular. The chicken then slides down into the cone and bleeds out, no mess and the chicken isn't able to move. It kills me to see they sell killing cones for $25 to $30, when your a...
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    Rooster Roasting

    Hey Chef, thx for all the info. I have a field of corn, the boys are eating well. We took down two on Thursday and four yesterday. I use to do a lot of demo cooking in our catering business. I still have my wok jet burners, they come in handy to get water boiling fast. My Son is also a Chef, so...
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    Rooster Roasting

    It looks like no one eats Roosters around this chicken coop...................Well I do..........this is the Coq au Vin I made today out of one of the 3.5 lb birds above............ served it with a Cajun Roasted Potato.........
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    Hi From Eastern Washington State

    Hi All, new guy from Washington State. We raise pigs, cows, Buff Orpington chickens, corn for feed and finishing some of our animals. We have the Chickens out on the pasture free range, The Calf, who now thinks he's a pig because he grew up with our li'l piggy who got hurt so we put him with the...
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    Rooster Roasting

    Hi all, new guy in town, needs a bit of help with getting it right. I'm a Chef, haven't had any reason to cook Roosters in our business. I have Buff Orpington Chickens, we hatched out about 50 chicks about 16 weeks ago. I sold off about 25 hens and Roosters, now have the amount of Hens I want...
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