Even if I could bring myself to eat them, I've cooked even YOUNG culls from a living-history-museum flock. "Mixed use" breeds are edible, but they aren't exactly tender. I'd rather just let them go when it's time. No matter how much the teenage roosters are driving me up a wall.
Hello! I've owned chickens for a while, though today was my first time mail-ordering one day old chicks (buff Brahmas, black cuckoo marans, and barred rocks, who will join a mixed flock when they're big enough.) I'm lucky to have a boss who loves chickens, too, and I'm hoping to meet more people...
