I start butchering my jakes at 6 months. They grow the frame first and then start putting on meat. Around 18 months mine are about as meaty as they get.
Catch is the Canon ink that costs more than the printer.
But I don't print very often. I have printed a DZ pages this year. All of prints of the property they are going to take or use to widen the Rd I live on.
Someone gave me their old printer scanner because the hinge was broken. It worked great. I got ink for it a couple times online. The ink cartridges tripled in price and would have been $50 . They were drying out before I used them up. I didn't use it much and went without for a couple years...
I have meat mutts chickens, part CX, and heritage turkeys.
I eat either a 5lb chicken or half a turkey a week. Almost all are homegrown.
Before I got covid I was harvesting 6 chickens and 2 turkeys at a time.
Nowadays I do 2 chickens or a turkey at a time.
The old injured birds I have...
I kept and butchered about 300 ft away from my flock . Washing the area , clothes and boots several times. Of course one of my hens got out and wandered up to the butcher site after the clean up 😕
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