I've been lurking, rarely posting, while I raised five or six hundred meat birds over the last couple years. I thought I had learned a lot from this forum, but apparently I wasn't paying quite close enough attention. If you are relatively new to raising your own birds and still figuring...
This is a little left of the topic but it appears Meat Birds might be the best place to ask this question... you never know how some people might react when you start talking about butchering birds in the wrong company
I smoked a couple wild ducks over the weekend with the intention of making...
I ordered 25 Cornish X's from a local hatchery in early August, thinking I would start small and maybe do another batch of 25 before the end of the hatching season to really fill my freezer.
This was my first experience.
Well, 9 weeks later, I am shocked to figure out that those 25 chickens...
I've had some Cornish Crosses going since August 6th. I've never done meat chickens like this before... some of them are staring to to look pretty large. They have very well developed combs and they seem quite large to me. I figure they are probably males.
I had planned to do them all on the...