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I made a big mistake in washing the feathers from my first butchered chicken. I put them in two mesh bags, and washed in the washing machine. Then dried in the dryer, still in the mesh bags. The feathers came out beautiful, clean, fluffy, and soft. BUT I completely clogged my washer's drain with...

Good question! I have killed two meat birds in the cone so far (Cornish x), and both times the neck slicing was hard for me. When I try to just cut the jugular, I don't seem to get it so I end up cutting the whole head off (after several attempts and a lot of frustration). When people say the...

Just bumping this up. Any advice for a chronically impacted crop?

Thank you! After letting it rest in the fridge for two days, we ate it tonight for dinner. I roasted it fake "rotisserie" style, meaning I turned it side to side and front to back every so often in the oven. It was great! A little rubbery in parts, but that's ok with me. I was just thrilled to...

At what age do you think I can safely move my Cornish x meat chicks outside to their pen? My goal is to have them in the house as short a time as possible; chicken chores are so much easier outside! I'm talking about spring/summer of course...I know the answer would be different for fall/winter.

I butchered my first ever chicken today! An 8 week old Jumbo Cornish Cross, dressed out at 5.6lbs with all the organs removed. I'm so happy to have the first one under my belt. The butchering process was a lot easier than I expected, but the killing was still hard. I tried my best to kill and...

I have a 2 month old Isa Brown pullet with a badly impacted crop. It's been that way for over a month; I wasn't sure what the problem was at first, so I adopted a wait-and-see approach, not wanting to make it worse by applying the wrong treatment. Today I finally decided to do the olive oil/crop...

How did it go? I'm harvesting my first two meats tomorrow evening. I'm nervous but looking forward to getting the first time behind me. I just brought home 4 new meat chicks tonight, so I hope my first butchering goes well since I just committed to another one in 7 weeks!

I have 6 egg layers (still young, about 7 weeks old) and 2 meat birds of the same age. We just moved all of them into a new coop. I raised them in separate brooders and was feeding the meats a different food from the hens. Now that they are in the same coop, I'm not sure how to feed. The meat...

Can you give yourself an extra day and try again tomorrow? Give yourself some time to relax and think about why you're raising your own birds in the first place. I am about to butcher my first as well, and I try to focus on that when I get nervous, that I'm going to provide fresh, homegrown food...

I was wondering the same thing...I'd like to save the feathers from Cornish Xs when I harvest them, but the feathers will be all wet from the scalding pot. I guess I can try fluffing them back up in the dryer like CarolMinnesota mentioned.