(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I'm not new to chickens. Growing up, I've always had friends/family with chickens, even though I never had my own due to city ordinances. I first started taking care of chickens in February.
(2) How many chickens do you have right...
Thanks for the information. We ended up not doing it because of time constraints and the fact that the birds were so small. I appreciate the in formation, though. I definitely want to try it in the future, and I'll share how that goes.
To my knowledge, we make stock here by just putting the birds into a giant stock pot on the stove on low heat for hours, usually a little over a day. I've been involved in more of the ranch side of things here and haven't ventured much into the food processing, which is something I want to...
We slaughtered 43 old birds yesterday (my first slaughter, actually). They're all really old. There were Brown Leghorns (1 of them a rooster, all around 4 years-old), Austra Whites (1 of them a rooster, all probably a little more than 3 years-old), and Rhode Island Reds (probably more than 2...