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How do you prepare the meat prior to cooking? Brining and resting in the fridge? I'm not exactly a huge fan of chicken, but mostly that's due to my lack of knowledge in preparing it. I'm very good at ending up with dry meat. If I can learn some good technique, I might get a few meat birds...

Thanks for the pictures and descriptions. We had a rooster that we needed to get rid of, but I was unable to find another home. I decided that last night was as good a time as any to learn a bit about processing chickens, so I used your method to take the legs/thighs and breasts. Everything...

Thanks for this. I have a rooster I've been trying to get rid of (I'm in the city). Unfortunately, I can't find a sucker () willing to take him off my hands. Tonight I will learn to process!

Out of curiosity, what does it normally cost to have a small-time processor process a bird?

This is a 19 week cockerel in need of another home. We hatched out 6 eggs in March, but 5 turned out to be roos. We kept this one because he hadn't started crowing and we wanted him to keep the lone pullet that hatched with him company. Well, this morning I heard a soft little crow coming from...

Thanks, all. Still new at this chicken breed thing. My black sex link (sneaking up behind her in the pic) is by far our best layer.

We acquired this chicken this weekend from a friend who had to give her up due to a dog that wasn't exactly compatible with chickens. Any ideas on the breed?

I think the term grit can be used for ground up oyster shell or ground granite. It really depends on who you are talking to, although I believe that rocks is what most people would understand it as. I offer both to my chickens. Grit is super cheap, and one bag is lasting me forever. If the...

For the past couple of years, since we've had chickens, we've mainly fed them feed from the mom and pop feed store that's about $12-$13 for a 50lb bag. A couple of months ago, we got a great deal on some Hiland Naturals, so we've been feeding them that since March or so. Well, now that we're...

We have 13 week old mix (there's some RIR in there, I believe) that has yet to make a noise. He was one of 6 chicks that we hatched where 5 turned out to be cockerels. We sold one barred rock and gave 3 to our friends who have a farm after they all started crowing at about 11 weeks. We kept...

I am unable to convince them to crow on their own. My temp solution is to tag the leg of one of each kind of chick (we have 3 pair) so that if I see one crowing out the window in the morning I can at least tell which one it is.

Well, we think we probably have 5 cockerels out of the 6 chicks that hatched (I had another thread on identifying them). My wife wants to make 100% sure which are cockerels, though. Specifically, there are 2 barred rocks. One of which we know is a cockerel since my wife saw it crowing this...

We have several 11 week old chicks. We don't want to give some of them away if we're not 100% sure they aren't pullets. We know that at least one of them has found his crow, but we're not sure which one. Is there a way to coax a cockerel to crow? We just want to be able to identify exactly...

Thanks all. I heard some weird noises this morning, but I assumed one of the older ladies got after one of the chicks. Might have been an attempted crow after all. I'll investigate.

So, I posted some pics in the Gender/Breed section and it was generally agreed that I have at least 4, maybe 5 roos out of six chicks that hatched about 9 weeks ago. So far I haven't heard any weird crowing, though. My question is, should I expect loud crowing right off the bat? Or do they...

Thanks for the looks, everyone! Not what I was hoping, but at least the eggs were free! :)

Yeesh, we didn't have very good luck out of those eggs if I only got 1 or 2 pullets out of the bunch :) Anyone in SW TN want some roos? :)

Does anyone else have ideas which are pullets and which are roos? Thanks!

Thanks. Any ideas on the sex?

We got some hatching eggs from a local feed store. The owner just gave us some for free, but didn't know which eggs came from what chicken. According to the farmer he had a barred rock and a Rhode Island Red rooster. His hens were black sex links, Rhode Island Reds, Ameraucana, and barred rock...