I bought meat chickens once and did the processing at nine weeks? Any way, I had one processed, head removed, skin removed, but if you touched it, it would still "flex" kinda creepy.
I don't have to gut, since I only remove the breast and the legs. The guts are in this neat little package, with some sort of membrane over it, like a casing, I don't disturb it.:oops:
My hens get pellet, but some times I will add dry cob to entertain, it has corn, and some wheat, the hens like to gobble up the corn first they will eat the wheat if they are bored.
(Note if the rooster is nice, I will try and find him a home. It is not a money thing,but I want to think they can have a good life. Plus I have a husband who doesn't me to do in any roosters.) As far as processing, (when hubby is out of town...)I use a hatchet, and a block, you can put 2 tall...
I never have had a rooster I raise attack me, but I would always pick them up when they came near me, and then they never came near me unless they wanted to be picked up which was alot. I have a new rooster he is a 8 month old SFH and he lets me pick him up. he doesn't seem afraid of me. The...
I just got a SFH rooster, 3 days ago. I just saw him mounting my leghorn hen, and then a NN hen went up to him and was selling her case as to why she should be next.
I had a blue Frizzle rooster that was so ugly, he was always molting and looked like he was running around with no pants, chasing hens. He did end up fathering my avatar, and now I wish I kept him.
I have been lucky and found homes for all of my roosters, I was alittle too good at it though, I had 2 LO roosters and bunch of hatching eggs in incubator, I gave my roosters away, when the eggs hatched because they were mixed with black EE hens I only got one blue chick and the rest were...