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There are no local butchers any more. A few places that will dress deer, beef, or hogs, but not poultry because it requires "re-tooling" - and they simply make a lot more money on the larger animals. One meat processor of which I am aware isn't even doing deer this year, just beef and hogs...

I don't know how, but I TOTALLY missed this. Another sign of old age, I guess, LOL! I thought of that and frankly even when I last had chickens I had a friend who came over to help. But we were both working at it, he didn't do it FOR me. I could be wrong ... but I sort of assumed that there...

I'm sure you're trying to be helpful - but ... misinformed? REALLY? I have done this before. I prefer killing cones myself. I just no longer feel like doing it any more. Blood and guts smell. If you don't notice it, good for you. But most people do. And there is NO WAY I would bleed a...

Look, no offense, but I don't keep livestock as pets. I got REALLY tired (when I had acreage) of people trying to foist their no-longer-cute easter lambs off on me that had grown up to be full-fledged rams that wanted to sit in your lap. Pets are pets. Livestock is livestock. I can only keep...

Yeah, if and when I manage to find a place where I can actually have a coop again, I think the only plan that will work is to buy more birds than I need, sell off the ones I don't want to keep about the time they'd start laying (because buying less than 25 birds is stupidly expensive with...

It occurs to me that IF I can find a town where I can actually have a coop (I have another thread on the subject of a town that passed backyard chicken ordinances that seem to make it impossible to keep chickens given the size in fact of the majority of lots in town) - I am not going to be able...