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Like I said above, we butcher all of our cockerels, but I will never butcher an old, no-longer-productive hen. I figure after all the eggs they've given us over the years, they've earned their retirement. I'll probably end up looking like an Old Hens' Home someday, but I can live with that.

Not a dumb question at all! With all the talk of meat birds and dual-purpose birds, it's easy to get sucked into the mentality that some birds are edible and some are not. But we always butcher our excess males, all varieties, even the exotics (we have all big breeds, no banties). Like others...