meat

Hello! Preparing to butcher a chicken here in a few weeks and I would like to now if any of you trim the yellow fat deposits on your birds (if theres any) or just leave it for roasting. Also: I heard they taste better than store bought, and opinions?

Hello! I am raising chickens (Specifically the breed White Hen X bred at A&M university) for my FFA animal showing, and this will be my first time. I have done a lot of research already, but I am very interested in learning more on how I am to take care of my tasty friends! (BTW, I've named them...

I now have nine Muscovies in my freezer. Anyone have any good recipes for Muscovy meat specifically that doesn’t cost a lot?

hi, for the last few weeks i seem to be reading conflicting information online regarding the breeds that are good for meat. i live in ireland so i am limited to certain breeds. we dont get cornish cross over here or rangers. i read that buff orpingtons are a good meat bird, then i read that they...

Hi all. I'm having some trouble deciding what to do with our year old drake. The interwebs has not been helpful, so here I am :-) Will the meat from a year old drake be too gamey if we butcher him now? We have only butchered once before, a year old female that we rescued from a badger a little...

Hi all, I was wondering if anybody feeds their own live chickens, chicken meat. Does anyone think its wrong or something like that? I'm not feeding any to my chickens until I see what people think. Thank you.

hey all. I’m looking to raise some meat birds. I have a huge variety of breeds - I love the wide range of colors and sizes. I was thinking about starting with several Cochin hens I have that are huge. Just not sure I’d like their meat. (I’ve heard they are really dark.) I raised some Cornish...

Howdy y'all! I have a strange sorta question. I've been butchering today and was wondering, should you wait any amount of time before eating the meat? Like...is there some sorta curing process? Thanks in advance for y'all's help!:):)

So, I'm trying to compile some information for butchering a wide variety of poultry. There isn't much in the way of information online to be found. I realize that butchering a chicken that is over 6 months, or so, old makes it a tough meat. I am wondering how age affects geese, ducks, quail...

This is a recipe I found from a few different sites and a youtube video. I modified it and it came out to perfection. Resources: https://www.chowhound.com/post/deep-frying-quail-928570 -->I saw a you tube link on this thread for General Tsos chicken. The youtube video is SUPER helpful to...

I got a frozen duck from the grocery store, and halfway through the cooking process I saw some roundworms. It will be thoroughly cooked but is it safe to eat the meat? AS long as it's well done? Or do I have to throw away a $24 duck?

Just curious, probably not getting sheep. But what are the best breeds? Mainly interested in friendly pets. But maybe this could be a useful thread for someone else who finds it and we could say best wool, best meat, hardiness, feed conversion, etc. Too if you want. But for me, friendly and...

Hi-- Does anyone know of a chicken processor near Anne Arundel County, Maryland? I have a few roosters to harvest and lack the time or equipment to process them myself. My daughter wants to keep the feathers if she can. I imagine that somebody who processes waterfowl could do it, or somebody...

I have mentioned it before, but I am doing a school report on chickens and need your help! Answer the poll question. Thank you for your time and consideration!

I bought some Barred Rock hens and I am wondering what you guys think about my getting a leghorn roo to breed with them. Has anyone ever done this? does anyone have any other suggestions about what rooster to breed with these hens?

has anyone crossed Jersey Giants with another breed to get a faster-growing bird? I would like to start selling some of my own meat birds. I am looking to create my own version of the Cornish x with Jersey Giants, of course, nothing that grows as fast as the Cornish x.

So my husband and I have decided we want to raise turkeys next year. Mainly for meat, our big goal is to just raise some for Thanksgiving to start with. I have some questions before we dive in... We were originally planning on getting poults in January to raise until November when we would...

So I got 7 new babies yesterday! We are really excited, the person we got them from said 2 were boys, 1 she was unsure of, and the other 4 are girls. We plan on only keeping 4 of these babies and processing the rest. If feeding standard chick starter, around when did they reach 2-3lbs dressed...

Are cornish cross chickens usually vaccinated for mareks, etc... and what about tractor supply? Do they vaccinate theirs?

I know this question has been asked before, but I was thinking about raising a cornish cross as a pet/laying hen. I know they get big really fast but I was wondering if I raised it on regular chick starter and eventually regular laying hen food, would it turn out just fine? I would definitely...