BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Our Roost]

DesertChic, Hey! even the back side of a chicken looks good at my age! This isnt a photo shoot and chickens dont wear makeup, so just snap away and send us something!

 

[gjensen]

LOL! I post pictures of my chickens on Facebook quite often. Recently, instead of my cute chicks photos I posted this one:



This was one of my non-breeding quality Bielefelder cockerels. He was delicious! And about half a dozen people messaged me, scolding me on how horrible I am for killing my chickens for food. Another two dozen asked when I'm having them over for dinner.

Just invite the half dozen over for dinner. Tell them that dinner includes veal and bunny rabbits.

ETA: Looks god by the way.

 

[JRNash]

Not quite... Ive actually looked into these. I like dark meat. I've never seen anyone with an interest in keeping these as pets.

 

[gjensen]

Hi George. I don't remember Dead Rabbit ever visiting the PRODUCTION thread and was surprised when he suddenly appeared with such force. I don't remember seeing him post ANYWHERE!

If I had known you were aware of him, I might not have made the post that only slowed him down a bit. Another point...he DOES NOT know all he claims about dogs. I took an hour, made two phone calls, getting hold of the breeder(accidental) she says. He is what was told and all one really needs to do is look at the tail to recognize the typical tail set of the Rott.

None the less, you may or may not be aware that the thread has LOTS of enemies who would love to shut it down. For all I know, Mr. Rabbit was a 5'th Columnist, sent to stir up sheit about chicken fighting and he made bells go off in my head.

He's certainly welcome to the thread any time but I would hate to be censured for any reason...

RON

I do not think he is sensitive. He will be fine. He knows how some are about that subject. We do not want to offend anyone with history. LOL.

 

[JRNash]

It didn't post my comment. I have looked into them. I like dark meat

 

[gjensen]

So I have been trying to get some good pics of the flock. I have read posts about how hard it was to capture that good picture, but kinda shrugged it off, and thought "can't be that hard."

Well, it is that hard, and I think I need a new camera with faster capture speeds.

All it takes to get us off of our obsession with protein and realize that chickens need more energy than any other thing is to try to take a picture. They are (almost) never sitting still unless they are asleep on the roost. Even then, their heart rate and respiration rate is very high.

I do not even try to take good pictures. I have a son that does well, if I ask. He has an eye for it, but busy at 17.

I have a hard time capturing color to. Both the red in the NHs and the buff in the Catalanas have been difficult for me to capture.

Rarely a picture compliments a bird, and more often the opposite. Nothing beats seeing them in person and handling them. Some times they are not as good as they seam, and some times they are a pleasant surprise. Really, only you know.

Comments are helpful if you only use them for perspective and insight. The comments on a picture are never lawful.

 

[dfr1973]

Right there is the reason why I refrain from joining a sikie thread. Those who raise silkies as second children might not care much for my breeding plans of developing a heavier meatier silkie fibro meat breed
There was a few threads discussing giant silkies, people wanting them but I didn't find anyone that actually found any, threads had few posts and were old and dead.

OMG! Thank you for saying this! I had to unsubscribe to the Silkie thread after asking if they taste any different from other chickens.

It's not so easy to unsubscribe when it happens face to face...

Me: I've eaten some of them, tastes pretty good...

Person: either

and/or

doesn't help much pointing out they ARE chickens.........................

Apparently you can't eat "cute" chickens just the "ugly" ones.

I've not subscribed to the Silkies breeding thread ... but there was an Fm thread in the meat birds section. It just hasn't been active lately. My extra cockerels are already spoken for, probably for the next couple years - Chinese family. He's also asked for ALL my eggs next week, so he can take them up to NYC family who cannot find good eggs to their personal standards. When hubby asked him last week about why he wanted our eggs (to take from FL to NYC!) he said not only can he see the difference in the yolk, but he can taste the difference. Ours taste better and richer flavor.

I'll probably need to wait until next year to do up a roast Silkie and pumpkin Halloween dinner. I *THINK* I only have one extra cockerel, and most pullets.

 

[Our Roost]

DesertChic, Might I ask what type of seasoning you used? That cockerel looks mighty tasty! I think I'll have some veal and bunny as a side dish.

 

[JRNash]

Most people DON'T have a clue where there food comes from or how to survive when there are no supermarkets. A fact that I'M personally counting on.

 

[JRNash]

I don't me counting on to exploit. Counting on to get rid of...