Butchering- Prep and how to?

[Mimi13]

Good thread. Following for the info. Thanks, y’all!

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Oh no, not tough at all. Each cooking method is by age of bird. Back in the time of our grand parents the name of the bird actually meant something. Chicken was sold as broiler, fryer, roaster or stew. Each of those names denotes the age of bird and the highest heat you could cook it without making it tough. Broiler to 15 weeks, fryer to 18 or 20 weeks, roaster to 9 months and stew there after.

We lost track of this in the broiler age. All the birds today are meat hybrids that are butchered at 6 to 10 weeks of age. A bird in your supermarket labeled "roaster" is only boasting about the size, the bird may be as old as 10 weeks and you could still broil it.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Thank you that is extremely helpful. I will keep these terms in mind when the time comes to decide when to dispatch the cockerels.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

NO ONE EVER HAS THE RIGHT TO KILL AN INNOCENT ANIMAL

You should stay out of the meat bird thread then. Sure you have the constitutional right to voice opinion but it's going out of your way to be confrontational to do so in a meat forum.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

SORRY I CARE ABOUT ANIMALS BEING ALLOWED TO LIVE BTW IM AN ANIMAL ACTIVIST

Then you will probably get easily upset if you stay on the meat section of this forum.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

BUT I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I SAW THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T CARE THAT THEY ARE DESTROYING AN INNOCENT ANIMAL!!!!!

Not all of us feel that we are destroying an innocent animal. We are actually saving a broiler chick from being born and enduring a miserable existence by raising our own chickens for meat in a natural and humane way and dispatching them humanely and quickly. The cockerels will have a happy and normal chicken life and they will have one bad moment.

 

[BantyChooks]

YOU CAT SURVIVE WITHOUT EATING AN INNOCENT BEING

You're not going to change anyone's mind. I suggest staying out of the meat forum. Perhaps "pictures and stories of my chickens" would be better suited for your choices.

I could write a whole book on why I have chosen to eat meat, but I suspect it'd be wasted.

Some advice. If you really wish to turn others to veganism, put yourself in their shoes. Do some research from our point of view WITH AN OPEN MIND. Tell yourself that "this makes sense" even if you're screaming inside because it doesn't to you. Find out what these animals are fed with, find why the land they're raised on is not suitable for crops, and find why I truly believe backyard poultry processing could change the world economy and eliminate so much suffering that currently goes down in commercial settings. You don't have to agree with it at the end, and that's okay. Just find out why it makes sense to us. It'll help you find better arguments against the actual issues we are concerned about. If you can find a rational non-inflammatory argument that is held up with statistics, then sure, I'd love to hear it.

I did this with vegetarianism. And you know what? It made sense to me. Because nobody holds beliefs that don't make sense. Ultimately, I chose to eat meat for reasons too lengthy to go into here, but I still recognize why your viewpoint makes sense to you.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

You're not going to change anyone's mind. I suggest staying out of the meat forum. Perhaps "pictures and stories of my chickens" would be better suited for your choices.

 

[BantyChooks]

My 10 year old daughter had borrowed my phone. She is very passionate about her pet geese and animal welfare.

LOL, I see. That explains the all caps. Tell her that her geese are lucky and I hope she gets to keep them for a long time.

 

[Welshies]

Hmmm... thanks guys. That little interuption was somewhat unexpected, but hey- it happens