Butchering your roosters!

[BYCforlife]

I see a lot of people offering free roosters so often. One or 2 roosters are really easy to butcher! Or, if you don't want to butcher them, you can bring them to a butcher for fairly cheap. Their meat is not as good as broilers, but in a dish (stew, chicken pie, etc.) They taste very good! I will be butchering my extra roosters.
There are most likely not many people who want your roosters, since they most likely can get them to breed from a hatchery.
I just wanted to share my opinion, because I don't like seeing all the people desperately trying to sell their roosters.

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[RAsChickens]

CRUEL!!!!!!!!!

 

[scottcaddy]

Ours are skinned, way faster then picking the feathers. I agree about other people not wanting to buy a few extra Roo's that are not GOOD breeding stock.
Why feed and house birds that you don't want or need? Just MHO!
Scott

 

[BantyChooks]

Ours are skinned, way faster then picking the feathers. I agree about other people not wanting to buy a few extra Roo's that are not GOOD breeding stock.
Why feed and house birds that you don't want or need? Just MHO!
Scott

I've been thinking about skinning. Have you done it on layer breed cockbirds?

 

[BYCforlife]

CRUEL!!!!!!!!!

Just my opinion. Do you eat chicken from the store? It's just like that. Chickens don't feel betrayed when you eat them- they're dead.

 

[BantyChooks]

Just my opinion. Do you eat chicken from the store? It's just like that. Chickens don't feel betrayed when you eat them- they're dead.

Don't reply or get into an argument. It never ends well with those people.

 

[BYCforlife]

Don't reply or get into an argument. It never ends well with those people.

Yup, that's as far as I'm going.

 

[scottcaddy]

I've been thinking about skinning. Have you done it on layer breed cockbirds?

All we have are layer types, I would like to have some J Giants or Australorps, big bird =big meat.
Scott

 

[tastyacres]

I've been thinking about skinning. Have you done it on layer breed cockbirds?

I only butchered layer cocks and skinned them all... I liked them better skinned.

They were all really easy to skin. At least to me it was.