SomeChickinTN - don't remember where you said something about not being able to process your own birds... this post is really long.
Have you watched any YouTube videos of it? There are MANY different ways to process a chicken. You could also look into having a butcher process them for you (regulations are different for each state and company - costs can be prohibitive) or find someone who'd help out and be willing to trade for a bird or two in exchange for processing several at a time for you. Craigs list may work, MarketPlace on FB OR a note posted at your local feed store.
My hubby is not into being around during any type of castrations (not chickens, but other critters) or killing or processing. He is a "killer" cook, however!! So far, I've not had a problem, originally the first time with help several years ago, doing the processing.
This weekend, I may be doing several roosters. Need to reduce feeding numbers and have too many roosters (2 Blue & 2 Splash cockerels w/ 2 Blue pullets/4 Lavender cockerels w/ 3 pullets. The blue pullets are JUST starting to lay and these 6 birds were hatched on 3/12/18. The Lavs<self blues depending on which group you are going with> were hatched on 3/29 & 4/11... No eggs yet & I can't decide which of the roos I really want to keep yet...). These aren't meat birds per say. I've never dressed out a purebred Ameraucana before - have no idea what weights they will be or how much meat they will have on 'em (& unfortunately, since our move, we can't find the kitchen scale! so won't have any kind of real/accurate weights

). For now, I can tell you this - I don't pluck. Hand plucking, for me, takes too long and is very difficult for me to do. I don't have any kind of "fancy" plucker yet (that's coming in the future -when we have a larger number of birds to do all at once). I "peel" them. Quite literally. It's a little difficult in some areas, easier in others. The skin and feathers go into a feed bag that then gets dumped into our compost (this time I also dumped out the feet/legs and the heads). My videos aren't edited - but several that we did in October were taped by my daughter on our phones. The first bird I did took about 30 minutes from first cut to final rinse and putting him on ice (the ice tub carried into the house & covered with a lid - rinsed & bagged the next morning, then into the freezer). Then got a little faster with the middle ones, then the 5th one I was freezing (outside in wind and 20* temp drop) and tired and fumbling with my hands. Took almost 45 minutes to do according to video... My daughter and the grand daughters didn't help - just watched (& taped). It did take a while, all told. Since I wasn't plucking, I didn't scald them. If there was a scent, I was standing upwind and the scent picked up and blown away from me. (the 7 & 8 yr old grand daughters said they "have STANK", LOL). The innards were put into a bucket and partially split between the 5 dogs (every one got a neck & a heart - from the 12# pom to the 80# pitX). The other innards from three of the birds were tossed into the dog yard - for the 3 dogs out there to piece thru as they chose. The rest went out to an area in our back field where the CLB & RB flocks range and spread out on some gardening area(s). UM... between the two barn cats that showed up and a flock of 12 mostly grown young birds (4 roosters/8 pullets) - those innards were ALL gone in less than 1 hour! This was my first time processing birds completely by myself and only the 4th time since 2012 that we've done birds for us... Will become regular part of our "homestead life" now. I have a couple of pics of the processed birds...
I've since done two of those birds in the new Instant Pot - as soup. Not a whole lot of meat - had I done them as roasters - they most certainly weren't turkeys. When I had the 3 daughters at home, it would probably have taken 3 full birds to feed the 5 of us as 1 meal (not soup or chixNdumplings). If we have a family get-together of us and the oldest w/ her hubby & 2 granddaughters - I really think we'd have to have cooked all 5 of these birds at once. The 5 birds that I did that day were 3 barnyardXs - of about 50% mixed bantam breeding and 50% Ameraucana and 2 CLB roosters. The CLBs were HUGE compared to the Bantams, but once cleaned and dressed - not that much different in size. I'm going to have to go thru pics to figure out when the bantamXs were hatched, the CLBs were supposedly 3m old when I got them in March, not sure though, meaning they would be 8m old when I processed them. I gave 2 to a neighbor who has had some financial issues and is now allowing me to house some of my birds in the coop that is on his property. He said they were wonderful - he did them in the oven as whole birds w/ potatoes and onions.
I didn't track exactly how much feed they were getting, but they got a whole lot less feed overall than my prospective breeding stock which weren't free ranging the same way. "Grazing" in our front & side yards garnered a lot of bugs & greens for them. The only reason they were free ranging out of pens is they figured out how to get out of the 4' high temp pens and they'd go do "walkies"... I did lose 1 Bantam and 1 CLB that way, but that's not too bad actually. A pic of the CLB roos in June. They weren't tagged at all - I have no idea which ones I processed in October.
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As to numbers of birds? I haven't figured it out on paper - but know that I will have to feed my purebred birds (dual purpose?) for a bit longer and still won't have a carcass (at least not this first couple of generations) that is real meaty or large. For that, we'll have to raise some cornishX's, I believe. Not sure that's going to happen next year yet (I've been visiting with a couple of different people on some ideas for using the birds I have now X'd on a new breed to create my own "meat birds"). Our plan is to feed the 5 dogs and at least the 3 outdoor cats quite a bit of chicken as well as feeding ourselves. There were a couple of times Larry and I got roasted chicken 3x a week this past summer (before I had any birds ready to process) - and ate the birds' just by our selves... Each bird did make more than 1 meal, but ... The 5 just processed about the same size as the rotisserie birds from our local supermarket - not very big at all.
Me thinks we are looking at raising a lot of birds!...AS to eggs - my first chickens (mixed assortment of bantams) were given to me - then I bought some hatchery chicks thru the feed store. This past summer, I had 20 laying hens and was lucky to get 20 eggs in a week, if that...

(the laying hens are mixed breeds - hatchery stock - gottne thru our feed store coming from Privett Hatchery.