Drum roll Please ... First Harvested Chicken ...

[criker99]

Here is a picture of my fresh from the oven barred rock rooster who was processed on Saturday. Yes ... I do recognize he doesn't have much breast meat, but that's great for me ... I don't like white meat!

Cooked in a Romertopf clay pot ... I'm going to have to get a bigger one; these guys were too big to fit!

 

[wezl]

Mmmm! Beautiful!

 

[bryan99705]

Wonderful,

now you get to get more birds.... You know, it's that Chicken Math thing

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

awesome!

 

[criker99]

Interesting result ... taste was really really really good. But not a lot of meat; even for a 9 month old roo. Another interesting point is that I really liked the breast meat (what little there was) better than the dark meat. I sense cornishX in our future!

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

a nine month old roo will convert them every time . . . welcome to the white meat side

 

[itsy]

Congrats! Looks YUMMY!

 

[booker81]

DP breast meat is YUMMY, and so is that super dark meat

Even homeraised CX are better than store meat if you give them a bit to move around and get some firmness to their meat. It's not soft and spongy, and isn't drowning in "enhanced for flavor" sodium stuff.

 

[criker99]

Day 2 ... Homemade chicken and rice soup made with fresh vegetables including corn cut from the cob!

Holy Smokes even BETTER!

Edited to clarify...