I am interested in what you do when your hens are getting too old or feeble to lay well.
If you choose to dispose, how do you do it?
If you re-home, likewise (and how do you get people to take a defunct layer?)
If you butcher, how do you go about it, how much meat to you get (is it worth the effort), or if you have someone do it (butcher) what cost do you incur?
Please, no ruffled feathers over whether someone is callous or silly if they choose to eat them for dinner or cull them to the garbage or re-home to the Happy Hen Home.
I have 21 birds on a semi-suburban property and am just about at my property limit, so when my oldest become too old, too senile, no longer reasonably productive for the feed costs I pay out of pocket, I am going to have to make a wise choice of "retirement."
Thank you for your honest, and tactful, responses.
Lady of McCamley
If you choose to dispose, how do you do it?
If you re-home, likewise (and how do you get people to take a defunct layer?)
If you butcher, how do you go about it, how much meat to you get (is it worth the effort), or if you have someone do it (butcher) what cost do you incur?
Please, no ruffled feathers over whether someone is callous or silly if they choose to eat them for dinner or cull them to the garbage or re-home to the Happy Hen Home.
I have 21 birds on a semi-suburban property and am just about at my property limit, so when my oldest become too old, too senile, no longer reasonably productive for the feed costs I pay out of pocket, I am going to have to make a wise choice of "retirement."
Thank you for your honest, and tactful, responses.
Lady of McCamley
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