How many chickens or other fowl do you process a year?

[booker81]

Out of sheer curiosity, and because I've never made a poll here before

Curious how many chickens/ducks/geese/turkeys/quail/pigeons/whatever other feathered critters folks here usually process a year...

 

[PotterWatch]

Up until now I have fallen into the 11-50 category so that is what I choose in the poll. Starting next month, we will be raising and processing at least 1000 every year with the possibility of going higher than that. Should be interesting!

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

We do 400 or so at home, plus my oldest two kids do processing over summer for .75 per bird. Not sure how many they did last year.

 

[ChickyLaura]

Well, I never did it until a few weeks ago, and we did 4. By the way, I have one cooking in the pressure cooker right now, and he smells divine!

I used plenty of garlic, fresh sage, salt, and pepper. It smells like a gourmet restaurant here!!

 

[jaj121159]

During a good waterfowl season I do 50 easy. Did six snow geese the other night. Couple of years ago we did 100 snows in one evening. I've 20 chickens in the past month. I would do what I sell, but I can't in Nebraska, that is, and sell in a Farmer's Market.

 

[Mahonri]

As a kid, I was always processing roos.

Now, just so I could show my kids, we processed an EE on Saturday and had him for dinner on Sunday. he was delicious.

 

[booker81]

I think the results are pretty neat - shows we have a nice mix of folks from just a few birds to a whole lotta birds!

 

[Wegs813]

Last summer we processed 11 or so Cornish X. This year we will be doing a whole lot more...probably 200-300.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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[RareBreedFancier]

I haven't done it yet but planing to start soon.

I have too many roosters at the moment and I need to either sell some or eat them. Got them on finishing feed at the moment to fatten them up a bit so if they are still here in a few weeks they will be heading for freezer camp.

We eat 1 - 2 chickens a week usually so I'll be aiming to raise 50 - 100 for the table each year.