look!!!! a strange chicken! Not a cock or hen! (PICS)

[Tiffrz-N-Kidz]

I would like to learn how.

 

[10ducks]

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In fact, we used the 180-days spayed hens and hens were compared.
Hens lose a large amount of nutrients for egg production, and spayed hens muscles absorb a lot of nutrients.
Data show that

Do you have links to the studies (online)? So we can read them?

I'm with Olive Hill, here. Is a poulard good eating? I'm sure. More nutritious than a hen thay is actually laying? Possibly, but only marginally so at best. Six times more? Nope, physiologically impossible. Interesting thread, though, despite that bit of hyperbole.

 

[cat1994]

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That is what happend to my lil roo. He grew up as the lowest in the pecking order of roos, so he never crowed. Now he is my only roo (and the best one ever

) and he still only crows a lil

But he gets the job done with the he lady friends

 

[mstricer]

Why do they leave the heads on?

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

IDK but it's really different isn't it! I guess probably just regional preference . . .

 

[eKo_birdies]

it seems to be more common throughout all of europe for many a meat product to be more "intact" than it is here in the states. they seem to utilize more of the animal as well.

now what they do with the head... beats me! lol i'd just look at it as a free dog treat

 

[Liamm_1]

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It's so you can look them in the eye and say "thank you very much for giving your life to be my dinner"

 

[mountainvieworchards]

The traditional way to send a capon to market is with the head and hackles intact. Also the wing feathers from the wing joint and the feather on the lower leg. They are usually killed by sticking the jugular through the mouth and dry plucked. This way the person buying it knows they are getting a real capon and not a rooster dressed up to look like one.

 

[Kassaundra]

This thread has bee very interesting, The price for the tools and shipping what would that be in US dollars?

I have to admit I never thought of spaying the females too, but once you said it it makes sense, especially if they are being raised strictly for meat and not eggs. It would also make it easier to caponize/spay at younger ages when you can't tell the males from the females.

Definately some things to think about as an alternative, a person can never have to many choices.

 

[ccqq126]

really? why?