[/QUOTE]Yes. However, as a kid, I did chickens every summer on my great aunts farm. I had the basic concept just had been YEARS since I’d done it and the kids were just “helpers”. I enlisted the help of my aunts boyfriend (along with my aunt and my 13 yr old daughter). He hasn’t done chickens, but he’s a hunter and has done geese and pheasants. In addition, he has an AMAZING feather plucker! I did every step of process at least once. I ended up doing most of the culling and feather plucking though. I had one that was sick, stopped growing at 4 weeks, went off legs. I couldn’t do that one because after making it a special breakfast and dinner everyday, carrying it and out of the cage for fresh air daily, talking to it, petting and holding it, I got attached Thankfully, because of the info I found on this forum, I was able to get it back up in 2 days. It was never back to normal and had to be babied but lived it’s last couple weeks pretty comfortably SPOILED.
It was easy for me to process too. I grew up processing chickens and hunted Quali, dove and pheasant.
Home raised chickens taste better than store bought too
BYC is a helpful site providing all the information you need to know about poultry! There is always space for more members on the BYC roost!
It would be really nice if you could post pictures of your flock, a lot of different breeds! Hope you enjoy it here as much as we all do!
