Recipe for heritage breed chicken(25 weeks old) for thanksgiving

[camilleathome]

Hey guys were processing two roosters for thanksgiving that are around 25 weeks and trying to find a good recipe to serve it up for thanksgiving. Their buckeye and Heritage Rhode island reds so definitely not meat kings. Any suggestions on how I should cook them? I heard the texture can be really different and not the best roasted in the oven.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

First, make sure you rest the meat for 3 days or so before freezing or cooking.
If roasting, put the breast down in the broth because it cooks much faster. Cook low and slow. I do about 200 degrees till the leg meat starts to fall off the bone. That's about 5 hours.
I'll try to locate some great recipes I've posted before.

 

[camilleathome]

Thank you it would be appreciated for sure!

 

[Lacy Blues]

First, make sure you rest the meat for 3 days or so before freezing or cooking.
If roasting, put the breast down in the broth because it cooks much faster. Cook low and slow. I do about 200 degrees till the leg meat starts to fall off the bone. That's about 5 hours.
I'll try to locate some great recipes I've posted before.

Still waiting for those recipes!

I have 3 roosters resting in the fridge. I need a good recipe for roasting them whole, I want them tender and juicy and pretty enough to put on the table.

Got recipes?