RIRs for meat

[Agricola]

What do you think would be a good age to process RIR roosters? I would like to free range them as much as possible even though I have read that will make them take longer to plump up. For those who have free ranged RIRs, what age did you butcher them?

 

[nicalandia]

24 weeks will do...

 

[skywatcher]

Butchered my rir roosters at 15 weeks and some at 18 weeks have 4 more to do next week at age 19 weeks. I like to do them before they start crowing. My white rocks where bigger at the same age of 15 weeks took a couple more weeks for the rir the get the same size as the rocks. Butchered all the white rocks at 15 weeks GREAT GIZZARDS MY FREEZER IS FULL

 

[Agricola]

Thanks for the replies! About how much did your RIRs weigh when they were butchered?