Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Skyeknight]

Happy thanksgiving! I'm going to be having two celebrations this year, neither of which are today but I'm going to be cooking a chicken for one of them, and I'm pretty excited about the recipe

Would you mind sharing that recipe? I have never cooked whole chicken, but I am planning to soon. So will dive into recipes next week probably.

I've got a chicken thawing right now, bought it from a family friend. It's a Cornish cross, I was hoping for a heritage bird but it's leagues better than an animal that spent its life in a warehouse. Anyways all this to say it's my first time roasting a whole chicken (don't judge too harshly, I haven't been an adult for all that many years). It's pretty exciting

I am planning to roast my first whole chicken at my families Christmas dinner. It will be my first time doing the main dish as I also haven't been an adult for that many years. I think I want to buy one from the store and eat the cemani/silkie mix that turned out to be a rooster. He is only about 1.5 kg, so I thought it would be interesting to compare the taste and different coloured meat between him and a store bought CX.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Coincidentally for the recent feline discussion, an item on the BBC website this am says cats were domesticated in historic (not prehistoric) times; they are a recent phenomenon.

It started with the ancient Egyptians' reverence for them, then spread from the first century CE after the Roman conquest of Egypt, as some Romans then took them across the empire as pest control. They spread out to the rest of the world from there and sporadically after that https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8dvdp9gn7o
The proper publication (rather than the news digest) is here https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2642 (only abstracts, conclusion, a graphic and refs open access)

edited to add, the Chinese aspect is open access here
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(25)00355-6

Full article, although I don't know if you still need additional access. I get it through AAAS membership.

https://www.sciencemagazinedigital....em/27_november_2025/4308511/?Cust_No=60903339