South Carolina

[Cpntherfan]

we hope to get our garden started soon going to try tomatoes again. In Lancaster we only got pea size hail. Hopefully Tuesday we will be getting our new chicks and tomorrow the Cornish Xs will go to their new home.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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If it were me, I would have kept the cornish xs and raised for meat birds. We order those each year, I must say they are the best chicken I have ever eaten! I will not even buy chicken out anywhere......restaurants or grocery stores!

 

[Cpntherfan]

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If it were me, I would have kept the cornish xs and raised for meat birds. We order those each year, I must say they are the best chicken I have ever eaten! I will not even buy chicken out anywhere......restaurants or grocery stores!

I imagine they are. But i couldnt bring myself to kill them if i raised them, it was heart breaking to find out they were cornish.

 

[Chicken-Rage]

I thinking of getting some Cornish Xs myself, and Id like to do some turkeys, anyone local do turkeys?

 

[Joycats]

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I've never had turkeys before but my 7 year old decided he HAD to have some turkeys so .... we just bought 4 turkey poults at Coleman's Farm Supply. I guess I'll learn as I go.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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If it were me, I would have kept the cornish xs and raised for meat birds. We order those each year, I must say they are the best chicken I have ever eaten! I will not even buy chicken out anywhere......restaurants or grocery stores!

I imagine they are. But i couldnt bring myself to kill them if i raised them, it was heart breaking to find out they were cornish.

That is why we raise meaties (cornish) - just to kill for the freezer. I have other birds for layers...and others for pets

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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looks good

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Gonna do some again
For now we have 2 broad breasted whites right now...just waiting to go to the freezer when DH has time. Hopefully next weekend!
Both are toms...were originally from a turkey farm as poults

I want bourbon reds & royal palms I think - would prefer to hatch them but may consider poults

 

[Joycats]

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I imagine they are. But i couldnt bring myself to kill them if i raised them, it was heart breaking to find out they were cornish.

That is why we raise meaties (cornish) - just to kill for the freezer. I have other birds for layers...and others for pets

I can't do it either. I'm a farmer with a mother's heart. I buy organic chicken from a local farmer but I could never eat my own chickies. If I raise them here, I look them in the eye and I care about them. I could never eat them. When I was a small girl it was my job to go bottle feed the baby calves. I loved it - morning, noon and night - LOVED it! Then the calves grew up and I realized what was going to happen to them. Cried for weeks, quit eating beef at 10 years old. Been this way my whole life and I ain't gonna change now.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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That is why we raise meaties (cornish) - just to kill for the freezer. I have other birds for layers...and others for pets

I can't do it either. I'm a farmer with a mother's heart. I buy organic chicken from a local farmer but I could never eat my own chickies. If I raise them here, I look them in the eye and I care about them. I could never eat them. When I was a small girl it was my job to go bottle feed the baby calves. I loved it - morning, noon and night - LOVED it! Then the calves grew up and I realized what was going to happen to them. Cried for weeks, quit eating beef at 10 years old. Been this way my whole life and I ain't gonna change now.

Makes it easier for me knowing how they were taken care of. I don't name the meaties & that helps

Actually it didn't bother me the first time either - but I knew why we were raising them & how they were treated & raised in the pasture with good food & room to run and grow. If we were to get a calf, we would have to get 2 .... one for nic and one for us to send to the freezer. She had a hard time watching the first couple of chickens we processed - then she was in charge of eviscerating them. DH did the dirty work & also skinned them. I did final cleaning & quartered or halved them.
Once she ate one though, she won't eat grocery store birds now either.
Knowing we raised them for food, gave them space, and food & water, and cared for them, makes it easier for her I think........that and once they get so big, you do not want to see them waddling around because they just look miserable.

I know a lot cannot process their own chickens.