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Heather...this is a great idea. Has to be friendly...we don't care about a missing toe or a wrong shaped comb...we just want friendly. I just made the comment that Tyson was a S.O.B (ya, know the meaning). I used this type of verbiage as my DD is in the room. She says a "Sob"...what is a Sob? Um....a kind of car.....
Hey, Heather, since I have you on here....Do you know anyone who would "process" chickens if I were to raise for meat? I would not mind helping...it is just that DH does not have the "stomach" for it and I would love to be able to raise my own meat. For me alone to do it would be just too much work...I don't think I can do it alone. I don't know if I could do the actual "kill", but once dead...it is only a piece of meat to me and I have no problems and I am not squimish.
Well, next fall I should be able to part with Barnabas and/or my LS roo. Do you just need one roo? Oh and my Creve roo too...as I'm getting in lines into my flock and I don't want them to be too closely related....
My FIL would do the killing, no problem. He kills all of the ducks/geese/turkeys/chickens/goats. I've never processed a chicken before but my MIL has, many times. They also do goats. I have been toying with the idea of getting meaties myself this year...but I'm not sure that being 7,8,9 months pregnant and messing with chicken processing would be my thing. Unless I planned it for getting them in July and processing in September...I would be willing to help you and/or even go in with you on an order of meaties--I just don't have anywhere to put them at this time. My MIL usually just rips the breasts out of her older chickens and won't ever do meaties again--but that's because she has a hard time reading & understanding directions--like restricting feed intake.
The last couple she butchered she skins, too....and I know when they tried Muscovy, they just ripped out the breasts.
I would guarantee that you at 7+ months preggo are NOT gonna want to process chickens. I would love to go halves on some meaties...but I also am not set up (at this time) to house them....maybe this is something we could work on for a next year project - or actually, I might be able to come up with something later in the year (fall). Let's talk. If you think that your FIL would process a few meaties for me I would love to talk with him. I just thought if I hatched out some chicks I could butcher them....I would love to have fresh chicken.
REgarding the Roo...keep me in mind when you decide to thin roos. Yes, at this time we only really have room for 1 roo. I have only the one real run and house. I have another run built, but it is mostly for the rabbit...it was also built so we could house extra chickens if we wanted to in the future. I just need to build some kind of housing for it. But it is a good size run for some chickens - like a few meaties - hey I never thought of this space for some meaties...it is approx 8 x 20. We might be able to do this?
