weight qustion

[farmer_Jim]

just wondering if somone could tell me on average how manny lbs are lost from live weight-after butcher

 

[Raisinghens]

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Hi farmer _ Jim, I do not yet know what it is with poultry but with cattle dead weight ( skinned and gutted, and the head gone ) is about 60% of the live weight.All the best.

 

[Le Canard de Barbarie]

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For some ducks, it is about 70%. Don't know if this applies to your sitution.

http://metzerfarms.com/comm.htm

 

[Brunty_Farms]

70% is a good number to go by, however some claim to have 75% with poultry.

I think it would be less for livestock.

 

[cassie]

For broiler/fryer the yield is about 75%, the waste is about 25%. For a stewing hen the waste is about 30% and the yield about 70%. I got this from the book Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow. It is pretty close. When we weighed some of our first batch of roasters a 12 pound live chicken dressed out about nine pounds,

 

[jaku]

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Great book- that and Pastured Poultry Profits.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

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Great book- that and Pastured Poultry Profits.

Those are the only two poultry books that I open most.... lol...