What a difference!

[michickenwrangler]

Last week, we bought a huge roaster Cornish X from our neighbors (already processed) and ate it a few days ago. The birds were free-range.

What a difference! It had some flavor and texture to it. My husband doesn't want grocery store chicken any more.

Home-grown meat is the best!

 

[gumpsgirl]

I'm going to have to try raising some meat birds. I've heard everyone who has done it say what you've just said!

 

[max13077]

It's insane the difference. Even better I think are non-meat roosters like barred rocks and kinds like that. The meat is MUCH more full flavored. When it's about the chicken, I like those. When it's about the sauce or whatever, I like the X's.

Either way, you know you aren't eating all the nasty "whatever's" the birds are exposed to in production. A book I read about meat birds turned me off to ever eating store chicken again. The part that really got me was when they processed the birds. They're cooled down in the same water they used to wash them out with!! YUCK!!!! All that poop, blood, and who knows what else basically marinating the bird!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

I couldn't agree more! Even to the point of when we go to a cook out we bring our own chicken. lol I know it's tacky but..... we normally end up with people wanting ours after a taste.

Steve in NC

 

[chicks4kids]

Absolutely...eating our first home grown chicken last week has put my husband into the "I'm makin' you a whizbang dear" gear....I can't wait--no more pluckin' for me!!

The flavor is amazing and to be honest, more filling...noone wanted a snack that night...they weren't hungry.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

That's one of the reasons we raise the different fowl that we do, ducks, turkeys, quail, guineas. We eat more poultry than anything else.

Even each chicken has a different taste and texture from the Buff Orp to the Dark Cornish to the Marans

Steve in NC

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

Yes it is!!

 

[Bossroo]

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Is all of this YUCK really going on ?????? All slaughter houses are regulated by USDA and State health departments to very strict standards. All processing are inspected by USDA and/ or State licenced Veterinarians. Are they in dereleliction of duty ??? Has anyone here actually witnessed this sad state of affairs ??? If so, they are to be turned in to the law enforcement agencies for procecution as they are endangering the public's health and lives by these witnesses. When I worked for an institution of higher education as well as a private laboratory, I had occasion to go to slaughter houses to collect specimens and I never witnessed any of such claims of YUCK.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Quote:
Is all of this YUCK really going on ?????? All slaughter houses are regulated by USDA and State health departments to very strict standards. All processing are inspected by USDA and/ or State licenced Veterinarians. Are they in dereleliction of duty ??? Has anyone here actually witnessed this sad state of affairs ??? If so, they are to be turned in to the law enforcement agencies for procecution as they are endangering the public's health and lives by these witnesses. When I worked for an institution of higher education as well as a private laboratory, I had occasion to go to slaughter houses to collect specimens and I never witnessed any of such claims of YUCK.

I worked in a meat packing house years ago and yes the "yuck" goes on.

Steve in NC

 

[NancyP]

You guy are all making me hungry to try my first home grown chicken. I will be starting out with the dual purpose and see how that goes. For now I am chicken less till we move

Nancy