What about butchering extra roosters for others?

[BigBlueHen53]

After plucking and butchering my own cockerel, I honestly can't even imagine paying someone else only $2. It was a lot of work! I'm sure it gets easier with practice but it look me a long time. I was pausing and starting a how-to youtube video, though, so that probably slowed me down.

I would imagine my Mrs. W probably has all sorts of equipment like a plucking machine to make it easier for her. $2 a head is ridiculous(ly cheap) but I'm not complaining. If it was just a friend or relative doing it for me, I would not hesitate to pay $5 a head and maybe one chicken for every five butchered. I know Mrs W does volume work, I've taken three or four birds over there of a morning and seen two or three dog cages with seven or eight birds each in them, ready to go, and this was before 8 a.m.

 

[Apis mellifera]

I'm just trying to work out the pros and cons. I came here to talk it out with everyone and see if it's even worth it?

I think its a great idea. There are local butchers here that will process beef, pork, poultry, venison, anything you bring them. I know one guy charges about 10 dollars for turkeys.

 

[Buffbrahmabantam]

I think it is a great idea! I hope it works out for you. I remember when we got our first roosters and were newbies it was so intimidating to think of butchering and I would definitely have paid someone! We had to figure it out ourselves and have butchered many roosters since then, and quite a lot of ducks because we care about how our meat was raised and treated, but I still hate doing it. If someone offered this for that money, especially if they did it at my house (less stress for the birds) I’d definitely pay that much. I be willing to pay a lot more in fact, like $10. I hate the killing part. Everything else is fine.

 

[Rocky Mtn Sunshine]

Anyone in or around Denver, Colorado offering butchering service?

 

[Backroadlogic]

I butcher my friends chickens on trade. If my buddy brings over 10 I will do 8 for him and keep 2, etc

 

[Rocky Mtn Sunshine]

Wish you were local!

 

[Tex452]

I butcher my friends chickens on trade. If my buddy brings over 10 I will do 8 for him and keep 2, etc

That’s a good deal.
I gave my sister a bunch of pullets and a few roosters, when the roosters got big enough I butchered them for her, but I let her have all of them.

 

[Backroadlogic]

That’s a good deal.
I gave my sister a bunch of pullets and a few roosters, when the roosters got big enough I butchered them for her, but I let her have all of them.

I feel it's pretty fair for everyone. I can dispatch and prep a chicken pretty quick. Ive been putting off getting a plucker but i know need to invest in one. My kids are 4 & 5 now though so I have 2 little pluckers in training. I just hate plucking ducks

 

[Tex452]

I feel it's pretty fair for everyone. I can dispatch and prep a chicken pretty quick. Ive been putting off getting a plucker but i know need to invest in one. My kids are 4 & 5 now though so I have 2 little pluckers in training. I just hate plucking ducks

Growing up we didn’t know what a picker was, mama would tell me how many chickens she wanted butchered, when I got home from school I would do it, and be done before she got home from work, sometimes it would be 12-15 of them.
I didn’t mind doing it at all, it’s not the killing part, it’s the idea of putting good meat in the freezer.
Plus mama made the best fried chicken I’ve ever ate.

 

[Backroadlogic]

Growing up we didn’t know what a picker was, mama would tell me how many chickens she wanted butchered, when I got home from school I would do it, and be done before she got home from work, sometimes it would be 12-15 of them.
I didn’t mind doing it at all, it’s not the killing part, it’s the idea of putting good meat in the freezer.
Plus mama made the best fried chicken I’ve ever ate.

My kids already understand the necessity, trying to raise them right. Nothing as cute as my little girl asking if we are going to eat the pig today in a sweet little southern accent lol