What to feed chickens before I butcher them?

[LindaB220]

I strongly suspect that it would alter the taste of the meat. In reading up on the Breese chickens they finish the birds on a diet of rice and dairy.

The beef cows are not the only thing that seems to change flavor with diet (read up on Kobe beef), pigs for black forest hams are fed a special diet as are the Smithfield Virginia hams (Peanuts) and Spain has their special diet also.

I want to try a finishing diet for Capons with the cooked rice and dairy and perhaps another trial with malted barley. With Malted barley most of the starch in the grain is converted to sugar so that might have a nice effect. You might want to take this a step further and make up a mash from the barley pitch some brewers yeast but cut short of full strength beer fermentation.

Roger, this is most interesting. The malted barley. Where would you find it. I was thinking of oats and dairy but maybe rice would be better. Hummmmmm

 

[RogerShoaf]

Roger, this is most interesting. The malted barley. Where would you find it. I was thinking of oats and dairy but maybe rice would be better. Hummmmmm

Look up beer making supplies. Malted barley is un-milled barley that is dampened and allowed to sprout, then re-dried. The sprouting causes the barley to produce an enzime that converts the starch to a sugar.

 

[LindaB220]

Look up beer making supplies. Malted barley is un-milled barley that is dampened and allowed to sprout, then re-dried. The sprouting causes the barley to produce an enzime that converts the starch to a sugar.

Way too cost prohibitive for me. You can do the same with whole barley. I googled Beer Making Supplies and got a 5 gallon stainless steel pot for $20 Thanks for the info. See we find things in the most unusual places. And I will need one for processing

 

[Glenda Heywoodo]

Well the Bresse chicken formula is to use
Milk soaked ground corn for:
The final phase of the growing process is done in wooden coops in a dim, calm,
and well-ventilated structure. The chickens are cooped up for 8 to 15 days, and
capons and poulards for 4 weeks. It was, for a while at least, a life of luxury.

postedchickenlady1957

But the object to doing is this:
capons are then put in this wooden structure to solely eat and sleep.
No actual activity to the capon

Thttps://www.backyardchickens.com/t/866299/french-standards-for-raising-bresse-meat-chickenshe milk soaked ground corn is the fating agent and no activity.