When to butcher?

[Chickengirl1304]

How old should I let my barred rock roosters and my blue laced red Cornish bantams get before butchering them?

 

[booker81]

It all depends on what you want to use them for. For roasting, you'll probably want to slaughter at not much more than 20 weeks, but you won't have much of a big carcass - still tasty though.

If you want stew or stock, let them live as long as you can stand them. I've processed two year old birds, they make the best stock.