I have also watched him slaughter fowl (different method) that he had had since fowl-ettes and that had pet names.
His methods were admirable. He picked up each animal separately so that there was no viewing (or even recognition of any last-second fear) for the remaining animals, and carried it to the slaughter van, way out of sight and sound of the others.
I was very impressed with the care he took to be humane (more humane than he is with many a chef-in-training! ), clean, etc.
I raised 20 meat birds last year and butchered them all by myself. I am glad to know *I CAN* do it, but this year I am planning to do 60 meat birds in 2 batches of 30 and have them processed by someone professionally. There is something to be said about dropping them off all at once and getting them back a few hours later in bags.
Last year I raised the cornish rock broilers from Welp Hatchery in Iowa. I will get some from them again this year, but I am also going to try a slower growing variety that acts more chicken-like. The broilers are the laziest messiest birds I have ever seen.
I also am incubating coturnix quail and egg layer type birds- so excess cockerels will be dog food. I just hatched 12 quail earlier this week. I am setting 40 chicken eggs in the incubator in the morning.
WARNING... logging on to Backyard Chickens will cause addiction to quack!
If I hadn't found that forum, I would be somewhat normal. haha Stay away from buy, sell, trade. You will find yourself wanting all kinds of rare breeds of chickens. They are all just an incubator away.
My flock consists of Buff orpingtons, Cuckoo Marans, Barred Rock, White cochins, a Black Australorp, 3 bantam RIR, and one lonely cayuga drake who keeps trying to make chucks or dickens with my hens. I am hatching out Brabanters, Ameracauna, and Copper Black Marans.
I can see a rooster training section of the forum coming soon to Leerburg.com LOL I have a dominant rooster. If he can't be retrained he will be Coq au vin soon.
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I can see a rooster training section of the forum coming soon to Leerburg.com LOL I have a dominant rooster. If he can't be retrained he will be Coq au vin soon.
I have already decided to go with just hens to start with and not add the bossy guy until I have a bit of experience under my belt....
The backyard chicken site is what has gotten me going, so I know exactly what you mean about being addicted to quack!! I had NO idea people could get so attached to chickens!! LOL! I should have known better... we have a koi pond and I've named all our babies "aka aqua grandbabies" over the years!
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