butchering

  1. F

    Accidentally cut the crop

    Hey everyone! First time butchering one of my roosters and as I was doing it I believe I cut the crop (the balloon type thing on the esophagus) . I was wondering if I still removed it, if it is safe to still eat the chicken? It looked like there wasn't anything in the crop when it happened. Any...
  2. KikiDeAnime

    Tips for butchering/processing alone??

    Just found out that next year after raising the red rangers, I will have do all the butchering myself. For those who don't know, I'm getting 8-10 of them so that should give you an idea. We currently don't have a killing cone to use but I will be getting one soon. I will also have to do the...
  3. WatkinsCluckers

    Raising Meat Chickens

    I love the idea of selling meat chickens, but I hate the idea of physically killing them (ironic, I know). For y'all that sell chickens for meat, is there a common practice of raising the chickens to their appropriate age and then sending them all off to get butchered and dressed for you? Or do...
  4. ChickChic00

    Butchering Question

    Hi, first time I'm gonna butcher probably later today. If I just want the breasts, wings,Thighs and legs. Can I just cut those parts off? Instead of dealing with the guts and lungs and such?
  5. Z

    Butchering help

    We have a mixed flock of chickens. Six months old. We had three roosters and we decided to butcher and eat. We gve a killing cone, but something is not working. I have watched numerous videos and butchering books with detailed pictures. But I feel like I am doing something wrong. When I go to...
  6. Quail_Kid

    Butchering quail today!

    I'm butchering 4 A&Ms 1 male and 3 females. Is there another way to butcher without beheading? need advice!
  7. CarnardusBarbarius

    Muscovy Drake too gamey? - butcher or exile?

    Hi all. I'm having some trouble deciding what to do with our year old drake. The interwebs has not been helpful, so here I am :-) Will the meat from a year old drake be too gamey if we butcher him now? We have only butchered once before, a year old female that we rescued from a badger a little...
  8. ScarletinaVixen

    Ideal Hatchery Black Broiler: honest review

    I would like to contribute my experience with Ideal Poultry's Black Broilers. First, these birds are hardy and gentle. I butchered several (I do it by hand- cervical dislocation- minimal flapping) and they were calm during the entire process. They matured slower than I would have liked on 24%...
  9. C

    Butchering Quail Without Beheading

    So, I've a dumb question for y'all. I need to butcher a quail tomorrow, an aggressive and poorly behaved rooster that I can't afford to keep with the rest of my little flock. He'll go in my freezer and be delicious once I cook him. However, he's beautiful, and I'm pretty experienced in skinning...
  10. vyieort

    Updating My Book on Poultry Processing

    Hi folks! My name is Adam Danforth and I wrote a few books on slaughtering and butchering that came out a couple years back. (I think some of you have mentioned them from time to time on here.) One covers poultry (and rabbits, sheep, and pork. I'm working on expanding the poultry information...
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    • butchering on-farm poultry processing slaughtering
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    • Forum: Meat Birds ETC
  11. guardianoftheflock

    Ascites In chicken

    Can anybody give me a quick reply! I was wondering if a chicken that has ascite fluid on the meat when butchered is safe to eat. Thank You!!!
  12. Allaroundfarmgirl

    Cornish cross edible?

    Hi, I just started raising Cornish cross. I have only had egg laying hens before this. I read a lot about the breed before getting into them and everything was going super (@ 7 weeks) until I brought home 3 ayam cemanis. They all get along but a few days later my Cornish cross started...
  13. HinterlandHomestead

    Advice on butchering extra Roos?

    How old do roosters need to be to butcher? Can I keep them all together until that age? I have a couple different med breeds. Also I am not sure i’m up for the butchering myself, at least not the first time. And I know my husband won’t do it. How do I go about finding someone to butcher my...
  14. J

    Plucking Question

    Ok, so I have two Cornish Rocks 6-7 weeks old. Didn't realize what they were when I bought them. I need to look at butchering them, since its time and since they're eating a LOT and since I want to make room for more egg layers. I've cleaned and dressed hundreds of ducks, and a fair amount of...
    • JDN
    • Thread
    • butchering cornish cross cornish roaster plucking scalding
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Meat Birds ETC
  15. Joeschooks

    Photos of your meat

    I've not yet butchered a chicken but I am hatching more now and finding homes for the boys is becoming increasingly difficult. As such I'm only used to big meaty store-bought chickens. I think my next hatch is going to be Legbar (not ideal for meat I know) and Wyandotte. Does anyone have photos...
    • Joeschooks
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    • butchering chicken dressing legbar non-meat breeds roosters wyandotte
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: Meat Birds ETC
  16. Lyricandnoah

    Help! Safe to butcher a frozen bird?

    We were away for the holidays and one of our hens died under our neighbors watch. He put her in our freezer thinking we would prefer not to waste the meat, which is true. We figured we would process her when we returned. So we have an entire bird, feathers and all, that has been in the freezer...
  17. T

    Tough Chicken

    We butchered our chickens, they were 32 weeks old, right before Thanksgiving. Since then we have eaten one roaster which turned out delicious and tonight had fried chicken and it was touch and most of the bird was not edible. I am wondering if we did something wrong after butchering them. We...
  18. F

    Processors in Southeast Ohio?

    I bought a straight run of beautiful Black Copper Maran chicks, and now that they are full grown, I have a number of roos that are not doing me any favors. Tried putting them on craigslist, but now, with not much interest, going to put them in the freezer, hate to, but have to. I have looked...
  19. MamaHen11

    What common meatie ailments do you see?

    Hello all! I'm about to start harvesting my first batch of meaties (Rainbow Rangers, then Grey Rangers later). I know some of them breathe heavily, but it seems like it is from the weight they lug around, rather than an infection or defect. They do sneeze right when I first put food down, but I...
    • MamaHen11
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    • butcher butchering harvest meat birds meat chickens ranger
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    • Forum: Meat Birds ETC
  20. Fanci Feathers Marans

    Culls: to eat or not to eat?

    Hi, everyone. I have Marans as you can probably tell, and have found several than I would never want to hatch chicks from. Problem is, I have a small flock. I have names for these things. But I need the space for my next batch of chicks. When I hatched them, I told myself we were going to eat...
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