Keeping Poultry for meat.

Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Brambling

Re: Keeping Poultry for meat.

Post by Brambling »

Had the bird for dinner tonight. It was FANTASTIC! really tasty and the meat was just buttery tender. There didn't look to be a lot of meat on it, but there is easily enough meat left for a pie and soup! Brambling jnr summed it up.....nom, nom, nom! :D
Passingfroo

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Just discovered Preppers (although I guess we have been preppers in spirit for some time). I'm trying to PM Northern Raider to get his pdf on keeping chooks. How does one pm please?
bigpaul

Re: Keeping Poultry for meat.

Post by bigpaul »

For further information, i suggest you read: Keeping poultry and rabbits on scraps by Claude Goodchild and Alan Thompson, published by penguin. isbn 978-0-141-03862-9, price £6-99. originally published in 1941 republished in 2008.
Longjohns

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Post by Longjohns »

Found this a short while ago, if anyone's interested.

http://butcherachicken.blogspot.com/

Looks quite useful, although only for people who don't already know how to butcher a chicken.
Brambling

Re: Keeping Poultry for meat.

Post by Brambling »

bigpaul wrote:For further information, i suggest you read: Keeping poultry and rabbits on scraps by Claude Goodchild and Alan Thompson, published by penguin. isbn 978-0-141-03862-9, price £6-99. originally published in 1941 republished in 2008.
Got this, It's a really handy book.
buttystella

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Post by buttystella »

i have kept chickens for a few years but never could bring myself to wring their necks. What i do is put some feed down and a bit of lead in the back of its head works, probably more humane to.