Posts Tagged With: butchering
A Chicken in Every Yard
Apologies to Herbert Hoover who said “A Chicken in Every Pot.” There is a big push to know where your food comes from; grow it or know your farmer. I believe much of this has to do with concern about our food processing system in this country. This latest pink slime issue drives home the [...]
Six, ten, twelve?
Right now as I ponder this spring’s chick selection I am also debating how many to get. I know that six is the best number to over winter, no questions on that number. So the debate is how many do I want for the freezer? How many do I want to butcher? What chicken breeds [...]
And then there were eight.
“Butchering a chicken is like cleaning a big fish or cleaning a toilet. Any one can do it, but why would you want to?” thanks to the City Girl Farmer blog for that quote. Boy do I agree with that one. When we lived in Michigan you could take your chickens to the Amish [...]
The Rooster is Now a Roaster
We butcher our first chicken since we started with a backyard flock over 2 years ago. Up until this time we had always been able to rehome our unwanted birds via Craig’s List or Freecycle. Of course all the birds we had not wanted had been hens. There is always a market for good laying [...]
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