New Australorp Rooster
Meet the new “cock o’ the walk”, Big Oz!
Rooster Processing Day
I processed four surplus roosters last weekend. Having an organised workflow makes the whole thing a lot faster and easier! There are no graphic photos in this post.
Roadside Finds – Chicken Tractor
A friend will help you move. A real friend will help you recover discarded treasures from the side of the road!
Processing Roosters
Yesterday I showed a friend how to kill, pluck and clean a chicken.
Missing Hen Returns With Chicks
Our missing hen returns with a pleasant surprise for us – four gorgeous little chicks!
DIY Chicken Processing Station
A cheap and simple home-made chicken processing station. It also doubles as a very handy outdoor sink for washing vegetables, plant pots and tools.
An Alternative Broody Hen Solution
If you’ve got a broody hen, rather than trying to “break her” why not let her raise a clutch of eggs? It requires almost no effort on your part, and is a lot of fun.
Processing Chickens
That’s the euphemism for those that don’t like to say “slaughtering and butchering chickens”! I processed the last two roosters from our first batch of chicks today. We’re keeping the one female from the group to join our layer flock. This photo is from the start of June – I just realised I hadn’t taken … [Read more…]
Playing With Their Food
I was telling some friends at work about our new chicks, and when I mentioned that we were growing them out for meat they asked if our girls – aged 4, 6 and 8 – knew. To be honest, we’ve been upfront with them since before the chicks hatched. We’ve been clear all along that … [Read more…]
Hatching Chicks
This story has been a bit of a saga. Remember back when I got Molly the leghorn to go broody and slipped some eggs under her? Well, none hatched. I think it was a combination of inexperienced first-time mother and low fertility rate of eggs. She was sitting on 6 eggs: three exploded in the … [Read more…]