Comments on: Chicken Dinner

By: egglovermummy

egglovermummy — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:31:59 +0000

Great ideas on this site, thanks. I honestly took the plunge and got me some chickens last week! Now I have more eggs than I know what to do with!. You might be interested in these egg recipes.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:40:27 +0000

We raised chickens when I was a kid.
Let me just tell you, you never look at your mother the same way after you’ve seen her chop off a chickens head with a butcher knife!
(And yes, they do “Jump around like a chicken with it’s head cut off”)
I remember mom holding them by the feet, dipping them in scalding hot water, and then we kids got to pluck the feathers.
One year she rented a fancy automated chicken plucker, which was basically a little wheel with rubber fingers on it that spun around really fast.
Boy, those feathers just went flying! It gave us kids more time to “peel” the gizzards. (Which, now that I think about it, is soooo gross!!)
Thanks for the memories!! (I think) ;0)

By: Jana Ostler

Jana Ostler — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:46:17 +0000

I am glad you decided to have salad instead. We raise all our own meat, beef, pigs, goats, rabbit and yes chickens. We have found that if you let freshly butchered meat rest in the refridgerator for at least 12 hours, it is much more tender and less stringy. I used to raise cornish cross, but wasnt happy with the health issues involved either. I switched to white rocks, they grow as big, a little slower, but are great meat chickens, and they breed true, so i can use them for egg laying all year and incubate my own meat chickens every summer. We alternate them with our rabbits, which i like even better, to raise, no incubating or brooding momma does all the work, and so much easier to butcher. They are ready to eat in 12 weeks.