tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post1696039460148833399..comments2024-02-29T10:26:56.584-05:00Comments on Ohiofarmgirl's Adventures In The Good Land: Meat Chickens. Gone.Ohiofarmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606563929369721111noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-41756846316937772182014-06-30T20:16:14.808-04:002014-06-30T20:16:14.808-04:00Hey OFG,
Just a note - we built a freestanding wa...Hey OFG,<br /><br />Just a note - we built a freestanding walk-in cooler room last fall, we were scrambling for options for butchering the pigz since the weather was promising to be strangely warm on our needful butchering date. Anyway, the thing turned out awesome...and pretty easy to do, all things considered. I recommend it, it is a useful tool to have around a place!<br /><br />Keep at it! Kind Regards, DuncanAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04399496321127936491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-77367249616209184512014-06-24T23:37:18.144-04:002014-06-24T23:37:18.144-04:00Oh boy, it has been a while sense I have said hell...Oh boy, it has been a while sense I have said hello to you. <br />I went from running my simple 7 acrea farm to whoops we are in a rental now. Other than the 2 dogs, 2 cats whom are all very confused about the housing situation as well, we only have chicken. *sobbing*<br />Any who, being in a neighborhood now, I can't wrap my head around how to raise my self some meaties(I may have to share them with the husband and kids if they make me lol). Uggg, save me. Kidnap me and set me free on a farm somewhere. ;)Happy Farming Mommahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12862025738066254922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-32474667966440129282014-06-24T18:12:51.242-04:002014-06-24T18:12:51.242-04:00We started to get meat birds this spring but just ...We started to get meat birds this spring but just had too much going on as we needed to replace the egg layers as well. I think they are hybrid birds and you might not get a meat bird even if they could mate. Now if you put a standard rooster in with them something might come from it. Sunnybrook Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135224259672444423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-23052292781352531862014-06-24T13:28:27.582-04:002014-06-24T13:28:27.582-04:00We don't have any meat chickens here, just our...We don't have any meat chickens here, just our normal flock of hens and cockerels. When any young cockerels start becoming a nuisance to the girls, then we put them into the freezer. <br />I have never had a tough chicken to eat, although the first ones we ate were stringy, and this was because I hurried the cooking of them, so I started slow cooking them.<br />And then I bought my All American Canner, and chicken has tasted even more fabulous ever since. Pop a frozen chicken into the canner for twenty minutes, leave overnight in the canner, then sort out what to do with the cooked meat then next day. <br /><br />I am not sure that we would buy in meat birds. I think that we shall always use our own hen's eggs to keep the chicken numbers up. I think that we would be sensitive to too much controlled breeding of that type of bird. <br /><br />Good luck with the cutting of the hay. Hope the weather stays fine for you so you can the job done.Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13235143664894609891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-21686218045936558792014-06-24T08:27:48.384-04:002014-06-24T08:27:48.384-04:00I m not sure if the meat chickens we get here in A...I m not sure if the meat chickens we get here in Australia are the same as yours but I am not sure ours would have lasted long enough to lay eggs. We did our in 2 batches and the first ones were at 9 weeks and the second ones at 12 weeks and the second ones were huge (around 2.5kg or between 5 and 6 lb to you). How big did yours end up? Ours spent most of their time sitting down and I am not sure how much longer their legs would have lasted.Fiona from Arbordale Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05196630415124998431noreply@blogger.com