scarlettohara Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Well done both of you I'm having a home made marguerita pizza for dinner and have juggled my runs today to accomodate my cockerel growers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 shall I pop over to help Sha, or have you managed? I always use the broom handle for large meat birds as my hands just aren't big enough to neck them. When I need to cull one of my small banties, I use a hatchet as I learned from my Nonno; I just find it more impersonal as they are my pets. I was frozen to the bone too.. got cold and damp (now you know why I ear 5 layers in the winter ), got even colder and wetter when I walked the dogs later, so just lit the stove and warmed up. My Rosie is like Lewis - doesn't really feel the cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 That'll be their age hunny, I vaguely remember the days of not wearing warm clothes & not noticing the chill...I've grown out of it now though .........did you know "a coat is something you wear when your mother is cold"...told to us by DD's head teacher, her daughter had said it to her when told to put a coat on I was shivering violently yesterday though, so I must be getting old Sha x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 I went on the earlier course than chook and boo mum but also found it a useful experience. I am looking forward to my roast dinner on thurs from my dispatched chicken, and we have eaten the prepared one from the course yesterday and today I now feel ready to handle my boy chicks respecting them in the best way possible, as whilst they need to be dispatched, they will be dispatched as humanely as possible and will give us a meal. I have to say I enjoyed the course in a weird kind of way.. I felt a sadness at dispatching, but ultimately it was the chickens purpose, as it is with my boys. But my old biology a level kicked in at gutting, I loved that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Glad I'm not the only one who lays the guts out to check them Don't forget to make stock from the carcass; a well reared bird makes excellent stock or soup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Well we had a roast chicken dinner today from the bird I dispatched, it was delicious, and I found I appreciated the meal more having killed, plucked and gutted the bird myself We have chicken sarnies for work tomorrow, the dog and the cat have had some skin and will make a soup from the wings and the carcass It is a bird that will feed us well and be respected in life and death Good job I'm ready, my first cockerel has started early crowing (still rather weak at the moment) so he's getting extra corn to improve his meat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
