Processing some extra roosters we hatched out. Nothing goes to waste here on our farm. We hatch hundreds of eggs each year, and raise our replacement layers. The extra roosters go to the freezer. Farm fresh, free range barred rock and road island reds. Doesn't get much better than that. I've had a lot of folks stop in and ask for chickens here lately. Shop local when you can folks.

(4) 16 week old Barred rocks and RIR's


A couple hours in the smoker, and we have several meals for my family.

Looks good.

There are local folks here too, who sell eggs, a local butcher company who raises amazing black and Guss cattle , and processes pork to sell.

Others sell goat milk, and goat meat.

I have always bought from local farms...they are so valuable to everyone.

Yum whats the average weight pintail asking as i've only grown cornish cross

At 16 weeks these guys are not as big as CC at 8 weeks for sure. But The 2 big ones were a little over 3# and the smaller ones were both around 2lb 10oz.

Those look great!!

Pintail,
What about the feed? Do you separate out the extra roosters and put them on higher protein feed?

Beautiful looking chickens . Local eggs are definitely available here @ different price points.

Your market is likely different than our market is here, but in the Spring, large, strong looking Rhode Island Red roosters sell very well to Black Africans, who sacrifice and eat them to improve or maintain their virility. Red roosters commonly go from $20.00 to $40.00 each in the Spring here. I sold 1 for $100.00 once, that I wanted to keep as a backup, when it was the only 1 around. Many Black African men fear they can't perform sexually if they don't sacrifice and eat a red rooster in the Spring, a white rooster in the Summer and a black rooster in the Fall. There is one day they have to sacrifice all 3 colors too, that depends on their saint/god's feast day.

Keith

Its always a great feeling to look back in the evening and realize everything the family ate today we provided. Produce, eggs,meat, and milk. Meat is raised or hunted.. Yet not completely true we bought the salt and few other small things like that.


Keith how would be go about finding the ethnic populations around my area?

Good Gravy Man does it work??? I thought it was cause i was 70 here its cause i been butcherin white hens

I don't eat roosters.......I'm just very virile I guess.

Very nice and alot better for you without all the steroids.

I like it!

we used to raise jumbo Cornish rock when I was a kid. had to put something in the water so they wouldn't go down. because they grew so fast there legs wouldn't support the weight or so I was told. used to have 4lb to 5lb by the fourth of july.

My smoker holds at least 14 chickens. Used to have a party. Neighbors were told to bring two 5 lb chickens and put them in a big cooler at the back door. We brined the birds overnight and smoked them the next day. Everyone got to take a whole chicken home.

Yankee friends didn’t get it. One brought about an 8 lb hen and another brought cut up chickens, which the guys ate for snacks with sausage while we were smoking the whole birds. The huge half cooked hen went home with its owner.

You can lead them to water, …….

The Rhode Island Reds are a great all around chicken.Thats what I raise.You can get some big ones if you capon the roosters.

You got some serious marketing going on, Keith C.

That's Quite a unique market

I've never caponed any roosters, that is something I'd like to learn. But is it really worth it?

I remember when I was butchering a lot of chickens, Cornish cross and white rock roosters. the Filipinos would come looking for gallons and gallons of chicken blood for soup or whatever they were doing with it and the polacks would buy the feet. Made good money for stuff I always let go to waste.