Butchering Chickens

[Frank Surber]

ON the BBC the other day they were talking about chicken taking over as the meat protein favorite of the world. Pork producers are soon to be left wallowing in the pig sty so to speak.
Some lab is attempting to grow chicken meat without the rest of the chicken just the white meat or dark meat no bones feathers or anything else. I believe there is a 1 million dollar prize for the first be able to produce this in commercial quantities
That leaves me out I don't care that much for chicken anyway.
My biggest problem with chicken is no matter how you cook it , it still tastes like chicken At least turkey can be made to imitate the taste of ham sort of and you can make bacon out of Veal for all of those who suffer from porkaphobia

[Ed of all trades]

We used to kill 200 every other year. Waited until the legs were about 2 1/2 in across. the meat tasted more like meat than chicken from the store does today. Hope to have about 75 or so to do this year. Hope to build a wizbang plucker as well.

[PRF]

I used to raise 50-100 meat birds at a time, and found the cones the best way to kill them... Trick is to sever the main artery in the neck without cutting the entire head off.. The bird's heart will pump most all of its blood out into a pail that way making less of a mess...

[jerrybob]

When I was a kid....my Grandpa had some luck cross breeding some chickens. He crossed one chicken with an old guitar.......boy....did she sound pretty when he plucked her.

[ghenges]

Killing, plucking and eviscerating chickens -- been there, done that.

Maybe do one for Sunday dinner, but ...... do a whole bunch? -- no way.

Don't outsource much work, however doing chickens is an outsourcing no-brainer.

Tip I reluctantly learned from my spouse:
If you raise Cornish Rocks for meat; purchase all pullets.
They won't grow as large, but they will be more tender.
Plus you won't have as much trouble with them getting bad legs either.

[Depmandog]

I like boneless chicken, but they just lay there on the dirt all day.

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I am still laughing!! That was priceless.

[RobertBrown]

ON the BBC the other day they were talking about chicken taking over as the meat protein favorite of the world. Pork producers are soon to be left wallowing in the pig sty so to speak.
Some lab is attempting to grow chicken meat without the rest of the chicken just the white meat or dark meat no bones feathers or anything else. I believe there is a 1 million dollar prize for the first be able to produce this in commercial quantities

A biotech company in Massachusetts called AquaBounty created the AquaAdvantage salmon, which is really an Atlantic salmon with an added Pacific salmon gene to make it grow faster and an added eel gene to make it grow year-round.
also known as "FRANKENFISH"
Genetically Modified 'Frankenfish' Nears FDA Approval as Debate Heats Up - ABC News

[Frank Surber]

with over 7 billion on this planet the available food supply needs all the help it can get.
in the agriculture industry the percentage of farmers who grow food to feed the masses is dropping more and more each year. Someone on another web site that it is nearly 2 to 98 now.
All of this clap trap spewing from the mouths of the 98 against genetically modified foods is just plain stupidity on their part. if they can't get used to the idea of the processes then they need to study where most of the food of today comes from and how it came into being.
The corn that so many eat every day for instance did not even exist naturally

[Kyle_in_Tex]

At what age is a chicken too old to be a fryer?

[jerrybob]

At what age is a chicken too old to be a fryer?

A fryer is 7-13 weeks old according to the experts.