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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 1:47 pm Post subject: eating chickens
what age can i kill my chickens for eating.cheers

Stacey

Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 8380
Location: Kernow

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 3:04 pm Post subject:
We usually go on what they feel like when we pick them up. Anytime from about 24 weeks on really. Other people may do it differently though.

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 9:31 pm Post subject:
Definately weight and look. Are they a meat bird, or some home bred ones. OUr homebred ones we put into a smaller area for the last couple of weeks, so they don't run all their weight off.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 11:50 pm Post subject:
As the other posters have said - go by what they look like or how desperate you are for some chicken! Home-grown birds we kill at between 16 and 20 weeks, while the bought-in broilers go into the freezer at 12 - 14 weeks. With the broilers, any longer than that they will be more like small turkeys!

Mrs. Tweedie
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 05 1:57 am Post subject: Chickens

We raise meat chickens (pullets) as they have less trouble with heart attacks which can be a problem with cockerals. We find with ours that they must be slaughtered at 10 weeks as by this time their legs are giving out & even if we keep them longer they don't seem to gain any more weight. By this time they usually weigh approx. 5-7 pounds. Good roasting chickens but I don't know the bred as we buy them as day olds.

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treefarm

Joined: 07 Feb 2005
Posts: 146
Location: Cheshire

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 05 10:24 am Post subject:
My morning so far... 6.30 am Woken by an extremely loud COCK A DOODLE DOOOOOOOO 10.30 am Just finish gutting the biggest cockerel of the group. Roast dinner tomorrow I think

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