Cornish Cross Spring 2018 Cost/Profit/Loss or Freezer Meat

[NH Homesteader]

Woohoo! I've lost track, how many left to do?

 

[baymule]

Woohoo! I've lost track, how many left to do?

ZERO!! ZERO!! ZERO!!


I could pee my pants.....finally done with fricken chicken!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Wooo Hooooo! That's a good felling I'm sure! So now you don't have to raise no fricken chicken for awhile!

 

[Mini Horses]

Unless she sells more...then it begins again.

After all that, NO ONE could buy one!!! That's a huge amount of work just to butcher & process. That makes you forget the "fun" when raising them

 

[NH Homesteader]

Yeah we've sold them in the past and you can make money, sure... But it's so not worth it! There's not much I enjoy less than raising meat birds!

Did you butcher the Delawares too?

 

[baymule]

Delaware’s got put on the back burner for awhile. The CX were kinda NOW! I still hate the Delaware’s, they are in the cross hairs.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Evil birds... But they're laying eggs so it's not like you're losing anything by waiting!

 

[baymule]

We slaughtered 15 yesterday, gave away 3, so I cut up and packaged 12. I have 7 quart jars of backs and necks in the pressure canner, 5 more for the next batch. Then I have broth simmering on the stove, I’ll can that tonight too. I’m tired.

Robert returned my wash pan that I took their chickens to them in. He described how it took both of them to cut up one chicken and bag it up for the freezer. Neither one had ever cut up a chicken.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Um... I don't know how to cut up a chicken.. My husband has to do it for me

 

[baymule]

Evil birds... But they're laying eggs so it's not like you're losing anything by waiting!

Out of 12, only about 5 eggs.....and the witches eat them!