Troy back on the farm growing up we had hogs but they didnt get old chickens. The older tough birds got processed and canned that takes not only toughness out but makes the meat moist. Open up a jar of chickenheat it up with some potatoes and gravy. Now that is a serious meal anytime but especially good on cold winter days. Canning will tenderize the toughest meats and make it yummy and like you said alot more flavorful. My guess is being you market meat you could likely market canned chicken. Afterall canning is the safest form of. I market canned good although not meat we make applebutter, jams, jellies and syrup. There is a growing demand for homestyle canned goods.
We have a weekend in late fall, we kill skin and pressure cook it in the evening, let it cool in the cookers overnight then cook soup and can it the next.
I used to cull. Then I separated them and employed the hens to create compost for the balance of their years by scratching and picking. Best garden material ever! Multipurpose Farm stock. 🐓+ 💩+ ☘️🍃🌾🌿🥬🥦🥕🍓🌽🍅🥒🥔🍠+ 🕰= 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 ❤️.
I am thinking of building a chicken coop for about 4 or 5 chickens , I’m trying to weigh the expense of feeding and caring for the chickens with the benefit of fresh eggs , the question of what to do with them after they stop laying crossed my mind , I can’t get a consistent average for laying age and slaughter age for eating the chickens , everybody has different breeds , so if I may ask you a question , do you ever slaughter the laying hens before they are too old to eat ? It seems after 2 years the chicken is too old , is that correct ? Thank you for the video , I think you would be a good neighbor to have .
If it were up to me, Id keep them alive but Id add more younger hens to the flock. Its a bit of an additional cost but if its like 2 or 4 hens, its manageable especially since theyre pets and companions and I just gather some of the eggs for consumption while the others are for raising the next generation.
I have a migraine this morning and the two I’ve been needing to cull are confirming their impending death this morning-they are old and crotchety and won’t SHUT UP !
My mom used to butcher older free range hens for dinner. I didn’t know that the chicken meat could be tender until I ate one at a restaurant. I prefer rabbit meat from the yard over chicken any day of the week.
simple, each year you get chicks you put a colored band on there leg for that year, and when they hit 3 years old it is simple all the ones with the color band from 3 years ago, off with the head and bag um in feed bags and you have a line up of people paying you 2 bucks a bird,, only head off, i use a heave peace of wire about 4 feet long and bend a hook on one end and bend the wire so the hook rides flat on the ground, and you dont move, you move the wire hook along the ground and hook one by one by the leg just above the foot, and pull them up side down, very fast and no bending over,, old coat hangers work best, i feed a lot of them to my pigs, they love them and clean up everything
love the cue in country fiddle music and the use of euphemisms (ie "dispatch").....and what happened to "three strikes and your out?" I think I counted 8-10 whiffs?. Interesting video as usual for this city slicker who knows nothing about what you folks do on the farms but respects it greatly.
I can relate Troy, I never killed a chicken in front of my little ones either, they hated finding out the rabbit never escaped either.. bad day for dads that day for sure. I never in my life ever expected this one though. I was figuring on eggs but in the chicken house but, they never laid. So when investigating some more I found out they were too cold out there. So being the kind guy dads are I penned them under my stairway up to the back of the house, it was all boxed in so tight that I had to run a coule heat lamps cause we were getting a real cold spell. Now this was only going to be a day two tops. I was working my little hobby ranch and working ten to twelve hour days in the woods (logger) and sure enough I checked on them day three, they had all the fresh water and feed so it kinda windmilled into a week. I go out and out of curiosity check them before building and to be honest, I was tired with never having even one day off. I opened the door and these are fairly social chickens and they come right up to me and I'm looking about to see how much poo that I'm going to have to pressure wash out and regretting putting them there. What I did see floored me. I gathered up a large bucket and dang near filled it collecting eggs. They were not only laying but it looked like about a two a day!!! I had eggs running out my well you know. I left things as was as the kids can gather eggs and I will tear down stairs in spring and move them to their own house again. They did finally slow down but I figured that cause the heat lamp was on they were not doing much time in their nests as they were eating well enough. I figure that is my best one so to me it was great Troy to remember old times
place in the cone, pull the head through the other side. one swift motion of a seriously sharp blade. leave in the cone till they stop flowing. Standing blood in the meat ruins it. Even for pigs. Its not pretty, but its a reality of homesteading.
What is NOT HUMANE about this farmer is killing these chickens thoughtlessly in front of the other chickens. If someone gathered him, his wife, his parents, his children together and a few if his neighbors and friends in the living room of his house and slowly, one at a time cut his wife's throat, bled her out, cut his son's throat, his mom's throat... bled them out and let him watch and hear it he would claim it doesn't upset him. He would be a liar to say it didn't upset him. So - As a murderer, do every animal a solid courtesy since they are being killed and take one at a time into a closed off area, where no other animals can witness this Natzi-like beheading of Biblical proportions and have dignity for the creature and their years of prior service of eggs to you and your family. Be a higher quality of human being. Do you have a responsibility to be a better person?
He make the others watch the processing so all that cortisol is released right before their last breath. I would not eat those chickens as the effects of cortisol / stress hormones can be seen on the farmer’s stomach. You become what you eat.
Allowing sows to eat meat/blood meal will also help prevent a sow from eating their piglets if they have any. There was an old man around here that would go periodically to the sale barn and buy an old mule or horse that was destined for the glue factory and he would buy it, take it out to the hog lot and dispatch it, word of the day I guess, and let the hogs have at it... not a tooth or hair left in the lot in short time.
A guy I worked with told me when his chickens would not lay eggs he would put out a KFC bucket in the hen house. Funny he never really said how well that worked.
yep much easier with a stick or the like. as far as I can remember I was taught to use a stick for a rushing rooster when I was younger....and when I got my own chicks I went straight to the stick method as soon as they gave me the chicken shuffle when trying to catch them. Course at least 1 would usually go straight to me...she was a leader and like to be held and around me.
Amateur raiser & wrangler, birds scream when caught and you feel a need to choke them out to get them under control. Respect the animals you are working with, Red "Fool" House - Homestead .
Chicken chokers are amateurs - Sorry! Your views will stay low forever, which is fine by me! You've proven to be not much smarter than your chickens just by watching you try to catch them........ Cheers!
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Troy back on the farm growing up we had hogs but they didnt get old chickens. The older tough birds got processed and canned that takes not only toughness out but makes the meat moist. Open up a jar of chickenheat it up with some potatoes and gravy. Now that is a serious meal anytime but especially good on cold winter days. Canning will tenderize the toughest meats and make it yummy and like you said alot more flavorful. My guess is being you market meat you could likely market canned chicken. Afterall canning is the safest form of.
I market canned good although not meat we make applebutter, jams, jellies and syrup. There is a growing demand for homestyle canned goods.
Pressure can the meat and it will come out tender. Old birds also make the most flavorful broth. You can pressure can that as well.
We have a weekend in late fall, we kill skin and pressure cook it in the evening, let it cool in the cookers overnight then cook soup and can it the next.
Yes, do know about freezer issue woes.But I am telling you, old hen soup is awesome.
I wouldn’t be able to do that I grown to love my chickens 😭 they come up and sit on my lap like how could I 😂
Another extremely done. Thank you
They make a thing called a chicken hook...super handy and reduces stress on the birds.
make your own in 5 minits
Hi sir. How many days does that 50 pound feed last for your flock?
I used to cull. Then I separated them and employed the hens to create compost for the balance of their years by scratching and picking. Best garden material ever! Multipurpose Farm stock. 🐓+ 💩+ ☘️🍃🌾🌿🥬🥦🥕🍓🌽🍅🥒🥔🍠+ 🕰= 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 ❤️.
All is one & One is all. Going to end up as dirt and shit at some point.
Perfect solution to a problem!
ya then your left feeding them all winter as the ground is frozen solid and covered in 6 feet of snow for 8 months
Arnold Romppai : Not where I live. Growing seasons for greens lasts throughout the winter. Zero feed cost.
@@cassityart7001 well that good for you, guess it is just flooding and twisters and all the other stuff you have to live with..
my dad raised pigeons when he was a kid, lets just say the dogs enjoyed the little surprises they would fine from time to time hidden around the yard
a dip net works pretty good for me to catch chickens
J.L. Freeman I was thinking the same thing when he was chasing them. 😂
I am thinking of building a chicken coop for about 4 or 5 chickens , I’m trying to weigh the expense of feeding and caring for the chickens with the benefit of fresh eggs , the question of what to do with them after they stop laying crossed my mind , I can’t get a consistent average for laying age and slaughter age for eating the chickens , everybody has different breeds , so if I may ask you a question , do you ever slaughter the laying hens before they are too old to eat ? It seems after 2 years the chicken is too old , is that correct ? Thank you for the video , I think you would be a good neighbor to have .
Yeah I’m screwed, as a new chicken flock owner(only my 2nd year in) there’s no way I could kill my chickens… I’m to much a puss
If it were up to me, Id keep them alive but Id add more younger hens to the flock. Its a bit of an additional cost but if its like 2 or 4 hens, its manageable especially since theyre pets and companions and I just gather some of the eggs for consumption while the others are for raising the next generation.
I have a migraine this morning and the two I’ve been needing to cull are confirming their impending death this morning-they are old and crotchety and won’t SHUT UP !
My mom used to butcher older free range hens for dinner. I didn’t know that the chicken meat could be tender until I ate one at a restaurant. I prefer rabbit meat from the yard over chicken any day of the week.
simple, each year you get chicks you put a colored band on there leg for that year, and when they hit 3 years old it is simple all the ones with the color band from 3 years ago, off with the head and bag um in feed bags and you have a line up of people paying you 2 bucks a bird,, only head off, i use a heave peace of wire about 4 feet long and bend a hook on one end and bend the wire so the hook rides flat on the ground, and you dont move, you move the wire hook along the ground and hook one by one by the leg just above the foot, and pull them up side down, very fast and no bending over,, old coat hangers work best, i feed a lot of them to my pigs, they love them and clean up everything
wow. i am very pleased to see all these hens. Can you pls tell the names of each breed along with its picture. why are to taking these hens out
It got pretty quiet. At the end of the video.
love the cue in country fiddle music and the use of euphemisms (ie "dispatch").....and what happened to "three strikes and your out?" I think I counted 8-10 whiffs?. Interesting video as usual for this city slicker who knows nothing about what you folks do on the farms but respects it greatly.
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I can relate Troy, I never killed a chicken in front of my little ones either, they hated finding out the rabbit never escaped either.. bad day for dads that day for sure. I never in my life ever expected this one though. I was figuring on eggs but in the chicken house but, they never laid. So when investigating some more I found out they were too cold out there. So being the kind guy dads are I penned them under my stairway up to the back of the house, it was all boxed in so tight that I had to run a coule heat lamps cause we were getting a real cold spell. Now this was only going to be a day two tops. I was working my little hobby ranch and working ten to twelve hour days in the woods (logger) and sure enough I checked on them day three, they had all the fresh water and feed so it kinda windmilled into a week. I go out and out of curiosity check them before building and to be honest, I was tired with never having even one day off. I opened the door and these are fairly social chickens and they come right up to me and I'm looking about to see how much poo that I'm going to have to pressure wash out and regretting putting them there. What I did see floored me. I gathered up a large bucket and dang near filled it collecting eggs. They were not only laying but it looked like about a two a day!!! I had eggs running out my well you know. I left things as was as the kids can gather eggs and I will tear down stairs in spring and move them to their own house again. They did finally slow down but I figured that cause the heat lamp was on they were not doing much time in their nests as they were eating well enough. I figure that is my best one so to me it was great Troy to remember old times
Actually, I don't know what happens here. How do you dispatch your chickens?
place in the cone, pull the head through the other side. one swift motion of a seriously sharp blade. leave in the cone till they stop flowing. Standing blood in the meat ruins it. Even for pigs.
Its not pretty, but its a reality of homesteading.
Why is there blood around the killing cone, I thought the idea was to snap their necks? It looks like you're cutting throats instead.
My Grandfather taught me how to do this when i was a kid many many years ago using a chopping block and an ax. Them buggers would flop around and run.
Daniel 😂😂😂 yep i chased and was chased by headless chickens.
Yep me too raised on farm and they always chased my poor brother with no head
Awww.. You should have let them finish their last meal. :(
Never kill chickens. When they stop laying eggs, just name them and keep them as pets! They are very sweet.
So so funny when you said shut up xxx
😂😂that whole process was just the best. Kept me laughing the whole time. 👍
What is NOT HUMANE about this farmer is killing these chickens thoughtlessly in front of the other chickens. If someone gathered him, his wife, his parents, his children together and a few if his neighbors and friends in the living room of his house and slowly, one at a time cut his wife's throat, bled her out, cut his son's throat, his mom's throat... bled them out and let him watch and hear it he would claim it doesn't upset him. He would be a liar to say it didn't upset him. So -
As a murderer, do every animal a solid courtesy since they are being killed and take one at a time into a closed off area, where no other animals can witness this Natzi-like beheading of Biblical proportions and have dignity for the creature and their years of prior service of eggs to you and your family. Be a higher quality of human being. Do you have a responsibility to be a better person?
This was you're most entertaining video!
Thanks!
My chickens are my friends.
sticks are very useful when desiring not to chase chickens.
maybe not catching chickens when attempting was the desired result. IDK
Thank you for the valuable information. I hope you have a fantastic day.
RUclips and city folks, somehow, know what's best for you, with all their vast worldly experience.
Don't have much worldly experience. Been a country boy all my life.
Don’t do it chickens, it’s a trap! 😂
You can see the other birds staunching the ones getting caged.
He make the others watch the processing so all that cortisol is released right before their last breath. I would not eat those chickens as the effects of cortisol / stress hormones can be seen on the farmer’s stomach. You become what you eat.
Allowing sows to eat meat/blood meal will also help prevent a sow from eating their piglets if they have any. There was an old man around here that would go periodically to the sale barn and buy an old mule or horse that was destined for the glue factory and he would buy it, take it out to the hog lot and dispatch it, word of the day I guess, and let the hogs have at it... not a tooth or hair left in the lot in short time.
Interesting. They clean up the deer carcasses pretty well around here during deer season. Bones and all.
Yep, thus the comment of not a tooth or hair left...a lot of people don't realize swine like meat and vegetables too.. ha
Get you a long handled fish dip net for chicken catching !!! Much easier !!!
A guy I worked with told me when his chickens would not lay eggs he would put out a KFC bucket in the hen house. Funny he never really said how well that worked.
Try a fishing net. That’s what we use
Yeah that's the same thing I do I'd fix it fast colored zip ties that's exactly what I do
They are still chickens past their last day....chickens adobo, fried chickens, chickens soup, chickens salad...etc
You need a .22
You've caught chickens before!
yep much easier with a stick or the like. as far as I can remember I was taught to use a stick for a rushing rooster when I was younger....and when I got my own chicks I went straight to the stick method as soon as they gave me the chicken shuffle when trying to catch them.
Course at least 1 would usually go straight to me...she was a leader and like to be held and around me.
Where's the video of the pigs eating the chickens? As a farm lady - I WANNA SEE THAT!
always be wary of a man who keep a pig farm
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I would let them stay without laying because they provide for a long time so it would be cruel to kill something that has fed you for 5 years plus
Troy, great topic could you imagine having a 20 year-old chicken for a pet, Lol thanks for sharing!
Not around here! Nothing lives that long on our farm.
Red Tool House - Homestead have you earned your boys about that rule??
Too bad you didn't catch the blood for the garden.
Pressure cook the meat
Just the hens off the roost at night! That’s what I do.
Freezer Camp™
An easy way to catch them is with a fish net.
Soup kitchen
I wanted to see the hogs eat.
Ooh, that isn't a pretty site. I would definitely get the RUclips black eye for that one.
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"How we deal with chickens that have stopped laying eggs?". We kill them.
Lol......dont do it its a trap...... lol.....
12 minutes of you talking. You could have shown what to do in 3 minutes.
Not happy with this video.
😢
OMG how could you kill such beautiful hens....
With an axe.
Amateur raiser & wrangler, birds scream when caught and you feel a need to choke them out to get them under control. Respect the animals you are working with, Red "Fool" House - Homestead .
Show me a chicken that doesn't make noise when grabbed and I will show you a pet. We don't raise pets. We have a farm.
Chicken chokers are amateurs - Sorry! Your views will stay low forever, which is fine by me! You've proven to be not much smarter than your chickens just by watching you try to catch them........ Cheers!
Tyler Ellingson ah, the comments of the armchair RUclipsr. Good luck with your future criticisms of other people’s work!
@@CopterRofl Since you're so skilled and knowledgeable, perhaps you should make your own channel and show us how its done! Cheers!
@@jeff_desir No need, there's a plethora already on RUclips. Justin Rhodes is a perfect example, & somebody who does it on a larger scale.
Inhumane stuff