How do you part with your cockerels

[hammers]

Wait until the chicks are around 6 weeks old and the difference is easy to spot. The males will have a bigger comb and usually different colouring on the neck feathers. Leave them to grow and about a month before you want them for the pot, get them in somewhere and give them poultry corn to put a bit of fat on them.
I just stretch their necks, skin them, as I cannot be bothered to pluck, and use them in stews and pies.

They taste how chickens used to taste - of chicken!

I think it's getting a positive response. Will wait more.

 

[Foxcover]

Surgical caponising

How and Why to Caponize Backyard Chickens and How Caponizing is Done

What does to caponize mean? Caponizing is the neutering chickens to make your backyard chickens fatter and more tender when slaughtered. See how.

www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com

 

[unlacedgecko]

 

[primmiemoo]

Are the above methods legal in GB?

 

[Tomr10]

We have some Chinese guy who bought all the cockerel when we hatched some.

 

[farmerm]

got a lot of bantam cocks, probably need to cull at least 10 not convinced there is enough meat on them to faff about preparing them when a family sized bird costs just a fiver...

 

[Foxcover]

Are the above methods legal in GB?

Good question, probably not

 

[unlacedgecko]

Are the above methods legal in GB?

No.

There is no legal method of caponising in the U.K.

 

[Pasty]

Are the above methods legal in GB?

\no

 

[Pasty]

If you can't dispatch, don't hatch. Simple as (some people are).

 

[farmerm]

If you can't dispatch, don't hatch. Simple as (some people are).

Can you explain that to my wife