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How do you part with your cockerels

hammers

New Member
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.
 

farmerm

Member
Location
Shropshire
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... :unsure:
 

How is your SFI 24 application progressing?

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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