Chickens lay more or fewer eggs based on time of year and chicken's age.
Our three year old flock was approaching 0 eggs/day recently.
...so @LibertyFarmNH grabbed the chickens one by one, and I swung the hatchet, one by one.
Grabbed a cardboard box and piled the carcasses in.
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well, old girl Cricket loves catching, killing, and eating rats. And when she can't find a rat ... a chicken carcass is almost as good. So she climbed up the 6' tall mountain of compost, it seems, and started fishing out chicken carcasses.
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Just watched her walk into the house with a chicken leg / foot in her mouth, and then eat it with all the speed and the ease of an 8 year old boy gulping down a Twizzler. Dog teeth and dog jaw power are scary AF.
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Why not cook the chickens?
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When my dad was a baby he became very ill. Grandma followed Yiddish tradition and slung a chicken around his head to catch his sins. It worked, dad recovered. Then what did they do with the chicken? As did all poor families, they ate it.
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3/ Great question! Chickens are either "meat" breeds, "egg" breeds, or dual purpose. (a) these are egg breads - skinny and not much meat (b) they are OLD - tough. (c) plucking and gutting is a big old hassle and takes hourshttps://twitter.com/JASutherlandBks/status/1206707060718653440 …
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You know you pressure cook an old chicken like that and they make great soup
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yep, could do ...but there's a lot of other stuff that needs doing a few hours of labor and heating up the plucking bath and firing up the plucking machine in cold weather ... nah
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