We decided that today was a free Saturday, on which we could process a couple of our roosters. We decided to leave one, just in case we wanted to hatch chicks later down the road.
Upon processing the first rooster, we noticed something in the guts that looked like a broken egg yolk. But, since this was the first time we'd done this, I discounted it as some unrecognizable chicken-part. Then we went to get the other rooster.
Behold, there was an egg in the pen.
Oooops.
"Well, she just saved her life!" we exclaimed as we sheepishly put her back in the tractor with the other seven hens. I'm thinking now that the other one we thought was a rooster is probably a hen, too.
No wonder no one was crowing, yet... and it looks like we have a laying flock of eight, instead of six. Those "ambitious pullets" that I talked about in my last post?
Apparently, those were our "roosters," one of whom we will be having for dinner tonight. Ah, the lessons of a novice chicken farmer.
P.S. This YouTube video is a great resource for processing chickens, just in case anyone else is as new to this as we are.
Upon processing the first rooster, we noticed something in the guts that looked like a broken egg yolk. But, since this was the first time we'd done this, I discounted it as some unrecognizable chicken-part. Then we went to get the other rooster.
Behold, there was an egg in the pen.
Oooops.
"Well, she just saved her life!" we exclaimed as we sheepishly put her back in the tractor with the other seven hens. I'm thinking now that the other one we thought was a rooster is probably a hen, too.
No wonder no one was crowing, yet... and it looks like we have a laying flock of eight, instead of six. Those "ambitious pullets" that I talked about in my last post?
Apparently, those were our "roosters," one of whom we will be having for dinner tonight. Ah, the lessons of a novice chicken farmer.
P.S. This YouTube video is a great resource for processing chickens, just in case anyone else is as new to this as we are.
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