Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
When I was a kid, my grandmother used to raise meat chickens, a couple rounds of plucking cleaning and cutting up a thousand of those nasty things was enough to swear me off chicken for a long time.
She made the best tasting fried chicken in the country but to me it still tasted like chicken. I don't mind slaughtering a hog or beef or just about any other animal then processing it and cooking it as long as it doesn't have feathers
We didn't keep thousands, But I despatched hundreds. And I agree that chickens have to be the dirtiest little animals I have ever worked with. Nasty little things actually. But a well fed meat chicken can be tasty. We kept ours eating all the normal outside farm stuff even though I only have 7 acres. Most of which is forest. Pigs were much cleaner. Both taste much better than store bought. But they cost more than store bought as well. Kind of messed up if you think it through. And we bought feed corn from a local farmer and potatoes and soybeans that I cooked for the pigs and chickens. They ate well so I would eat well.