Are any of you chicken keepers also chicken eaters?

[Hathor]

Do you keep them just for the eggs / as pets, or do you keep them for eating? Just curious.

eggs/ hens are also pets. boys are eaters

we do eggs and if I was allowed at least 6 of the damn boys would be in the freezer!!!! (If they wake me up fighting one more time...)

ours are just productive pets, we just never really eat chicken, maybe once a year at most.

have a few in the freezer but won't be hatching this year with impending baby and housemove. The ones we eat though are a different set to my layers who all have names and are more pet like

But does keeping chickens put you off eating chicken full stop?

Just for eggs. I do eat chicken, and it is only free-range these days, but not my chicken. Having a chicken hasn't put me off eating chicken at all. They're nice and all, but not so nice that I couldn't bear to eat one .

Oh good!

I don't eat my own (they're pekin bantams, not so much as a nugget between them! ) but I do eat chicken. I am more picky now, though, and will only buy free range whole birds, and ready meals are out.

No, I keep chickens, couldn't eat them or any other though!

Keep hens and eat their eggs. Will get dh to neck the cockerels when they get to 5 months for the freezer (he doesn't know this yet but probably suspects)

have been told the quickest way to neck the chickens is with a broom handle , my friend has been doing this to her ill chickens.

make sure you leave them to hang for a week with thier heads on . less mess and better flavour.

Hanging in warm weather?

covered in netting or something similar to stop flies - and somewhere cold ideally

We have had a few surplus cocks who have gone to the chicken coop in the sky! We ate one last night in fact and he was delicious! I always ask one of my husbands friends to come and sort them out for me though, but am considering getting another coop especially for meat birds and learning how to do it myself.

ours hung in our garage for a week but it was winter.