A few years ago we grew some of the slow growning red birds -much like the French Label Rouge poultry – but had a lot of trouble processing them and didn’t really like the preponderance of dark meat. Now we have a pen of 2 week old slow growing poultry out on pasture . These are a mostly white feathered version that we think will be more “pickable” in processing as well as provide more white meat. They are currently on the “local” pasture and we plan to move them this week to the “real” farm. That being a 22 acre spot just few miles from our home. Hopefully they will join the current roll call of turkeys, goats and cows. The processing dates for all these is:
Chickens: 3 dates from these 9/20, 9/27, 10/4, or 10/11
Cows: Processed the week of 10/27 then pickup around 11/12
Turkeys: The week of Thanksgiving – probably Tuesday