We are currently eating our own pork, bacon and lamb and soon will have a freezer full of beef as well. Plus we rear our own turkeys for Christmas and are happy to despatch a duck every so often for a treat.
The only meat that we eat and don't produce is chicken - I always try to buy free-range; but would like to shift to producing our own but my partner thinks it would be too much like hard work. I want to give it a try nonetheless, as I think meat chickens often get a raw deal and ours would have a lovely, carefree, happy, free-range life until they were killed.
What breeds would you recommend for the table, what age should I buy them (no incubater here) and what age should we expect to kill them?
Thanks!