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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: deepinthewoods on January 29, 2012, 05:25:29 pm

Title: heaviest dressed chicken
Post by: deepinthewoods on January 29, 2012, 05:25:29 pm: so whats the heaviest bird youve raised? and what breed?
so far mine is about 8lb.
Title: Re: heaviest dressed chicken
Post by: chrismahon on January 29, 2012, 05:56:32 pm: Orpington, when dressed felt about the same weight, 8lbs.
Title: Re: heaviest dressed chicken
Post by: manian on January 29, 2012, 06:00:38 pm: our first table birds went longer than we wantewd cos it would have been our first culling :o
they weighed in at 11 - 11lb 7 oz (well 3 of them did - someone opened the door and the fox killed the rest ::))
they were ross/cobb
Mx
Title: Re: heaviest dressed chicken
Post by: Dizzycow on January 29, 2012, 10:21:56 pm: Deepinthewoods, I wish you lived closer to me, I need a hand with the culling as I'm a monumentally big girl's blouse. FIVE cockerels. FIVE. They'd be far more economically viable in my freezer than scoffing buckets of corn on a daily basis.
Title: Re: heaviest dressed chicken
Post by: lill on January 31, 2012, 02:53:07 pm: A turkey, dead weight is 13.545 kilos, too big to go in the oven the way it is, it will need to get the legs cut off it, It was a bugger to carry to the dispatching shed. :turkey: :turkey: :yum: :yum: :yum:
Title: Re: heaviest dressed chicken
Post by: daddymatty82 on February 02, 2012, 11:45:05 pm: where you from dizzy? heaviest chooks this last year were 18lb ish dressed they were raised at a friends yard and he fed them for me i just bought the day olds cant remember age tbh. that has been the heaviest.
Title: Re: heaviest dressed chicken
Post by: Dizzycow on February 03, 2012, 11:22:30 pm: Lill, you're a demon turkey despatcher/plucker/drawer etc etc!

Daddymatty, I'm far, far away, unfortunately, so you can't come and deal with all the cockerels unless you're passing nearby Dunfermline on a holiday to Scotland, which quite frankly, you should. I have a ridiculous number of the unproductive, greedy male bastards, which really ought to be in the freezer. Siggghhh.
Title: Re: heaviest dressed chicken
Post by: DJ_Chook on February 04, 2012, 10:11:23 am: Quote from: daddymatty82 on February 02, 2012, 11:45:05 pm
...heaviest chooks this last year were 18lb ish dressed they were raised at a friends yard ..

I've had cobb/ross weigh in that heavy too. So big they needed the legs taking off to fit in the oven. Though, with that breed I don't get many able to make it to 16-20weeks old in order to reach that weight.
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Post by: daddymatty82 on February 04, 2012, 05:30:20 pm: Quote from: Dizzycow on February 03, 2012, 11:22:30 pm
Lill, you're a demon turkey despatcher/plucker/drawer etc etc!

Daddymatty, I'm far, far away, unfortunately, so you can't come and deal with all the cockerels unless you're passing nearby Dunfermline on a holiday to Scotland, which quite frankly, you should. I have a ridiculous number of the unproductive, greedy male bastards, which really ought to be in the freezer. Siggghhh.
free holiday ? lol ::)
Title: Re: heaviest dressed chicken
Post by: Dizzycow on February 04, 2012, 05:39:18 pm: Only if you're prepared to bunk up with the chickens! ;D
Title: Re: heaviest dressed chicken
Post by: JEP on February 09, 2012, 07:59:59 pm: large turkey at Christmas 36lb ready for oven
he was cut in half then cooked