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Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl
Do you cull yourself or take to a butcher? I've been thinking about doing it for over a year, but I couldn't cull them myself.
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I thought about doing the culling myself. But I'd want to build/buy a plucker to do it. There's a place nearby that does it for $3 a bird, which I think is more than fair. I pick them up loose in bags of 3 and then do the rest of the butchering myself before vacuum sealing them.
I keep a few whole (minus the wings since I take them off all of the birds), the rest, I remove necks and backbones for stock and either keep them halved or quartered. They are big, so half usually does dinner for 3 and lunch the next day with some left over. I think I calculated the total cost per bird at around $13-15 (day old chicks/feed/Processing)