Pastured Poultry Harvest
Whew! 12 7-8 week old cornish cross broilers in the freezer! That’s 57.50 pounds of homestead pasture-raised (no antibiotics, and no ‘fecal soup’*see note below) healthy chicken! Affectionately known as “pastured poultry”. The average weight was 4.79# The biggest was 6.1 (the 8 wk old rooster) and the smallest was 4.0 # (due to the skin getting pulled off from over-scalding ). All in all a good harvest. Very grateful! *Did you know that commercially processed chicken is dunked in a fecal (poop) soup many times before it is packaged? Yep! Read on: Inside Joel Salatin’s Pastured Poultry Profits this interesting little insight into the processing of the meat itself: “Mechanical evisceration breaks open intestines and pours fecal material over the carcass, inside the body cavity, and contaminnates the birds. Large chill tanks often have several inches of fecal sludge in the bottom. In fact, about 9 percent of the…
