CHICKEN FRIDAY !!!!!!!!

[freelance 448]

Today was chicken friday, my mate goes to the abattoir for me and pics up boxes of chicken backs at £3 a box. Not sure of the exact weight of the box but there fairly heavy and you sure get your three quids worth. Along with the chicken we add raw veg and mince it all up, obviously throughout the season rabbits and all game get put through as well to give the runners a balanced and varied diet.

 

The mincing room/dog/man shed LOL

 

 

The boxes of chicken backs.

 

 

Chopped up and going through the mincer with a few veg.

 

 

 

Four boxes done.

 

 

And in the freezer.

 

 

Its a pocket friendly way of feeding the mutts, and you know whats going in them. I sometimes dont mince all the backs as i keep some back whole as i think it does there teeth good to crunch whole carcasses up as well. Cheers Atb

[long dogs 580]

how much are those mincers bud.

[freelance 448]

how much are those mincers bud.

Bought mine second hand off fleabay it didn't make its reserve so i mailed him an offer, i think i paid about sixty quid or there abouts. It was a bargain at that . Although i did rewire it and give it a lick of paint Cheers Atb

[long dogs 580]

thanks bud,i got out bid on one few weeks ago

[The one 8,504]

That's what i do as well , there's thirteen kilo in those boxes and now im paying 0.67 pence a kilo or £8.71 a box and im supposed to get a discount

[long dogs 580]

That's what i do as well , there's thirteen kilo in those boxes and now im paying 0.67 pence a kilo or £8.71 a box and im supposed to get a discount

is that deliverd or you fetch it bud

[The one 8,504]

I fetch it mate , had a guy phone up and ask prices at two places and they where quoted pence and 85 pence a kilo so maybe i am getting a wee bit of a discount . i could open a account and get it delivered but then im paying 85 pence a kilo

[gnipper 6,531]

The place I was getting my carcasses from has put the price up for a 12 kilo box to 5 quid , it was a quid when I first got them a few years back and they said they only charged for the packaging. I knew I shouldn't have told others about the place. I'm gonna go down the full chicken route next with culls from my mates farm but it will be a lot messier.

[patterdalejoel 669]

The place I was getting my carcasses from has put the price up for a 12 kilo box to 5 quid , it was a quid when I first got them a few years back and they said they only charged for the packaging. I knew I shouldn't have told others about the place. I'm gonna go down the full chicken route next with culls from my mates farm but it will be a lot messier.

my dog will wolf down butchers chicken, but if i kill and dress a chicken myself she wont touch it, its strange. are you going to gut and pluck then feed or feed whole guts and everything?

[mikeball 108]

I get them boxes of chicken carcasses for 3.50 from my local butcher he orders them in for me :-) I think there great I don't mince them tho I just feed whole. My dogs love them atb mike

[gnipper 6,531]

The place I was getting my carcasses from has put the price up for a 12 kilo box to 5 quid , it was a quid when I first got them a few years back and they said they only charged for the packaging. I knew I shouldn't have told others about the place. I'm gonna go down the full chicken route next with culls from my mates farm but it will be a lot messier.

my dog will wolf down butchers chicken, but if i kill and dress a chicken myself she wont touch it, its strange. are you going to gut and pluck then feed or feed whole guts and everything?

Are the chickens your butchering game types mate? If so eat one yourself and you'll taste the difference too. I was planning on skinning and halving them, take the guts out but try and leave the organs but it all depends what size the chicks get culled at really. He would do them as and when for me though.

[hutch6 550]

I get 30Kg of chicken carcasses ( a few bags of wings out of them too) for £15. It's a nice drive over and I pass loads of farms etc so going to get some flyers printed upo and do some door knocking with lots of land changign hands that way recently.

 

If you mince it up then the dog's teeth suffer as there is no cleaning going on and the mince can get stuck below the gum line easier meaning it's just as bad as kibble for destroying your dog's gob. It's not so bad if you are out in the field with the bags of mince etc but try and feed the backs whole as much as you can. You can mince the veg up as that helps to break it down so the dog can absorb what it needs easier.

[patterdalejoel 669]

The place I was getting my carcasses from has put the price up for a 12 kilo box to 5 quid , it was a quid when I first got them a few years back and they said they only charged for the packaging. I knew I shouldn't have told others about the place. I'm gonna go down the full chicken route next with culls from my mates farm but it will be a lot messier.

my dog will wolf down butchers chicken, but if i kill and dress a chicken myself she wont touch it, its strange. are you going to gut and pluck then feed or feed whole guts and everything?

Are the chickens your butchering game types mate? If so eat one yourself and you'll taste the difference too. I was planning on skinning and halving them, take the guts out but try and leave the organs but it all depends what size the chicks get culled at really. He would do them as and when for me though.

they are just normal hens, egg layers, spare cocks etc, but are more gamey in flavour as they free ranged and ate corn etc unlike broilers. but i dont understand why the game flavour would put her off. but saying that, she isnt too keen on rabbit unless she is very hungry. strange.