Raise Chickens As a Food Source

For many years, people raised chickens for their eggs, and meat, and feathers, because back then that was a source of money, food and barter.
There are still many people, which still raise chickens for food; chickens produce eggs and meat to eat.
Chicken is a good meal that can either be cooked by it self, or mixed with rice, to make chicken and rice.
You can also make chicken salad with chickens.
In addition, the chicken's eggs can be, used during breakfast; you may collect the chicken's eggs on a daily basis.
However, be sure that you first put on a pair of gloves preferably welding gloves.
Welding gloves will keep you from being peck by the mother hen.
If you leave her at least one egg every time she will not peck you.
In order for a chicken to be, used as a food source you will need a large enclosure for your chickens and roasters to stay in to keep them from being, eaten by predators.
Skunks, Raccoons, and possum will eat chickens, roaster and baby chicks.
Moreover, if you notice that one of your hens is eating its young, do not worry she is not eating the actually chick.
She is actually keeping the nest clean so no predators come snooping around to eat her baby chicks, or eggs.
This is an instinct that many animals are breed with, it does not mean something is wrong with your hen.
In addition, you will want to put metal traps around the chicken pen, because if you do not the skunks and raccoons will dig holes underneath the chicken pen and get to your fowl.
In addition, you must pick the traps up every morning to let your chickens out, or use live traps.
Therefore, you will need to buy you a 22 if you do not already own one.
Chicken can be, cooked many different ways depending on how you like to eat it; you can fry it, boil it, and bake chicken.
You can make grandma favorite casserole, and soups.
In addition, eggs could be fried, scrambled, sunny side up, pouched or boiled.
In order to eat the chicken you must first kill the chicken, humanly.
Then remove the feathers, and then you need to skin it, or you can leave the skin on it, for many people desire to eat the skin as well.
Then you will have to remove the insides, after that you can either cut it up, or throw the whole chicken in a big pan to be boiled.