Chickens and Chicken Butchery

Before you proceed, you might want to fuck off, as this post concerns animal butchery, and contains imagery of dead animals, innards, and blood. You were warned. This does not go against the site "rules".  

Yesterday 3 of the young roosters that were hatched in April were released from their mortal coils in a humane way (A quick snap of the neck).  Why were they killed? If you know anything about chickens, you will know that keeping roosters together will end up in territorial fighting and often they will kill eachother.  I stopped this before they reached full maturity, so that I can feed myself. This is how our ancestors lived, and how I prefer to live on my path to greater and greater self-sustainability. Please note that they had extremely good lives before they were killed, they free-roamed, they ate good food, ate insects, ate dried mealworms, and were healthy and happy.  

Rooster 1 - Plucked and ready

Post-processing of the 3 roosters. Feet are saved, boiled, and ground up to provide collagen rich feeding supplementals for my cats, especially the elderly cat, Gibson. 

the 3 cleaned and processed birds, resting in ice water before being bagged and frozen.

Maggot farm.  Unusable innards are put into the HH bucket. There's a tube for flies to get in, lay eggs, and leave. The eggs of course turn into maggots, and the maggots exit the same tube, feeding the hungry chickens who will be waiting below. No part goes to waste!

Elderly cat, Gibson, wasn't quite interested in the livers.