I am now cooking a huge chicken, it weighs a little over 8 lbs.

[texanwitch]

It looks like a small turkey, it is almost done.

The smell is nice.

I didn't know chickens came that big.

[Kajsa]

1. That's a big chicken!

8 lbs.?

Are you sure it's a chicken?

It sounds like a chicken and a turkey had
some hanky-panky going on.

:evilgrin:

[Deja Q]

5. The factor stated was pounds, not inches...

:yoiks:

[texanwitch]

7. Could be.

This chicken is smelling good.

I didn't want to cook it tomorrow.

[pitohui]

2. those superchickens are something else, aren't they?

the leftovers are good eating too

[texanwitch]

8. Lots of leftovers.

I will be eating chicken for a week.

[Suich]

3. My niece and her husband have some friends who are farmers

and they get chickens from them all the time...they're HUGH!

:hi:

[texanwitch]

4. This wasn't the biggest chicken at the store.

The biggest one was over 9 lbs.

I will be eating chicken for a long time.

[Left Is Write]

6. That's definitely a big chicken!

Enjoy. :)

[texanwitch]

9. Wish I could share the smell.

It should be done in about 20 minutes.

[SPKrazy]

10. That's A Yard Bird!

a big one

either that or it is steroid supersized!


I'm guessing it is not a mass grown chicken

:shrug:

[Kajsa]

11. Hey Southpaw,

Good to see ya--

I think a chicken and a turkey got wild
one night- No steroids for the poor chickens!

What in the hell is a 'Yard Bird"?
I know I'm out of the sanctuary of the LLC,
but this is Texanwitch's thread so it's OK.

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

16. A Yard Bird?

is a chicken that lives in someone's yard or on their farm

also the name of a band in the 60's

:rofl:

[Kajsa]

18. I knew that!

Oh, again I say,

What am I gonna do with you?

:rofl:

[youthere]

31. We raise organic chickens and ...

some of ours get bigger than that. I've had some cornish rock chickens top out at 12 lbs at butcher time.

[texanwitch]

12. No, this chicken is free range.

It wasn't cheap.

I don't trust the chickens that have been in cages, poor things.

[Kajsa]

13. Good for you!

I buy free range eggs at Trader Joes.
Once in a while they have them at Costco's.

You just know there having a lot more fun
running around in the open and the eggs
taste better.

:thumbsup:

[pitohui]

14. there are mass produced superchickens but i'm not sure of availability

i'm not sure how many have yet found their way into the stores though but my husband has worked with some on some project

it's a variety, they can be free range or not free range, depending on the supplier, but the size is actually caused by breeding/genetics

[SPKrazy]

15. Ironically

initially free range birds are more succeptible to avian influenza

of course once it gets into the chicken population, the caged birds are much more endangered.

There are lots of reasons to want free range over caged, as caged are given steroids and antibiotics, etc.

If there is, no, when there is an outbreak of avian influenza among birds in this country it will come from migratory birds, to free range, to caged birds.

Sad.

If it gets into the human population it will follow a similar course, rural areas first, then hit the urban crowded areas the hardest.

[pitohui]

17. "trust" is probably not an avian flu issue

free range chickens are in theory indeed more susceptible to flu but this shouldn't affect the end user

i suspect "trust" is more an issue of she feels more satisfied with the bird's diet than if it were cage bred

some people feel free range taste better because they get more natural insects and sunlight, i am not sure i can taste it in the meat, but i can see and taste it in the free range eggs -- they are clearly better tasting, darker yolks with more vit. a/carotene (can't remember which any more but you get the idea)

[texanwitch]

19. My grandparents were farmers so I know what free range eggs taste like.

My grandmother made great chicken noodle soup, with a fresh killed chicken.

That was some great soup.

[SPKrazy]

20. Killing And Fixing A Fresh Chicken

is a treat

:shrug:

[texanwitch]

22. I killed my share of chickens on the farm.

I had to take care of the chickens, so I was not that in love with them.

Chickens can be mean.

The eggs don'e always come out clean, I clean many eggs.

[texanwitch]

23. The taste is so different.

Fresh chicken tastes better.

Also knowing what the history of the chicken.

[trof]

27. Oh yeah. "Granny" eggs!

My late mother-in-law had a chicken coop on her little farm in Texas. Those eggs were the BEST!

The yolks were a deep orange.
The crap you get in large grocery stores has pale pastel yolks and no flavor.

I need to find some place I can get yard eggs.

[texanwitch]

21. We are between a rock and hard place today dealing with food.

I stopped buying factory chickens when a friends little girl started to grow hair where she shouldn't.

This little girl was 6 years old.

There seems to be a problem with this so I just cut back on chicken and when I do eat chicken it free range.

[SPKrazy]

24. That's Sound Advice Really

I wonder more and more about vegetarianism for myself.

:shrug:

[texanwitch]

25. I am heading that way myself.

I think about what is in the meat now.

[China_cat]

26. Chicken or capon?

[Deja Q]

30. If it's a capon, is it Super Chicken?

:yoiks:

[China_cat]

32. I rather doubt it.

Capon: A male chicken castrated when young to improve the quality of its flesh for food.

They're also allowed to grow for double the normal life of a regular chicken.

[Deja Q]

34. YEEEEOOOOOWWWW!

:wow:

Poor capon... maybe they should have called it, "capoff"...
:yoiks:

[BreweryYardRat]

35. Thank you, I've been wondering about the definition of that for a while.

The word cropped up in a book I read, as part of a taunt. No definition was provided.

[BreweryYardRat]

36. *triple, delete*

[BreweryYardRat]

37. triple, don't bother reading

[trof]

28. What's a 'henway'? old joke

[Rhythm]

29. 8 lbs is a good 'roaster' size...

"Roasters" are just chickens that are roughly 12 weeks old
They're also usually injected with broth to keep them tender, but that adds to the weight.
The average 'fryer' chicken is only about 6-7 weeks.

I worked in a Wampler/Pilgrim's Pride poultry processing plant for a while in Virginia (a job i hated with a passion, but it paid the bills), and after some bad weather events, we would get birds brought in from growers that were even 9 weeks, and they barely fit in the machines (the ones we used to cut-up, or to debone).

[sakabatou]

33. O_O

Franken-chicken!