meat chicks are coming!!

R66VEY · « **on:** July 22, 2008, 21:59 »

ordered my day old hubbards from simon last friday and there coming 1st of august ,recomend him to everyone .very nice man !!

Kate and her Ducks · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2008, 22:08 »

Always good to hear about the good guys.

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #2 on:** July 22, 2008, 22:20 »

You won't regret it R66vey, they are lovely chickens, in fact I cooked one today. It was supposed to be for tomorrow, but as we had to cancel Babe and Mumsy's visit, I cooked it today, then tomorrow I'll take all the meat off it and freeze some. Dead weight it was 10lb, but about 8lb over ready.

And yes, I would recommend Simon to anyone. When you think that he hatches literally thousands of chicks almost every day, yet to talk to him you'd think those few chickens you've ordered from him were his only order!!!! He's a really nice man! And very passionate about his work!

kimT · « **Reply #3 on:** July 22, 2008, 22:31 »

That’s fantastic and you won't be disappointed we have our second lot coming on Aug 7th!!

Simon is delightful.

Boxfanman · « **Reply #4 on:** July 22, 2008, 22:32 »

My neighbour does this, he has 9 chickens nearly ready for slaughter. He takes them to a processing plant and pays 2.50 per bird. His birds are huge, they are bigger than my pol hens, and are a month younger!

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #5 on:** July 22, 2008, 22:41 »

I've often wondered how much the processing plants charge for killing, thanks Boxfanman!!!! And yes, they do look big don't they? our meat chickens were 4 weeks older than our Babcocks, but to look at them, you'd think they were months older!!!

kimT · « **Reply #6 on:** July 22, 2008, 22:48 »

We were charged £2.40 per bird.

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #7 on:** July 22, 2008, 22:54 »

I should think myself lucky then that Brian is a licensed poultry slaughterman!!!!! or that would put another £2.40 on each bird!!!

SnooziSuzi · « **Reply #8 on:** July 22, 2008, 23:09 »

Grannie, out of interest how much do you charge for yours 'oven ready'?

I have a yearning to start a chook farm of my own but I'm not experienced enough yet however Tesco are selling their free rangers for between £8-£9 each!!!

I haven't yet done the lifecycle calculations re cost vs returns, and frankly I wouldn't care if I didn't make much profit if any, I'd be happy knowing there were happy birds on peoples plates not the poor things that they currently are supplied :cry:

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #9 on:** July 22, 2008, 23:17 »

Hi Suzi, the first ones were fairly small 2-3kgs, so we started selling them for £6, they probably cost us around £4.00 at that time to raise, then it takes time to kill pluck gut etc.

But they kept getting bigger! the biggest one is 11lb dead weight, and they were older so had eaten more, so I thought I've got to have a system, so I started saying to people they are £1 a lb dead weight, but Brian forgot to put the dead weight on the bags, only the oven ready weight, so I'm going to start saying £1.50 a lb oven ready weight which is about £3.30 a kg, whereas the last time I looked in the supermarkets, they were about £4.60 a kg, so a better tasting bird a lot cheaper!!

The last one Rob & Julie had, they reckoned they got 12 portions out of it!

And it looks better if I spell check before I click on submit!!!! lol

SnooziSuzi · « **Reply #10 on:** July 22, 2008, 23:25 »

Thanks Grannie!

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #11 on:** July 22, 2008, 23:30 »

YW!!!!!

Boxfanman · « **Reply #12 on:** July 22, 2008, 23:53 »

Quote from: "GrannieAnnie"

Hi Suzi, the first ones were fairly small 2-3kgs, so we started selling them for £6, they probably cost us around £4.00 at that time to raise, then it takes time to kill pluck gut etc.

But they kept getting bigger! the biggest one is 11lb dead weight, and they were older so had eaten more, so I thought I've got to have a system, so I started saying to people they are £1 a lb dead weight, but Brian forgot to put the dead weight on the bags, only the oven ready weight, so I'm going to start saying £1.50 a lb oven ready weight which is about £3.30 a kg, whereas the last time I looked in the supermarkets, they were about £4.60 a kg, so a better tasting bird a lot cheaper!!

The last one Rob & Julie had, they reckoned they got 12 portions out of it!

And it looks better if I spell check before I click on submit!!!! lol

Selling at £3.30 per kilo you are doing yourself down. I would by chicken if it was that cheap, but supermarkets are £7-8 per kilo for Free Range birds...

Oliveview · « **Reply #13 on:** July 23, 2008, 08:08 »

Our neighbour charges 6€ a kilo for 9 month old cockerals- about 4.50 pounds?
Pamela

kimT · « **Reply #14 on:** July 23, 2008, 09:01 »

In the supermarkets an average price across three of them for Free range chickens is approx £5 per Kilo.

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