"Christina Websell" wrote in
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Well, you can use them for the table but there will be nothing much in
the way of meat on them. Chickens that are bred for eggs and those
who are bred for meat are totally different these days.

Your old hens, if you get fed up with them not laying as much as you
want, can be used to make nice stock for soup.
Myself, I just let them "geriatric around" when they get old, giving
me the occasional egg, but I have room for that without it making a
difference about getting some young ones.

Tina




I suppose that they would have to be killed eventually then whwn they have
served the purpose of laying eggs for us.
Sounds bad I know, but we have no room for them when they have finished
being productive.
Cant imagine how to find the justification to kill them whan the time
comes. It will not be easy and we might go back to buying our eggs from
local smallholders.
Boiling them to get some stock is not an option because I beleive the
carcas contains very high colesterol in the bone marrow, and even so to
pluck, draw and present a skinny thing like that would turn me off chicken
for life, and would be time consuming for so little reward.

Baz