On Tuesday we harvested one of the new big black cockerels as well as our older white one. The black one was dead-weight of 6 lbs 1 oz (2.75kg) -- this is the biggest by far! Looking back through the blog, I see that the last time I went on about how amazingly big a cockerel was, it was one that was only 1.6kg -- not even on the same planet really!
Just to give you a better sense of scale as no bananas here, here's the brother of the one we harvested along with some hens -- truly massive...
The white one was pretty impressive as well at 4 lbs 8 oz (2kg). Fingers crossed for giant chicks next year!
And of course, the thing that makes all the horribleness of harvesting chickens worthwhile -- the most yummy chicken dinner ever!
1. Again, for scale, this is a normal sized dinner plate -- about 10 inches in diameter -- and that drumstick barely fits on it!
2. I am particularly pleased with this dinner as nearly everything on the plate is something that we had a hand in producing. Bought in items involved in dinner prep: salt & pepper, butter, garlic, white wine. Everything else is ours!
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