One thing about chickens... if you let them lay eggs and breed indiscriminately, you get a lot of roosters. A modest chicken farm doesn't need a lot of roosters. Of the eggs we have incubated, 70% have been roosters. Our friend has chickens on her property, and most of them are.. you guessed it.. roosters! We prefer to eat our young Jumbo Cross Rock Chickens than roosters, but our dogs are not as particular! Dress a rooster and throw it in the pressure cooker, debone it, and it becomes the protein in a big batch of dog food for our 4 big hounds. The hard part is catching and butchering the roos. Well, we went to our friend's this am, and she had closed up the coop after dinner last night and managed to catch 7 roosters and 3 hens in the coop. We rounded them up, and now have three new hens in with Speckle, and 7 roosters in our freezer.
Dog Food recipe:
3 lbs of ground grass-fed beef, boiled or 1 rooster, stewed or 2 lbs of organ meat, stewed and chopped
1 big bunch of greens, preferably kale or collards, but any will do, chopped and steamed
7 cups cooked brown rice
3 lbs pumpkin or sweet potato, cooked an chopped
1 tblsp cinnamon
1 tsp cayenne pepper
2 tbl basil or oregano or rosemary
Hot water from the cooking for consistency.
Our lab was 120 lbs and bad hips. On this diet, she got to eat a lot, and is now down to a good 80 lbs. Been on it for 8 years now. For young dogs, we sometimes mix it with high grade kibble.
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