Anyone breed meat chickens and not just egg layers??

[PurpleHeather]

How do you actually do the dastardly deed? I know my grandfather used to, what he called, neck them. It was always done out of my sight though.

When Gordon Ramsey fattened up some turkeys for Christmas he got a professional slaughterer to do the job.

No doubt if one does keep their own foul for eating, one can make sure that they are fed with proper stuff. Frankly I would rather pay the extra for some one else to terminate, gut and pluck for me. Althugh I have and can 'dress' as they politely call it.

People often kept a pig to feed on swill too, even some big houses and hotels kept them a distance from the house to get rid of kitchen waste. I wonder if a community pig could be reintroduced too with the every growing environmentally friendly grow yer own popular front.