The eggs sure taste better but the chicken all depends on the variety you raise. Some species give good eggs but taste not so good. Where I live (backyard coops less than 3 acres) you can only have 6 hens no roosters and you cannot kill the hens for food. Now consider that you only get eggs food about 3 years but the chickens live for 5-6 years. Six years old chickens don’t taste very good no matter the species.
My grandma had a rooster that patrolled her potato patch, eating the potato bugs. Later on, when she decided to butcher and cook him, his meat turned out to smell like raw potatoes
Robert Nowall Premium Member over 7 years ago
That fifty-dollar chicken better be damned tasty…
miscreant over 7 years ago
The eggs sure taste better but the chicken all depends on the variety you raise. Some species give good eggs but taste not so good. Where I live (backyard coops less than 3 acres) you can only have 6 hens no roosters and you cannot kill the hens for food. Now consider that you only get eggs food about 3 years but the chickens live for 5-6 years. Six years old chickens don’t taste very good no matter the species.
Daniel Jacobson over 7 years ago
My grandma had a rooster that patrolled her potato patch, eating the potato bugs. Later on, when she decided to butcher and cook him, his meat turned out to smell like raw potatoes