This post is both a recipe and story. The chicken you see in the photo is one from our farm, harvested today. We ended up killing four total, picking and choosing the worst behaved of our birds. We originally intended to take five, but kept one alive because of her demeaner. Her flock didn't seem upset to see her again when we put her back in her enclosure.

Here's a shot of them before we cleaned them because I think it's important to remind people where food comes from. The bird I ended up cooking tonight is the large black and white one. He was kind of an ass to his ladies and me as well. He was also over a year old which made his meat tough and gamy. The others were taken for the following reasons: general asshole behavior, raping of ducks and other birds, human and bird aggression, cannabalistic traits. One of them was a naked necked chicken with a bad foot who has seriously maimed every friend she's had despite her injury.

Three are frozen. The one we ate had tougher texture than any chicken I've had, which explains why people suggest you eat younger birds.

I put him in the instant pot with a simple herb and dijon mustard spice rub for an hour and forgot to add a bit of water to the pot. If you don't add enough moisture to the instant pot it won't pressurize so it doesn't really cook. I ended up having to add a cup of water later and re cook for 35 minutes on high pressure. After it was done I put it on top of some parmesan rice I plan to share the recipe to another time and some parmesan cheese. I put it in the oven to broil for about 10 minutes for a crispy crust on the bird.

This was the first time I personally have ever killed anything for food. It was a humbling experience and while it was hard to do it didn't exactly leave me running to the hills to quit eating meat or even chicken farming. It has made me want to waste less meat.

I have three birds in the freezer and we have plans to take more birds in the future of both chickens and ducks. It's been a year and we could have harvested some before now but haven't due to lack of time and other things. Now we are dealing with lack of space in our enclosures and lack of peace among the flock. Compound that with the fact that there are some babies that will be growing up that we raised that need a place to go, it's time to make room for the new generation.

I thought it'd be harder to choose which ones to take and to do the deed in general. Having raised birds I actually see it as humane to kill most birds unless they're pampered pets around a year old. After that they start getting health issues and the meat is not as palatable.

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