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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

Lisa,
My suggestion is go with the RIRs and get back in chickens.  Don't eat
the meat unless you prepare it yourself. Anything less is a cop out.

Rob - Va

> I think we're going to get poultry early spring, just enough to have eggs
> although I'm trying to become a tougher bird myself and would like to eat
> our own meat. We used to have RIR and the black ones with white flecks, the
> name escapes me now. We had a couple Araucana's as well.
>
> I have a friend who has poultry for the first time and wants to eat their
> own meat but doesn't want to butcher their hens themselves. She proposes
> taking their birds to a farm up the road who will do it if they 'assist', so
> we may begin that way.
>
> lkvp
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