Sorry, picture heavy!
I've raised these in the past, with great luck, so decided to do another batch this year.
I feed the game hens a special diet to flavor the meat while "on the hoof". It worked pretty well last time so I went with the same feed. A blend of garlic, ginger, scallion, corn for fat and garden veggies. They also ate grasshoppers and any bugs they could catch.
Anyway...
I started with day old Cornish Rocks..
Built a pvc/chickenwire pen to move them around the farm...
The special corn, garlic, ginger, scallion feed..
I process the birds at 1 1/2 to 2 lbs.
Used my home made chicken plucker...
set up the scald water...
A minute or two in the plucker...
cleaned and ready to chill...
chilled overnight and bagged for the freezer...
I took a couple with me while camping...
made a wild rice, water chestnut blend...
added chicken stock and set the flavored game hens on top...
shoveled a few hot coals on top and settled down with a beer...
In about an hour, the birds were ready...
The flavored birds, rice and garden tomatoes...
I really like these....
The flavors came through again. I'll be raising more in the future.
Again, sorry for so many pics, but thanks for looking!