No, we won’t eat our pet chickens. I did mention to the family that we could cremate them and enjoy the smell.
Gag, choke! Burning feathers-well remembered from ranch days-is one of the few smells that can make me sick, instantly-another is fresh asphalt being used for paving-awful, just the thought makes me shudder-glad I’m going for a hike and won’t eat for awhile...
May I suggest carting the chickens to the woods after their demise instead? That will benefit the scavenger critters and take any mess or odor away from the home-even goats that perish are normally dealt with like that out here-taken to an unpopulated area where vultures and other scavengers make short work of them-I’ve come upon many sets of bones hiking in or near the forest.