If it's a male, typically butchered young, 40-50ish days. You only need so many roosters, and they're loud once they get old enough to crow. In most U.S. cities

If it's a male, typically butchered young, 40-50ish days. You only need so many roosters, and they're loud once they get old enough to crow. In most U.S. cities, crowing roosters are illegal, but mainly that's because it pisses off the neighbors. Butchering elsewhere might work. Seems like a pain. And seems like there could be a limit on how many you can butcher rather than making it illegal. E.g. Denver, I think you can only have eight chickens at a time anyway. Age wise, eating chickens are always young, less than 50 days. Some people might butcher the egg laying chicken at first molt when it'll stop laying eggs for 1-3 months. Others do it at 2-3 years when it tapers off. These are tougher meat chickens but they stew fine.