You can also pressure can (or just pressure cook) your meat, which will help make it a bit easier to chew. I've also heard you can put it through a meat grinder (hand cranked ones at yard sales for $1, probably find one to trade) and make ground chicken that is pretty good for stuff like tacos. I haven't tried that one myself yet.
If you have any growing space at all, kale is a fairly high-protein crop you can feed your chickens that grows prolifically just about everywhere. Various types of worm and bug boxes can be used to grow some high quality meat protein for your chickens, and they can be built with wood scraps and twigs.
All great ideas!
I had not thought of pressure canning or grinding the meat. I'm sure either one of those might make it better. We use ground turkey a lot for tacos. Unfortunately in Cali people over value everything they have used lol. I won't be finding a grinder for a dollar lol. I have seen them on cl though for near new price. I grew up using those grinders regularly. I'll be looking for one now though, been wanting one for other things anyway.
I have tons of growing space but for us it's water that is the issue. We are in high desert and the rainy season is almost over. I have water collection set up but had to settle for used roofing so i have tons of leaks and i'm not collecting what we should or even close. Have to bring water in and my car is to small to haul any. We do have a killer water tank I built from scratch to hold a bunch though. We've tried gardens every year and it's always water that kills us (and an overwhelming amount of ground squirrels lol). We are raising mealworms for extra protein now. It will be mid summer before we can feed them to the chickens though. We intend on raising black soldier fly larvae this year as well. I'm also about to start duckweed. I know, it is raised on water, but the water is stagnant and it dont use much so i'm assuming it will use less than regular crops and be easier to manage with our water issue. Once I can afford it, I'll be turning my back seat into a water tank to haul water. Then we can focus on some crops both for us and the chickens.
tried grinding it and it was decent. made tacos