When your hens get too old to lay, are you going to process them yourself, or sell them to someone else? By the time they're through I will be back in country... and by that time, i will probably be an expert at that sort of thing. Blech! Just invite me over.
Joel Salatin talks about the "stewing hen" on page 397 of "You Can Farm" (which I highly recommend). It's a spent hen, that then is boiled all day. Apparently there is a tradition of eating this way back in the days of our great-grandfathers. Its is amusing to me, as I've seen it firsthand here in Guatemala. Just gotta cook 'em longer.

I like your idea of posting my hillbilly chickens. I will do that. :) As for yellow yolks? Dude, right now we buy eggs from a neighbor, and my pancakes are sunflower yellow now.