Lazy Gardener
Super Self-Sufficient
Good that you can work together on this project. It makes it go so much faster. I do it alone, and am
SO, SO S-L-O-W!
SO, SO S-L-O-W!
Cornish Cross Spring 2019
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Beekissed
Mountain Sage
I do it alone too, LG, so I feel ya....but I don't worry too much about speed of processing. Slow and steady usually gets more done ~and done well ~than faster folk.
frustratedearthmother
Sustainability Master
@baymule - My husband and I work together to do chickens also. He is a fantastic chicken plucker also (but mostly because we have a mechanical plucker, lol).
In our kind of heat, slow and steady would give us a bunch of rotted meat, lol. We move fast and toss 'em in an ice chest full of ice water when they're plucked and gutted. We are a good team and the birds are clean, featherless, cool and a source of healthy meat when we are finished.
Hope ya'll are having a great chicken harvest day!
In our kind of heat, slow and steady would give us a bunch of rotted meat, lol. We move fast and toss 'em in an ice chest full of ice water when they're plucked and gutted. We are a good team and the birds are clean, featherless, cool and a source of healthy meat when we are finished.
Hope ya'll are having a great chicken harvest day!
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baymule
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10 chickens on ice. We worked fast, cutting throats, scalding, picking and gutting. Taking a lunch break if peanut butter and wild plum jam sandwich. Then the afternoon to cut and package.
Lazy Gardener
Super Self-Sufficient
And, again... one who is far removed from the food chain has not an inkling of a clue how many hours went into the lovely BBQ chicken that you produce!
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baymule
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I have 5 cut up and packaged. Tired and taking a break. I washed and cloroxed the bowl, knives, cutting board and counter top. I will start supper after while and evening chores. I may finish in the morning.
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baymule
Sustainability Master
I got the other 5 cut up and packaged today. I wrote down the dressed weights and the weights of the packaged chicken. I haven't totaled it up yet. I had a 7 pound and 7 pound 2 ounce carcasses.
frustratedearthmother
Sustainability Master
Wow - that's a big ol' carcass! Lots of good eatin' on those birds!
Mini Horses
Sustainability Master
I have to do it alone when butchering. No one wants any part of that portion of "farm to table" 
Because of that lone worker situation, skinning is where I am going. Rarely eat any fried anyway. A few will be left whole to bake....maybe. I dislike plucking.
Because of that lone worker situation, skinning is where I am going. Rarely eat any fried anyway. A few will be left whole to bake....maybe. I dislike plucking.
Beekissed
Mountain Sage
I have to do it alone when butchering. No one wants any part of that portion of "farm to table"
Same here. I can all the chickens, even the CX, and don't see the point in saving their skins for stock when their stock isn't the best that can be found.
And no one is interested in farm to table here either, so I'm always alone in butchering. Skinning makes things so much simpler and easier, so I can get 5-7 done of a morning and resting in the fridge for deboning later. Especially now that I have my handy dandy DIY butchering station set up, complete with a neck vise mounted to the killing tree to make it easier for me to shuck the skins using my own wt for leverage and yielding a very clean carcass. Butchering has never been easier.
