Lorihadams-- hi guys...been busy!
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That's what I thought....I figured after everyone leaves and I have the house to myself I'll thaw them out and grind everything up and then cook all the ground meat and then freeze it....It'll make my life easier in the long run anyway right? 
The rest of the family arrives today....I don't quite know how to feel about that yet. Today is 20 degrees colder than it was yesterday and we are supposed to get some rain the next couple of days. So much for processing the first batch of meat birds. Maybe Saturday and Sunday....
I'm tired of feeding them!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
The rest of the family arrives today....I don't quite know how to feel about that yet. Today is 20 degrees colder than it was yesterday and we are supposed to get some rain the next couple of days. So much for processing the first batch of meat birds. Maybe Saturday and Sunday....
I'm tired of feeding them!Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
AL
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I was hoping to get to my first batch of meats this weekend as well, but I just don't think they are going to be big enough. If you get to do yours I look forward to details!
Farmfresh
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Remember now AL those SAME meat birds are often processed at 2 pounds!! At that size the store sells them as Cornish Game Hens!! 
It is all about the labeling!!
It is all about the labeling!!
TanksHill
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Happy Thanksgiving Lori!!
Farmfresh
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Maybe your extended family should be introduced to chicken processing as a PART of your NEW Thanksgiving traditions!lorihadams said:The rest of the family arrives today....I don't quite know how to feel about that yet. Today is 20 degrees colder than it was yesterday and we are supposed to get some rain the next couple of days. So much for processing the first batch of meat birds. Maybe Saturday and Sunday....
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
It would ensure that most of them left in a timely fashion anyway!
Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the time with your brother.
TanksHill
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Hey Lori, just checking in. Thought I would stop by and say howdy. Your probably up to your elbows in meaties!!
let us know how it's going.
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g
let us know how it's going.
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Hi everybody! We processed the first 10 meaties with one of our clients yesterday and thankfully, he decided not to pluck any of the birds once he saw how much easier it was to skin them!
While they were being processed we lost one, I found it in the tractor this morning. The rest of the birds had eaten the head and neck meat down to the bones and had started on the breast. I am wondering if it had a heart attack in all the excitement yesterday. The others just turned on it and went cannibal.
I have a rooster!!! One of the egg layers that I had, an EE crowed his first crow yesterday! He went "EEEEERRRRRRR" 
I thought I would DIE!!!
Chad says he is "going away from here" cause we haven't had good luck with roosters and since he's in the killing mood I don't know what will happen but I would like to keep him. I have 9 hens so he shouldn't tear them up too badly. He seems like a good bird but then again he is only 4 months old.
I am going to package the first 10 meaties when Chad gets home today and we will probably do 10 more. I have to get out all the order forms and see what's what. D, our first client said he wanted to order some silkies to process next time cause he went to an asian store and they wanted $10 for a 2lb bird. He has a friend that prepared a traditional Chinese meal for them for Thanksgiving...pork belly with parsnips. He said it still had the teats on it but it tasted like the best bacon he had ever had and it was fantastic!
Hubby was able to get some free traffic cones from work that they were going to discard and we cut the top 6 inches off and turned them into killing cones and they worked great! We screwed the base into a piece of wood with 3 screws and attached the 2x4 with the 6 cones on it to 2 trees in the back of our property and it worked fabulously!!!
Thanksgiving was wonderful....we had D's wife, a professional photographer, come out and take pics of all the family together since we had my brother and his husband here. My brother is coming back up for xmas and he is bringing me a pond liner!!!! He said someone gave it to him and it turned out to be too big for the space he wanted it for so he's bringing it to me for the ducks!!!
I love him
While they were being processed we lost one, I found it in the tractor this morning. The rest of the birds had eaten the head and neck meat down to the bones and had started on the breast. I am wondering if it had a heart attack in all the excitement yesterday. The others just turned on it and went cannibal.
I have a rooster!!! One of the egg layers that I had, an EE crowed his first crow yesterday! He went "EEEEERRRRRRR"
I thought I would DIE!!! Chad says he is "going away from here" cause we haven't had good luck with roosters and since he's in the killing mood I don't know what will happen but I would like to keep him. I have 9 hens so he shouldn't tear them up too badly. He seems like a good bird but then again he is only 4 months old.
I am going to package the first 10 meaties when Chad gets home today and we will probably do 10 more. I have to get out all the order forms and see what's what. D, our first client said he wanted to order some silkies to process next time cause he went to an asian store and they wanted $10 for a 2lb bird. He has a friend that prepared a traditional Chinese meal for them for Thanksgiving...pork belly with parsnips. He said it still had the teats on it but it tasted like the best bacon he had ever had and it was fantastic!
Hubby was able to get some free traffic cones from work that they were going to discard and we cut the top 6 inches off and turned them into killing cones and they worked great! We screwed the base into a piece of wood with 3 screws and attached the 2x4 with the 6 cones on it to 2 trees in the back of our property and it worked fabulously!!!
Thanksgiving was wonderful....we had D's wife, a professional photographer, come out and take pics of all the family together since we had my brother and his husband here. My brother is coming back up for xmas and he is bringing me a pond liner!!!! He said someone gave it to him and it turned out to be too big for the space he wanted it for so he's bringing it to me for the ducks!!!
I love him
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We got a free pond liner for our ducks over thanksgiving, too. How do you plan to use yours? We currently just have a hole that the ducks use as a pond with a tarp so a pond liner will be an improvement.
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I don't know...I have to see it first We may end up doing a water feature with some koi or something if it is too complicated for the ducks. We'll see when it gets here....hubby doesn't know about it yet so it will be a fun surprise! 
We may end up doing a water feature with some koi or something if it is too complicated for the ducks. We'll see when it gets here....hubby doesn't know about it yet so it will be a fun surprise! 
