WARNING: This post contains GRAPHIC photos of butchering chickens! I was pretty excited and took pics of EVERYTHING! But, on a sunnier note, I got some of the BEST pictures I have gotten of the boys all year! :o)
Early this morning we got up early, skipped our showers (chickens on “death row” don’t really care how you smell), and headed out to my brother and sister-in-law’s place.
After watching the Custer Family Farm chicken butchering video on YouTube, we all went out back to get started.
First thing is to get the chickens out of the coop and tape their feet together. Then you take the chickens to the chopping block… and WHACK! Off with their heads!
Chickens get ya pretty messy with all that blood and all…
When they stopped flapping, you move them to the kettle for a dip in the “hot tub” before plucking…
Watch out turkeys!!! You’re next…
3 comments:
It looks like you have a pretty good production line (and enough people to man it!) so this doesn't take all day. Nice job!
Out of interest, how old were your chickens? And what breed are they?
Now I'm off to look around the rest of your site!
Darren- Hope you get this reply. They were my brother and sister-in-law's chickens. They were 8 week old cornish cross. These guys were bred to eat! It took us just about 2 hours for all of them. We had everything cleaned up and the birds in the freezer in 3 hours!
Hey, I must say i like your blog of the butchering and wierdly enough i enjoyed looking at the pictures too.
Keep the posts and pictures comming.
Lucy
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