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We butchered our chickens yesterday! #6996106
09/21/20 11:41 AM
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Check that one off the list!

Next year when we have to butcher chickens again it will be too soon!

Sure is rewarding though!

We started with 61 and ended up butchering 51. I know what happened to 3, but the other 7 who knows!?

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Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: Jurassic Park] #6996114
09/21/20 11:50 AM
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Looks great. We butchered 48 early summer thinking if we sold some great if not we would have what we wanted to eat. The wife sold quite a few and the 2nd batch is currently growing out and should be ready for the freezer next month.

We butchered with friends and customers that wanted to be involved so it was fun and went by quickly. If it's just the wife and I it will be much more like work.

Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: Jurassic Park] #6996118
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Those look fantastic. Always have admired a good clean butcher job.

Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: Jurassic Park] #6996126
09/21/20 12:07 PM
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Nice.


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Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: Jurassic Park] #6996138
09/21/20 12:24 PM
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Nice, what did you use to pluck them?


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Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: Jurassic Park] #6996152
09/21/20 12:40 PM
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i did 25 this year. wife decided she wanted to can them instead of freeze them. we can't eat a whole chicken since there is only two of us.cut the wings into pieces and into there own bag. legs and thighs into there own bags. breast cut and jared. saved some freezer space.
i built a plucker last year.working on a scalder now!


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Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: Jurassic Park] #6996165
09/21/20 12:57 PM
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Fine looking batch of birds, JP, you folks did a crack-up job.

One of my earliest memories was of a butchering day back in the mid 50's. Me dad was chopping and tossing the fryers, my mother would wait til they'd quit flopping and grab them to dip in the scalding pot, and I would do whatever a 2-3 year old does. My dad had whacked one's head off and tossed it into the burn barrel, so I climbed up and looked in at the pile of heads......and the freshest one blinked!

Scalded, wet, steaming chicken feather smell is not a pleasant smell. It instantly takes me back to that blinking fryer head in the burn barrel. My Bride always tosses the skin on chicken, so when we are lopping off heads I skin them all so there is no dipping involved!


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wow,hats off sir,did 25 and 3 turkeys about a mon a go.









Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: Jurassic Park] #6996207
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Here’s a pic of the setup lol.

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And here’s what I use to pluck the feathers. I made this from a 4” PVC cap and added these plucker fingers I bought from the farm supply store. Attach it to the drill, my wife holds the drill down like in the pic and I hold the chicken against it. It works real good!

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Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: Jurassic Park] #6996211
09/21/20 01:39 PM
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So how long to mature.
What does the chicken weight. They look very good.
nice job.

Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: J.Morse] #6996214
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Originally Posted by J.Morse
Fine looking batch of birds, JP, you folks did a crack-up job.

One of my earliest memories was of a butchering day back in the mid 50's. Me dad was chopping and tossing the fryers, my mother would wait til they'd quit flopping and grab them to dip in the scalding pot, and I would do whatever a 2-3 year old does. My dad had whacked one's head off and tossed it into the burn barrel, so I climbed up and looked in at the pile of heads......and the freshest one blinked!

Scalded, wet, steaming chicken feather smell is not a pleasant smell. It instantly takes me back to that blinking fryer head in the burn barrel. My Bride always tosses the skin on chicken, so when we are lopping off heads I skin them all so there is no dipping involved!


Thanks J. Morse!

LOL, yup lots of blinking heads in the buckets here too lol.

How long does it take you to skin a chicken?


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Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: grapestomper] #6996219
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Originally Posted by grapestomper
So how long to mature.
What does the chicken weight. They look very good.
nice job.


Thanks! We let these chicken din dins go to 10 weeks. I’m not sure how heavy they are, I would guess 5-6lbs.


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JP, those look fantastic and beautifully shrink wrapped!


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Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: Jurassic Park] #6996236
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Park
Originally Posted by grapestomper
So how long to mature.
What does the chicken weight. They look very good.
nice job.


Thanks! We let these chicken din dins go to 10 weeks. I’m not sure how heavy they are, I would guess 5-6lbs.


They look very good.

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Those look great JP.
I miss doing a batch of meat birds, but we are in the suburbs for a while yet.
I did 2 dozen last year - received 25 birds, had 2 die (one spraddle leg chick and one mysterious at 5 weeks).
Butchered myself I think I did 10 on the first day and a week later finished them off. Ours went 10/11 weeks and all carcasses were between 5 lbs (hens) and 6.25 lbs (roosters)
My finished product did not look as nice as yours, that's for certain, very impressive.


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You earned a new nickname. Butcher man.


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Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: slydogx] #6996248
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Originally Posted by Patrice
JP, those look fantastic and beautifully shrink wrapped!


Thank you Patrice!

Originally Posted by slydogx
Those look great JP.
I miss doing a batch of meat birds, but we are in the suburbs for a while yet.
I did 2 dozen last year - received 25 birds, had 2 die (one spraddle leg chick and one mysterious at 5 weeks).
Butchered myself I think I did 10 on the first day and a week later finished them off. Ours went 10/11 weeks and all carcasses were between 5 lbs (hens) and 6.25 lbs (roosters)
My finished product did not look as nice as yours, that's for certain, very impressive.


Thanks slydogx! Country living is a lot of fun!


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Originally Posted by run
You earned a new nickname. Butcher man.


Lol, I don’t want that!


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Re: We butchered our chickens yesterday! [Re: Jurassic Park] #6996823
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What do you used to shrink wrap then so neatly? A vacuum seal machine or something else. Great job. When I was managing the game farm/shooting club... we did average 75 to 100 per week during season. That was pheasant and ducks.

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Originally Posted by Actor
What do you used to shrink wrap then so neatly? A vacuum seal machine or something else. Great job. When I was managing the game farm/shooting club... we did average 75 to 100 per week during season. That was pheasant and ducks.

Garry-


Thanks! I used poultry shrink wrap bags. Put the chicken in the bag, zip tie it shut, dunk the whole chicken in hot water in a big pot for about 8 seconds, then pull it out. The bag shrinks to the chicken nice and tight!


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