Welp decided these buns went getting any bigger and it was time to put them in the freezer (yeah mini rex as a buck ....not a good plan I admit gonna be getting a texas A&M soon :D) . She made a deal when we got them that if I did the killin she'd help with everything else ... Not gonna lie thought she was a lil full of it but nope , as soon as I was done dispatching them she was there with the knives a bucket and gloves . Showed her how to do one and she about had it with the others . No crying , puking, hoppin or hollering , well past a lil " EW EW EW EWWWW IS WARM ITS SO WA M AND SQUISHY" but other then that she did great ! She said it wasn't near as bad as she thought it would be but she's a lil confused how to feel though.

Is that blood all over in her hair?

A fine lil' woman you got there Wolfie. Good deal.

It is awesome that she chipped in and helped with this and knows where food comes from.

Nah only got on her nose ring lol

O yeah love her to death

"She's a little confused on how to feel"

Hopefully she feels hungry!

She doesn't have to "feel" anything about it. Its a job that needs done. Just do it.
I guess being raised butchering things starting as a little kid helps with that.

I dated a few pink haired girls. Good times. I always liked hunting rabbits. Never raised one though. Seems easy enough if you wanted a freezer full of them. My wife is more into Chicken. If I can figure out where to put a coop to keep them out of the flower beds we'll have a meat bird operation some day. Found an old plucker off of FB. Seems like a guy could have a small operation like this and sell a few. Im sure you've heard of Joe Salatin. He as some great videos.

Good for her, not going to lie, I can't remember doing my first rabbit, so long ago.

Run your meat birds in a tractor like he does. I built 2. I can tell you its much cheaper to buy a cooked chicken at sams than buy and raise chicks. To sell them you need to develop a market of people that care how They are raised and willing to pay $5 a lb or more to make it worth your time. We rais a few hundred a year and would do thousands if I had the market.

Domestic rabbits tast much better than wild.



Good deal wolfdog in just a few more rounds it will become a chore and part of life. No more ewww its squishy.

I would say most people think they should feel this way or that way , that they should appall the killing

the truth is , how do you feel about going to the grocery and buying a roast , I feel exactly the same pulling the trigger on a beef , hog or cutting a chickens arteries.

Respect the animal , give it a clean and pain-free death but it is food and it was food all along.

the only way you should feel is what you feel for all your food , if you kill it you did it , if you pay someone to kill it you still killed it you just outsourced the work. The reality of an animal being dead so you could eat remains the same.

$5 rotisserie chicken already cooked and pipping hot is hard to beat. Probably why I haven't done it yet. It be nice to get a few rounds of birds under my belt so I at least had the process down. Thats a lot of why I garden. Its more about I like knowing I know how to grow a big garden and knowing I can than really needed all of it. I need to butcher a few hogs and a few chickens and get that process figured out too.

Great job Mrs Wolfie .

I dont know how far away you are but your welcome to come down on a butcher day and see my process. There are probably more effect set uo but it works for us. I may even have another batch of wine ready you can give me your opinion on.

I am was about to say I don't think most people on here can relate to someone like her who has NEVER and I mean NEVER done stuff like this . She's lived in the suburbs for like 95% of her life eating processed food .Like shes never even broken down a whole store bought chicken so butchering an animal that she raised ( and yes he does most of the raising while I'm gone ) from a new born yeaahhh it's a big leap. She's mentioned a few times when she's seen me kill stuff how I just kinda shut off for a second and she just doesn't understand how I can do that .

It's one thing for people who grew up doing it in their formative years where your brain is still wiring it's self but it's different for someone in their late 20's who again... Has never done it .... Not to mention she grew up on a lot of Disney movies so... Yeah that doesn't help much.

But don't see much point in being the one of those hard (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) husbands. Told her to just feel what she's feeling at the time but don't dwell on it . Talked her though the process let her take a break or two . It's just a rabbit for me but it's a pretty big deal for her . I know I've seen some guys just be complete dicks with their women the first time they clean a critter or shoot something and it just turns them off from it forever wanat trying do that. Call me a liberal or whatever but

Sounds like you handled it well, Wolfie.

It is very different for people never exposed to it. I've done buckskinning demo's where kids will watch, in awe, as I chop vegetables to make stew. They've never seen that before.

Even for kids raised with it, it never clicks for some. My own brother can't deal with killing animals very well at all.

Like you said, we just "shut off" and do it.

Thats a great understanding and way to handle it wolfdog. She is doing great!!

I mean honestly the big things is ...alot of people just don't think or see it like that plain and simple. The majority of people just seem to have a mental black between say that cow in the pasture is the steak in the freezer department. Where a few generations removed from actually seeing the processes and it's totally the point that I seen people legitimately struggle with it. Like I helped people slaughter their first animal and I seen them just sit there at the table staring at pork chop or something from that animal and it's just ... I really don't know how to explain it. Same with wild game , some are just in awe that they went from a wild animal to fresh food on their plate and love it others ... Well they don't hate it it's just , I guess their in shock or something because they never thought about what all really goes into getting that piece of meat into the grocery store.

Then there just the killing part of it . I mean yeah you can tell folks all day you did the right thing and gave it a quit death..but for some people, it's as simple as killin is killing and it's just hard to rationalize it as good thing . It just is and sometimes you can totally get them out of that by showing them something like Halal slaughter methods and that will knock them out of it... But other times... It's just killin is killing and they hate it . Me personally I hate killing chickens because cutting arteries or slitting throats is somiinjsit plain can't stand to do I just can't . I shoot em with a pellet gun , use a hatchet , whatever but kill cones and a knife just does something to me I can't get past .

Wolfie,
Sometimes its not the butchering and killing thats hard for city folk... its the not falling in love with it before hand they need to figure out. My wifes from philly. lol.