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| Articles about Slaughtering |
| Tomorrow is Chicken Slaughtering/Butchering Day | | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | That's my big event for tomorrow. A few hours of slaughtering/butchering chickens with a group of friends in the great rural Kansas outdoors. It's a messy job, but we really enjoy the results. The chickens are usually around 4.5 lbs and until I butchered and ate my own chicken last year I never knew there was that much of a difference! (Because I am an ex-city kid and all.)
I am going tomorrow morning to buy myself my own knife. I have been told to get me about a 4" fish fillet knife. I used some good ones and some bad ones last time I butchered. It was hard using hand-me-down knives because I did not have my own, but I ended up using a decent one and got my job done just fine. I now know why people go and buy and bring their own knives. I know better this year.
My daughter is still too young to participate with us the cutting activities, but she was a super helper last year in that she would take the chickens off the table and drop them into the water buckets. She also liked ... | | By: Mom and Miss A's Homeschool Experience | | |
| | Chicken Slaughtering/Butchering Day Went Great! | | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | |
Chicken Slaughtering/Butchering Day Went Great!
I am sunburned and exhausted, but other than that it was a blast as usual. The fun part is just talking with friends while working on a project for 3 hours. We could have been doing just about anything and we still would have had fun.
My daughter was watching the men take the chickens out of the coop and carry them to the crates. Next thing I knew she was carrying chickens to crates too, only two at a time! And, I got that on video!
After the chickens were bled and dunked in the scalding tank they were put into this thing called a Whizbanger. It has rubber finger-like things on the inside of it and the entire things spins around and the chickens get thrown inside and sprayed with a bit of water and they come out with all their feathers pulled off. It is fast and easy!
It was hot and humid, but not too humid. And there was not much of a breeze. The sky was a deep blue with big fat clouds. I got a great shot here of the ba... | | By: Mom and Miss A's Homeschool Experience | | |
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