Dispatch time....

[chickenman]

Fare thee well my chickens. Thanks for providing for us. We took loving care of them and now it's time..
The circle is compete as hard as it may be.
Will take to local farm where we traded our processing equipment to a much younger farmer who doe's many more chickens than I 600 chickens he will process in exchange..

Very healthy less than 3% mortality....

 

[Prime C]

So whats the best way to butcher them?

 

[Seamaiden]

Slaughter cone is what pretty much everyone who does this says. Flip 'em upside down, cut throat, let them 'fall asleep' as they're bleeding out. This is what cm told me and everything else I read (such as in Acres, USA magazine) says the same thing for all fowl.

I've got a bird isolated right now, it's raling and it took me a while to figure out what was going on, I thought I was hearing a newt's or toad's call for over a week before I realized it was the bird. Put it on probiotics and its own feed.

 

[chickenman]

So whats the best way to butcher them?

Chickens are placed upside down in stainless steel killing comes.
to stun we poke thru roof of mouth into chickens brain, 3 twists stuns chicken
With very sharp pointed knife cut jugular vein without cutting wind pipe.
Allow to fully die and bleed out.
Remove from cone, snap the chickens vent removing manure., remove feet then heads.
allow more time to fully bleed out, critical for a good clean bird.
Scald 4 at once in scalder 145 deg. 2 mins or so.
Pluck in plucker 30 seconds 4 birds clean as whistle.
Inveterate, wash, bag, then fast chill in freezer for 4 hours, then refrigerate 4 days to cure then freeze.
60 chickens on truck 50 left for next week
5 lb average...4$ a pound

 

[chickenman]

A nice buck taken last night by our farm intern and his girlfriend, also our intern.
Clean shot, quick kill. Winter meat...

 

[Stalks]

Beautiful buck!

I've been thinking of getting some meat birds to feed me and the girlfriend I know the meat has to be better

 

[GoldiNugs]

Very interesting gaining insight into farm life. One day I hope I'll be living it.