Monday, October 12, 2009

Pictures of the "Butchering"




Narrative that accompanies the pictures is in the next post...










This is the "killing cone"








glass topped table for gutting and cutting









hot water for dipping, must be kept hot











another view of the table








out new "chicken plucker" worked really well








feathers covering the tree









Thursday's packing (13 birds ready for the freezer)









Saturday. Just finishing up in the dark.

4 comments:

Lori said...

Isn't that one of the greatest feelings in the world...being able to butcher on your own and stuff it in the freezer??!! Yay for y'all! :)

Mrs. Doug said...

Thanks Lori...
I value your comments, your surely have had lots of experience in "farmin'"
We have had meat birds in the past and it was always so tedious during butchering because I would not take off time from work to do it. We work at it day after day... This was much easier. It is a very rewarding work though and so very "tasty".

Thanks for commenting.

Lynn said...

Wow, this is impressive! Enjoy your chicken dinners this year :)

Conny said...

wow, that's kind of neat. we're no farmers or hunters or anything like that so we get all our meat from the grocery store!!