Ewan McInerney (Genesis 9:3-6) “when God tells Noah in the covenant made with him after the Great Flood, "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”
I think watching the entire process helps put the value of chickens and their role in our lives as humans into perspective. We rely heavily on these beautiful birds for daily nutrition and in some cases companionship, but so many people take it for granted with the way they either waste the chicken they buy or criticize others for eating it. I would personally never eat any chicken that I raise, but I appreciate the farms like this that take good care of the chickens as they raise them. They have a good amount of room, plenty of food and water, and they're cared for all the way up to the butcher. And even at the butcher, it's quick and doesn't make the bird suffer. Thank you for putting this video up for people to see the process and understand what it takes to put their meal on their table.
When I was 7 years old, I was playing with a chicken in the afternoon in the backyard of my house. During dinner time, I ate fried chicken. After dinner I asked my mom if I could go outside and play with the chicken and there was ackward silence. lol.
I'm getting 50 Cornish cross in June were excited to do some meat birds it's crazy how fast these grow. At for weeks old they are bigger than my 6 week old layers.
I run mine in mobile coops (chicken tractor) I don't want them sitting in their own manure so they are moved daily the 1st 3 weeks on pasture and twice daily till butcher. It gives them access to different foods grasses, insects, worms which I believe adds flavor and makes for a better life for the chicken. The added benefit is seen in the pasture dark green pasture grass from the manure.
I raise mine with other layers and let them free range to be more active. I feed corn meal with their chick feed and add oyster shell powder for strong bones since they grow so fast. I also only butcher a few at a time and get 8-12lb birds at the end. The better conditioned hens I keep and breed with some success now. This indoor way is much more expensive
@@uprightfossil6673 I have way to many predator issues to free range. Wish I could for the quality of life for the chicken. But I don't think free range meat birds gain weight as fast as confined birds.
Just took 22 to the butcher today. Avg weight 12 lbs with many pushing 15. So glad they're gone. Raise em every year for 35 years. Best tasting chickens I ever ate. Super Cornish X-rocks. Great birds. How you process 100+ is beyond me ! God bless you !
If u got this far in the video then you already saw where they came from. The butchering process is just butchering that's it and has nothing to do with where the chickens being butchered came from.🙄 I'm sure u can find a video on Utube somewhere or perhaps the dark web but i'm not certain the butchering video is actually what u say "age restricted". Keep watching even when it pauses it'll restart itself and then u can watch since it's so important to you. Duh!
Nice video! We have raised chickens for about 14 years. Hatching and eating eggs. I have finally talked my wife into raising some the freezer. We eat everything else but the goats!
We just butchered 31 yesterday. If you're interested in how we package them up here is a quick video I did yesterday. Good luck to you my friend! ruclips.net/video/mj2IVdlx2ME/видео.html
In the 1950's..we raised 300. The same way..but our chickens also had a outside pen to run and scratch in. Raising your own food on the farm is the only way to have good,quality products for the family dining table. It also shows the children things they will not learn in school. Good video..great job..!!! God Bless you and your farm family....
As a hobby grower, I completely agree. I’ve grown my own tomato plants, and even some pepper plants and it’s safe to say that home grown tomatoes are WAY better than store bought ones.
Really like your system. The whole time I’m thinking how much work it would be to butcher 100 chickens but that system didn’t seem to bad, and quality family time.
Thank you for giving the option of an edited vs unedited version. In my case, I just can't see blood. I couldn't even watch my own finger getting sewed after breaking it last year (actually forgot to ask how many stitches were used). Also, kudos for using two quick humane strikes instead of the old traditional neck break.
Thank you for that. My family eats a lot of chicken as it is a very healthy and protein rich food source. Chickens are a renewable food source and we are thankful for good folks like yourselves who make it available for the masses. We also enjoy our "farmed" catfish which is also a renewable food source. Thanks again.
I have 8 meat chickens coming in a month (we live in a town where you can have up to 11) and getting ready to build the outdoor mobile coop. I'm excited but also apprehensive; these are living things after all and it's a big responsibility; we can't just take a vacation and leave them alone for a week. Plus, there are all sorts of predators wandering through our yard at night -- 'coons, possums, foxes, cats... so it's got to be secure, and I'm working on getting a dog pretty soon, too. Thanks for the video - that's quite the production, 96 chickens processed in one day!
Best no BS chicken video without any actors or other I've viewed to date Lol I get 100 chicks tomorrow and ten turkeys with a back room ready for them sort of. Hope I do as well as You and feel a bit better after watching this (stressed ), Many Thanks. Keep on growing in the Free World. Cheers and Peace Out
Can I ask, why they are placed in cold water first after they are butchered, and then packed. We raise at home but we do not butcher ourselves. Our butchering shops do not do that process first before packing.
Wow.. You guys are really amazing.. I was amazed when you cut the video.. You are really awesome.. That was a good moral respect for the viewers and to the chicken as well may God bless you and your family on that showing good..
As any farmer will say never get attached to your farm animals, because you'll never want to kill them for food consumption or product. You have to go in with the mindset that these animals are here to make you money for your livelihood. not to raise as personal pets.
Dearest Cook Family Homes, I am soooo excited for This very PRECIOUS VIDEO'S series!!! Congratulations and Thank You all very MUCH. It was hard working left alone the butherie day!!! Oooohhh They look soooo YUMMIE YUMMIE... God BLESS You with such a BEAUTIFUL Wisdom. 💎💎💎💎💎🍾🥂🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🌹🌹 Thank You for sharing your Blessings. Take GOOD care of you all in this pandemic time Sir and God Bless You. Greetings from Suriname that is in South America💐💐💐
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Great video! It's amazing to see how quickly they grow in only 8 weeks! I live in Liberia and am working to get some fertilized eggs brought over in someone's luggage to raise a couple different dual-purpose breeds. I'll definitely revisit this video when I'm preparing to butcher the extra roosters.
Jon, at the time I wrote this (2 years ago), finding good quality stock was very difficult. Our only real option was the local “country chicken” which lays small eggs and produces a small, lean carcass. Fortunately, recently I located an NGO that sells Rhode Island Reds for layers and some type of white Leghorn cross for meat birds. I had a bunch ordered, but then COVID-19 hit Liberia and we are in lock down until June.
@@africanhomestead I was going to say, surely NGO's should be doing something about that! If they're serious about addressing global hunger issues, that's a really obvious place to start! I regularly do microloans with k iva & I always try to target programs like this with my money, cause it's the best way to really make a long term impact. Could be a good resourse to see what other NGO's are working somewhere near you with forward thinking programs too, if you need more, so glad you've got at least one doing the right thing there though. Stuff like this shouldn't be hard! We all need to do everything we can to make this sort of stuff accessible to all!
What a great memory vlog. I grew up in the 70's on my grandparents farm. They had eight children and would share in the chicken harvest even though they all didn't contribute labor. I was the youngest so my job was to cross the wings and hold the chicken on the wooden block between two nails. After my Uncle wacked of its head this six yr old held on for dear life until it quit flopping and I took it to my Aunt for scaulding and so on
You're taking good care of thoses chickens. I understand vegans dislike the mass meat production in the industrial way. But here you're clearly doing it in a human and caring way. Idk why so many dislikes. What're they expecting people? Ban meat?
@@wade5941 Humans have been eating birds longer than they've been able to draw pictures of them on cave walls. Accept your humanity. Your denial is more seriously unhealthy than any disease.
Emabee 123 I raise mine for eggs...but I just butchered a few extra roosters....were not females as claimed. The breed (silver laced Wyeonna(?) can be for meat, but are best as "soup chickens". A little tougher and leaner, but more flavable. I raised a few cornish cross (meat bird like in grocery store) last year. One died of heat stroke, one the other 2 nearly pecked to death (so I ended his misery), and I separated from the others the last 2 for a few weeks till I butchered them near thanks giving (could barely stand due to weight). The biggest was almost 8 lbs, and I decided to cook him like a turkey for Thanksgiving. BEST DAMN CHICKEN I EVER HAD! Mine got to run around a be free range and you could taste the difference!
I'm having my children watch these types of videos; so they know where food comes from and that it's not from some magical Disney wizard with a wand. As with anything that yields great results, work and dedication are a must and your video shows these too. Very informational and THANK YOU for this.
Nice video but you need to do this every month. I'm a one (women) man band with a pen a month. 24 in each pen, ducks, geese, pheasants, quail, chickens, Guineas, Cornish, I myself butcher 24 in one day by myself. Do it 4 years and the job is finished by the time my kids were home from school. It's all in the set up. On weekends when my girls were helping me we could do 120 quail in 20 min. Another note.... My girls knew everything raised went in the freezer and summer months they kicked in since they were 5 years old. They raise and butcher there own today.... A great life lesson. Bummer you throw out the tail.. My husbands favorite part.. It's the tenderest part of the meat besides the tenderloin. Great video and I only wish more people would raise their own.... Blessings to you all.
We did this last year. Our chooks were outside after 3.5 weeks. Culled at 8 weeks. They were a decent size and active. Fed on high protein feed as well as scraps, lettuce etc all free from the market. No poo underneath where normally they would just sit in it. We took the food off them at night otherwise they just eat and eat. No bad legs either. But the pop was the problem. Not like egg chickens at all. Would I do it again, yes. Better meat to be honest. But only in winter because of the flies are a huge problem in the warmer times.
@@KB4QAA you’re right my mistake. But they’ve been selectively bred to be so fat they fall over. Either way much of the nutrients are diminished and few people question where their food comes from.
I admire the efficiency of everything, especially the defeatherer. I do have a few questions: 1. Overall how much feed do you go through? How often do you feed them? What is a typical portion size for 100 chickens? 2. How much money can you generally get for one butchered chicken? 3. What's a common sign that something is wrong? For example, how can you tell if they're sick and not worth raising anymore? 4. I notice you generally keep the chickens in a 1ft per chicken area. Does restricting their ability to run around make them taste better? Or if there's more room to run around (let's say, twice the room), does it change the taste/texture/quality of the chicken? 5. How long can you store a butchered chicken in a freezer before it's no longer any good? At what suggested temperature is minimum? I'm asking, because I'm on a mission to become more self sufficient. I'm willing to raise egg laying chickens, but knowing facts about meat chicken is useful (and interesting) too.
I can answer some of this. I've never raise 100 of them so that amount I'm not sure on feed. 1. We were giving 6 birds and half pound per day. 2. Check your local laws on selling raw chicken. Some states allow it with restrictions. Other do not, at all. 3. Same is with any chicken, if they aren't eating, drinking. You will notice they don't move around much though. 4. This is just one of many ways of doing it. You don't have to confine them like this. Some people do, others pasture raise them 5. This would depend on how you package it. Ziplock bags? lol. Couple months. Vacum sealed couple years? I mean I've seen meat in the freezer for 5 years still be good. Not at it's prime but was still edible.
great video and fairly insightful. i was wondering if i could get the blueprints of your chicken coop and your medication and feeding schedule? thanks in advance.
Very cool. Nice work! Have you seen how Joe Salitan (think I spelled his last name wrong...) butchers these birds? I used to toss the tail as well but now I am planning to keep it after watching Joe process these birds. He just cuts off the oil duct and leaves the tail. I've butchered only about 6 birds now and am planning to do more, only this time I am planning to keep the tail! Again, nice video!
Very interesting video but does anyone else think that this took a lot of time, money and effort for what added up to around $500-$600 worth of whole chickens?
This is very true. Probably struck even with all the equipment then pay half market value next round. Good chickens raised on pasture are far better nutritionslly so that's worth the time
The process is still cheaper than buying them at the store but not worth selling unless you are reaching factory levels of production, plus it's more self-sufficient.
Chicken have worst smelling manure imo with pigs being a close second. My parents insisted we clean the duck chicken geese turkey pig pens every single day until of course the birds were in a large open area during the day.
I am amazed at the speed they grow. I have recently began a series of staggered small hatches to hopefully compensate for my own food budget. Im looking at 12 weeks *full grown if Im lucky :) Amazing breed you have. Thankyou for sharing the process.
Thank you for this educational video. You showed class by editing the dispatching of the birds and leaving it to those who need / want to see this part also. The bird plucking machine was awesome. Having plucked a few ducks / geese, I cannot tell you how nice that machine would be to have for doing what you are doing. I had no idea chickens grew so fast. Cleaning did not look difficult, but I imagine 96 took awhile. I assume you lost 10% from some mortality, or did some get left alive? How long can you freeze a chicken, or were you butchering for several families? Thanks again for the educational video. I lie in the city and likely will never dispatch my own, but I do hunt on occasion and like to know how things are done to the efficiency of the dispatch and to get the most from the animal.
Are you kidding? This is RUclips....bulk of dislikes probably is from the slitting and bleed out being edited out and in a age restricted link that also can work as a region lock in some countries At very least IIT left a hole in the instructions and there was people thinking he was dunking a live chicken in hot water to drown it
I actually think the plucker would probably be more traumatic for young kids to watch than the cutting. The cutting's easy to understand & see there's no suffering, for young kids though, the plucker looks like it's alive & flapping around. Who knows & who cares re the dislikes, not worth caring about. Can I ask though, I'm looking at doing my own, but only a few (maybe 10 I think for the first batch anyway) but I don't have a plucker & have no intention of getting one, if the birds are put in the hot water first, is plucking still a drama? I'm thinking the feathers should come out pretty easily after the heating. I know in grandparents days they'd sit there plucking for hours, no idea if they heated first or not, I'm hoping not & heating means the feathers will all come out really easily? I don't mind if it's a bit of work involved, I mostly want to do it so as to experience what it's like to truely produce my own food, so the more involved it is, the more interesting I will find the process (just if I do repeated batches I might start to get sick of it)
Thank you for sharing this. I've been looking fir a detailed video on how to clean chickens lately. I also had no idea that meat chickens would be fully grown so quickly.
Tia....they are not genetically altered. They are a breed that grows quickly. The major chicken producers such as Tyson and others pump theirs full of hormones and can get a fully grown chicken in 47 days. These are raised 100 percent naturally as we possibly can.
Destiny Price 420. You are incorrect. Yes....they were genetically altered through breeding not GMO or chemicals. You know nothing about breeding according to your comments. I know people who breed multiple types of dogs. They don't use chemicals to get different kind of dogs. Your comment about chickens taking 2 years is absolutely absurd.
Have a radio playing low-med volume to help them cope with surounding noises. Will calm them down alot. We play a radio for all our animals if we can for that reason......also weres away some preditors
Just bought a dozen chicks. I raised chickens when my kids were young, just for the eggs. I couldn't kill anything... then. Guess I wanna know what's in my food now.
how long on avg. did it take for the chickens to bleed out? how did long the processing take in total per bird? would it go faster with 10-20 cones and 2 scalders & 2 pluckers as I'm looking at 500 chickens with 4 people. Would like to figure out how long it might take to do 500? tyvm n any input would be welcome
awesome video. where can you get this cornish cross chicken, aren't they branded chicken of the industrial poultry breeders? how many days do you not feed the birds before you butcher them? what's wrong with just cutting right down the chest to take out the internal organs?
Thanks. Esp liked the part where you put the chicken into a concrete mixer to remove the feathers -and leaving the head intact through that process. It's bashed in head was most appealing. Once it's head was bashed in -then you go to all the trouble to remove it as if you hadn't already slit it's throat.....Barbaric way to cull chickens
Why thank you for the sarcastic comment on something you obviously know nothing about. I'm used to dealing with those like you who have low intelligence. You see, tipping a chicken upside down causes the blood to run to it's small brain (like yours) and the chicken almost passes out. It calms it right down. You then slit the throat and it bleeds out with very little trauma. Killing cones are the most humane way to kill chickens. Chopping off the head causes adrenaline to rise in the chickens and infects the meat as well. There is a shock to the chicken. That is why we use killing cones. So there you go....a quick lesson in butchering. I know it's hard to wrap your tiny head around but give it a try you snowflake!
jethro pacifico So it's not cruel to end a living beings life to eat their dead body? I disagree with you. Yes, some animals appear to have better lives than others but does this then make it alright to kill them? Would it be alright to do that to puppies or kittens? Animals are not property, they have their own lives and experience fear and pain like us and our pets do. It is crazy that we live in a culture that says it's ok to kill and eat a chicken or cow but not a cat or dog. Why the difference? It's just a matter of perception and social conditioning. Would you take your children to a slaughterhouse? If not, why not? If you eat eggs you are paying for day old make baby chicks to be minced up alive with no anaesthetic, or suffocated in a bag. Male chickens are no use to the industry so this is how the babies are treated. RUclips 'chicken macerator' and you will see what happens.
jethro Pacific would you like to be killed and eaten? There is no need for humans to kill for food and there is no such thing as humane killing. That is a contradiction in itself
Odin Thorsdad: Not even close to being true. 80% or 90% of us rely on farmers to know how to do this and we in turn supply our services to them. As a young boy growing up in the country I saw a variety of animals being killed, butchered and prepared but I have no idea how to do it properly. Fifty years ago I was a chemist. My schoolmates took up every imaginable vocation. I’ve known only two or three people in my entire life who were experts in animal killing, skinning/de-feathering and preparing for market. I don’t mean to be a pedantic ass, but your assertion seems beyond fanciful to me.
Quirin: I was around 50 years ago and I can tell you very few people knew how to do this. There were millions of people in hundreds of vocations who didn’t know how to do this. The assertion is a ridiculous exaggeration.
Firere: It wasn’t even a useful skill in 1970 (50 years ago) for 99% of the population who weren’t livestock farmers. The 70s weren’t much different from today except that there were somewhat more small farms and fewer people to feed. Still, 99% of the population had no skills in or knowledge of slaughtering and rendering an animal for food. Most of us were educated and skilled in other fields and we relied as always on farmers to feed us. The original poster’s assertion that “everyone” knew how to do it in 1970 is beyond nonsensical.
Not remotely true. if you go to a point in history when most knew how to do this, they didn't have cornish crosses you could raise indoors and slaughter in 7 weeks.
This is how we package them for the freezer: ruclips.net/video/mj2IVdlx2ME/видео.html
Do you guys change the hays or its the same throughout?
@@ioseforaonu4030 the coop gets cleaned weekly with fresh hay.
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I dont like people killing chicks.
I know god put animals down for food but...
It breaks my heart
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Ewan McInerney
(Genesis 9:3-6) “when God tells Noah in the covenant made with him after the Great Flood, "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”
Ewan McInerney Years and years of translations can do things like that to a book tbf
I think watching the entire process helps put the value of chickens and their role in our lives as humans into perspective. We rely heavily on these beautiful birds for daily nutrition and in some cases companionship, but so many people take it for granted with the way they either waste the chicken they buy or criticize others for eating it.
I would personally never eat any chicken that I raise, but I appreciate the farms like this that take good care of the chickens as they raise them. They have a good amount of room, plenty of food and water, and they're cared for all the way up to the butcher. And even at the butcher, it's quick and doesn't make the bird suffer.
Thank you for putting this video up for people to see the process and understand what it takes to put their meal on their table.
Thank you for the awesome comment!!!
When I was 7 years old, I was playing with a chicken in the afternoon in the backyard of my house. During dinner time, I ate fried chicken. After dinner I asked my mom if I could go outside and play with the chicken and there was ackward silence. lol.
Rip.
Loooool
Psycho moment
Crzdbiker Hahaha😀
that’s actually sad
@@icecreamdog AMEN?!
I'm getting 50 Cornish cross in June were excited to do some meat birds it's crazy how fast these grow. At for weeks old they are bigger than my 6 week old layers.
I run mine in mobile coops (chicken tractor) I don't want them sitting in their own manure so they are moved daily the 1st 3 weeks on pasture and twice daily till butcher. It gives them access to different foods grasses, insects, worms which I believe adds flavor and makes for a better life for the chicken. The added benefit is seen in the pasture dark green pasture grass from the manure.
I raise mine with other layers and let them free range to be more active. I feed corn meal with their chick feed and add oyster shell powder for strong bones since they grow so fast. I also only butcher a few at a time and get 8-12lb birds at the end. The better conditioned hens I keep and breed with some success now. This indoor way is much more expensive
@@uprightfossil6673 I have way to many predator issues to free range. Wish I could for the quality of life for the chicken. But I don't think free range meat birds gain weight as fast as confined birds.
@@kevind3185 guard goose for aerial predators, ir sensor triggered flashing lights for coyotes.
@@kevind3185 or you can put them in chicken tractors like the ones joel salatin preaches about.
@@subuktageenfarooqi5712 I run them in chicken tractors with electric hot wire Works good.
I'm a young poultry farmer only 32 yrs old and rearing chickens is my life I love what I do
I want a life like this, very simple and the farm is amazing, plus you get to eat a fried chicken everyday
Fried chicken is not safe for daily consumption
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Thanks for editing it out for some people that dont wanna watch the killing.
Just took 22 to the butcher today. Avg weight 12 lbs with many pushing 15. So glad they're gone. Raise em every year for 35 years. Best tasting chickens I ever ate. Super Cornish X-rocks. Great birds. How you process 100+ is beyond me ! God bless you !
What a process, much respect for all the farmers and butchers who do this so all of us millions of people can eat
I think it's a shame that the butchering video was age-restricted I think it's important that people see and understand where all the food comes from
I agree. RUclips is starting to lose their minds.
Exactly. I agree with u.
If u got this far in the video then you already saw where they came from.
The butchering process is just butchering that's it and has nothing to do with where the chickens being butchered came from.🙄
I'm sure u can find a video on Utube somewhere or perhaps the dark web but i'm not certain the butchering video is
actually what u say
"age restricted".
Keep watching even when it pauses it'll restart itself and then u can watch since it's so important to you. Duh!
Shhh. The vegans will be here if you do that. Hehe
I seed some chicks die 😱👎😭😭😭
Nice video! We have raised chickens for about 14 years. Hatching and eating eggs. I have finally talked my wife into raising some the freezer. We eat everything else but the goats!
Well done guys. I am starting butchuring tomorrow so I just thought a refresher would be nice. Thanks for the information.... Take care...
We just butchered 31 yesterday. If you're interested in how we package them up here is a quick video I did yesterday. Good luck to you my friend! ruclips.net/video/mj2IVdlx2ME/видео.html
In the 1950's..we raised 300. The same way..but our chickens also had a outside pen to run and scratch in. Raising your own food on the farm is the only way to have good,quality products for the family dining table. It also shows the children things they will not learn in school. Good video..great job..!!!
God Bless you and your farm family....
We have a large pen as well. Thank you for the kind words sir! God bless you my friend!
How much land did you use to raise 300 chickens ?
@@bruntbrunette4819 3 times the video, at least, the more the better for the hens...
As a hobby grower, I completely agree. I’ve grown my own tomato plants, and even some pepper plants and it’s safe to say that home grown tomatoes are WAY better than store bought ones.
Really like your system. The whole time I’m thinking how much work it would be to butcher 100 chickens but that system didn’t seem to bad, and quality family time.
What a great series for new homesteaders to learn, thank you!
Awesome job Mr, so nice to see the family and friends involved.
Thanks for sharing
I learned how to kill meat chickens when I was around 8 or 9. The chicken that we raised tasted far better than ones from the supermarket!
mass produced chicken farms dont treat em properly, so they end up tasting bad
Ayla S. That is why we grow our own 45 day chickens. But we breast out, a lot simpler than this process..
Thank you for giving the option of an edited vs unedited version. In my case, I just can't see blood. I couldn't even watch my own finger getting sewed after breaking it last year (actually forgot to ask how many stitches were used).
Also, kudos for using two quick humane strikes instead of the old traditional neck break.
Thank you for the kind words!
Thank you for that. My family eats a lot of chicken as it is a very healthy and protein rich food source. Chickens are a renewable food source and we are thankful for good folks like yourselves who make it available for the masses. We also enjoy our "farmed" catfish which is also a renewable food source. Thanks again.
When I was a kid, I was the plucker. Thanks for sharing.
when you were a teen you were a chicken choker.
I’m here because my grocery store is out of chicken.
bahahahaha
maan I ordered 55 a month ago when i saw where all this shit was headed. got another 60 coming in august and got another freezer.
VaranusVideos Lucky! My freezer is now full since I stocked up on about 25 lbs of chicken. Now I need to rearrange things in there so it all fits.
Really nice video guy. There is nothing better than a fresh chicken soup. With all the vegetables in it.
Thank you for showing me all I've ever wanted to know about how to clean a chicken from start to finish.
I have 8 meat chickens coming in a month (we live in a town where you can have up to 11) and getting ready to build the outdoor mobile coop. I'm excited but also apprehensive; these are living things after all and it's a big responsibility; we can't just take a vacation and leave them alone for a week. Plus, there are all sorts of predators wandering through our yard at night -- 'coons, possums, foxes, cats... so it's got to be secure, and I'm working on getting a dog pretty soon, too. Thanks for the video - that's quite the production, 96 chickens processed in one day!
These chickens learned a painful life lesson... No such thing as a free lunch😁
Go ungry
how much feed we need for 100 chickens in kg means day old chicks to week 7 chicken
How many bags of feed did you use in total after the initial starter grower?Would appreciate your timely response.Thank you..
8 months later... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love your barn set up. How big is the barn? I would love to make something similar. Thanks.
This was a great video. From one family farm to yours, Thank you!
Best no BS chicken video without any actors or other I've viewed to date Lol
I get 100 chicks tomorrow and ten turkeys with a back room ready for them sort of.
Hope I do as well as You and feel a bit better after watching this (stressed ), Many Thanks.
Keep on growing in the Free World.
Cheers and Peace Out
6:23 kinda ominous with all them at the door like that, they planning some kinda riot
Only people with guilty minds think that way. If you have done nothing to have revenge exacted upon you then you have nothing to worry about.
Can I ask, why they are placed in cold water first after they are butchered, and then packed. We raise at home but we do not butcher ourselves. Our butchering shops do not do that process first before packing.
Wow.. You guys are really amazing.. I was amazed when you cut the video.. You are really awesome.. That was a good moral respect for the viewers and to the chicken as well may God bless you and your family on that showing good..
hello, new to your channel. This is very interesting, I'm learning alot about meat chickens
Hello! Nice to "meet" you! 😁
WHEN THAT MACHINE STARTED GOING, I THOUGHT CHICKEN WAS STILL ALIVE AND STARTED TO MOVE CAUSE IM AN IDIOT
You think it's a fish or something.
This the best video for showing the way small batches of chickens are prepared. As a kid my job was to take the gizzards apart
From small and cute to big and tasty. Always interesting to see how your food comes to be.
Do ur chickens go outside at all? How often do u clean ur coop? Can u explain this system a little bit? I'm getting ready to start meat chicken.
As any farmer will say never get attached to your farm animals, because you'll never want to kill them for food consumption or product. You have to go in with the mindset that these animals are here to make you money for your livelihood. not to raise as personal pets.
Yeah, I think it's called "empathy" or something.
That happens to my girls ( wife and daughters ) so often 😆
Hi
Can I raise broilers of different ages in cages placed adjacent to each other ???
nice video love it. Here in Jamaica we keep them for only six weeks! we can also start butchering from 5 weeks! we will get like 3-6 lbs per bird.
How do you get them to be up to 3lbs and above ,do you give them a growth boaster if yes what kind ?,please reply thank you
what can i do to remove feathers without a plucker?
Our plucker usually does better if we run two chickens at once. Three seems to be too many and one, to few. Do you know if that's the same with yours?
joedecook Ours works good with 1 or 2 but 3 doesn't work that great. Love the plucked! Thanks for watching my friend!
Hi,what’s the. Measurement of the coop,plz?
Thank you very much for sharing this video. You have done great job raising the chickens and butchering them as well. Sustainable it sure is.
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Wow, you got me thinking about meat birds now
You will love doing it!
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Same! Been thinking about it for a while.
@@Bizarro2024 No one's spelling or word usage was false. You started your sentence with a small letter instead of capitalizing it.
@@michelleevans5531 Apparently the Person I was addressing to has since deleted their comment which most likely had very bad usage of grammar as well as potential vulgarity and rudeness. I can't even remember this discussion to be honest. I hope my Capital Letter has made you happy! Have a nice day.
@ cook family awesome video.I would like to know where can one obtain the machine that cleans the feathers thnx.
Great video! It's amazing to see how quickly they grow in only 8 weeks! I live in Liberia and am working to get some fertilized eggs brought over in someone's luggage to raise a couple different dual-purpose breeds. I'll definitely revisit this video when I'm preparing to butcher the extra roosters.
You can't get chickens in Liberia?!?
Jon, at the time I wrote this (2 years ago), finding good quality stock was very difficult. Our only real option was the local “country chicken” which lays small eggs and produces a small, lean carcass.
Fortunately, recently I located an NGO that sells Rhode Island Reds for layers and some type of white Leghorn cross for meat birds. I had a bunch ordered, but then COVID-19 hit Liberia and we are in lock down until June.
@@africanhomestead very interesting! Thank you for the reply😎 I hope this virus nonsense is over with sooner rather than later. Best of luck to you💖
@@africanhomestead I was going to say, surely NGO's should be doing something about that! If they're serious about addressing global hunger issues, that's a really obvious place to start!
I regularly do microloans with k iva & I always try to target programs like this with my money, cause it's the best way to really make a long term impact. Could be a good resourse to see what other NGO's are working somewhere near you with forward thinking programs too, if you need more, so glad you've got at least one doing the right thing there though. Stuff like this shouldn't be hard! We all need to do everything we can to make this sort of stuff accessible to all!
What a great memory vlog. I grew up in the 70's on my grandparents farm. They had eight children and would share in the chicken harvest even though they all didn't contribute labor. I was the youngest so my job was to cross the wings and hold the chicken on the wooden block between two nails. After my Uncle wacked of its head this six yr old held on for dear life until it quit flopping and I took it to my Aunt for scaulding and so on
You're taking good care of thoses chickens. I understand vegans dislike the mass meat production in the industrial way. But here you're clearly doing it in a human and caring way.
Idk why so many dislikes. What're they expecting people? Ban meat?
Thank you for the comment! Appreciate it.
People dont realize that most of the fertilizer that is used to grow plants come from farm animals like cows
@stop eating animals No thanks. We are not chickens.
@@wade5941 Humans have been eating birds longer than they've been able to draw pictures of them on cave walls. Accept your humanity. Your denial is more seriously unhealthy than any disease.
@@pmessinger 🤣 doctor in the building
is it possible to get the blueprints of your chicken coop and your medication and feeding schedules. i am really interested in broiler chickens
why am i even watching this i have 10 chickens at home but im not gonna butcher them
I have 10 too not meat
Emabee 123
I raise mine for eggs...but I just butchered a few extra roosters....were not females as claimed.
The breed (silver laced Wyeonna(?) can be for meat, but are best as "soup chickens".
A little tougher and leaner, but more flavable.
I raised a few cornish cross (meat bird like in grocery store) last year.
One died of heat stroke, one the other 2 nearly pecked to death (so I ended his misery), and I separated from the others the last 2 for a few weeks till I butchered them near thanks giving (could barely stand due to weight).
The biggest was almost 8 lbs, and I decided to cook him like a turkey for Thanksgiving.
BEST DAMN CHICKEN I EVER HAD!
Mine got to run around a be free range and you could taste the difference!
i only have one rooster which my hatchery claimed all of them to be hens.... NOT
I only have one chicken, and I only choke it every now and then..
sstowntt Stow, WHAT?!?!?!
On which website did you'll buy the chicks I would really appreciate it if you would tell me
Thanks i learned alot.
Good catfishing bait
I'm having my children watch these types of videos; so they know where food comes from and that it's not from some magical Disney wizard with a wand. As with anything that yields great results, work and dedication are a must and your video shows these too. Very informational and THANK YOU for this.
Really? Sure, have them learn but at least let them be entertained by something, instead of having them learn all life.
@@Flrere That's correct and I agree...sometimes it's a thin line..
awesome video , well done I have a small chicken coop for 10 chickens only today I have 15 hoping will be enough space. it is 10X5 ..
Vegans:
"Poor chickens You Monsters!!"
The Hound :
"I'm gonna have to eat every f*&king chicken in that coop."
Nice video but you need to do this every month. I'm a one (women) man band with a pen a month. 24 in each pen, ducks, geese, pheasants, quail, chickens, Guineas, Cornish, I myself butcher 24 in one day by myself. Do it 4 years and the job is finished by the time my kids were home from school. It's all in the set up. On weekends when my girls were helping me we could do 120 quail in 20 min. Another note.... My girls knew everything raised went in the freezer and summer months they kicked in since they were 5 years old. They raise and butcher there own today.... A great life lesson. Bummer you throw out the tail.. My husbands favorite part.. It's the tenderest part of the meat besides the tenderloin. Great video and I only wish more people would raise their own.... Blessings to you all.
And here I am eating a chicken salad sandwich while watching yummy in my tummy 😋
Shut the fuck up
We did this last year. Our chooks were outside after 3.5 weeks. Culled at 8 weeks. They were a decent size and active. Fed on high protein feed as well as scraps, lettuce etc all free from the market. No poo underneath where normally they would just sit in it. We took the food off them at night otherwise they just eat and eat. No bad legs either. But the pop was the problem. Not like egg chickens at all. Would I do it again, yes. Better meat to be honest. But only in winter because of the flies are a huge problem in the warmer times.
Watching a butchering video: This is inhumane
Buying mass produced, gmo chicken: this is normal
I know...right?
JR: There is no such thing as a GMO chicken.
@@KB4QAA you’re right my mistake. But they’ve been selectively bred to be so fat they fall over. Either way much of the nutrients are diminished and few people question where their food comes from.
Thank you-a very instructive video. We’re gonna try it! Best video on the subject I’ve found.
Thank you! Your comment is a blessing.
I admire the efficiency of everything, especially the defeatherer. I do have a few questions:
1. Overall how much feed do you go through? How often do you feed them? What is a typical portion size for 100 chickens?
2. How much money can you generally get for one butchered chicken?
3. What's a common sign that something is wrong? For example, how can you tell if they're sick and not worth raising anymore?
4. I notice you generally keep the chickens in a 1ft per chicken area. Does restricting their ability to run around make them taste better? Or if there's more room to run around (let's say, twice the room), does it change the taste/texture/quality of the chicken?
5. How long can you store a butchered chicken in a freezer before it's no longer any good? At what suggested temperature is minimum?
I'm asking, because I'm on a mission to become more self sufficient. I'm willing to raise egg laying chickens, but knowing facts about meat chicken is useful (and interesting) too.
I can answer some of this. I've never raise 100 of them so that amount I'm not sure on feed.
1. We were giving 6 birds and half pound per day.
2. Check your local laws on selling raw chicken. Some states allow it with restrictions. Other do not, at all.
3. Same is with any chicken, if they aren't eating, drinking. You will notice they don't move around much though.
4. This is just one of many ways of doing it. You don't have to confine them like this. Some people do, others pasture raise them
5. This would depend on how you package it. Ziplock bags? lol. Couple months. Vacum sealed couple years? I mean I've seen meat in the freezer for 5 years still be good.
Not at it's prime but was still edible.
@@TherapyRange Thank you
great video and fairly insightful.
i was wondering if i could get the blueprints of your chicken coop and your medication and feeding schedule? thanks in advance.
everyone else:lets cook our big chickens!
Me: except for my chicken cause i love them
Same Im a chicken lover 😍😢
@@vintchxcreamz4382 but the problem is my chickens is dying suffering in cold day
@@bluetowel-reko aww so sorry
Very cool. Nice work! Have you seen how Joe Salitan (think I spelled his last name wrong...) butchers these birds? I used to toss the tail as well but now I am planning to keep it after watching Joe process these birds. He just cuts off the oil duct and leaves the tail. I've butchered only about 6 birds now and am planning to do more, only this time I am planning to keep the tail! Again, nice video!
Oh boy do I want a delicious trademarked KFC bucket meal with two sides for only $20!
Pls sir how do one get a pluckker machine
Farmer: How does it taste like?
Me: Yes!
For feathers removal what king of machine you have? If you don’t mind could you write me model? Thanks a Lot.
Very interesting video but does anyone else think that this took a lot of time, money and effort for what added up to around $500-$600 worth of whole chickens?
This is very true. Probably struck even with all the equipment then pay half market value next round. Good chickens raised on pasture are far better nutritionslly so that's worth the time
Don't know how much he's selling, but you can buy these chicks $1.5/each + $2 food. So very quickly you make the money back + some free meat.
The process is still cheaper than buying them at the store but not worth selling unless you are reaching factory levels of production, plus it's more self-sufficient.
Does anyone know the total yield per cleaned chicken in pounds?
My boss raises chickens and I went up once to help with the butchering process. It was interesting, but smelled so bad.
Chicken have worst smelling manure imo with pigs being a close second. My parents insisted we clean the duck chicken geese turkey pig pens every single day until of course the birds were in a large open area during the day.
I am amazed at the speed they grow. I have recently began a series of staggered small hatches to hopefully compensate for my own food budget. Im looking at 12 weeks *full grown if Im lucky :) Amazing breed you have. Thankyou for sharing the process.
Thank you for this educational video. You showed class by editing the dispatching of the birds and leaving it to those who need / want to see this part also.
The bird plucking machine was awesome. Having plucked a few ducks / geese, I cannot tell you how nice that machine would be to have for doing what you are doing.
I had no idea chickens grew so fast.
Cleaning did not look difficult, but I imagine 96 took awhile. I assume you lost 10% from some mortality, or did some get left alive?
How long can you freeze a chicken, or were you butchering for several families?
Thanks again for the educational video. I lie in the city and likely will never dispatch my own, but I do hunt on occasion and like to know how things are done to the efficiency of the dispatch and to get the most from the animal.
Are you kidding?
This is RUclips....bulk of dislikes probably is from the slitting and bleed out being edited out and in a age restricted link that also can work as a region lock in some countries
At very least IIT left a hole in the instructions and there was people thinking he was dunking a live chicken in hot water to drown it
I actually think the plucker would probably be more traumatic for young kids to watch than the cutting. The cutting's easy to understand & see there's no suffering, for young kids though, the plucker looks like it's alive & flapping around. Who knows & who cares re the dislikes, not worth caring about. Can I ask though, I'm looking at doing my own, but only a few (maybe 10 I think for the first batch anyway) but I don't have a plucker & have no intention of getting one, if the birds are put in the hot water first, is plucking still a drama? I'm thinking the feathers should come out pretty easily after the heating. I know in grandparents days they'd sit there plucking for hours, no idea if they heated first or not, I'm hoping not & heating means the feathers will all come out really easily?
I don't mind if it's a bit of work involved, I mostly want to do it so as to experience what it's like to truely produce my own food, so the more involved it is, the more interesting I will find the process (just if I do repeated batches I might start to get sick of it)
What would you say is the overall price of raising meat chickens and all the equipment needed to butcher?
I have a video on the cost. It was about $8 per chicken this year.
Thank you for sharing this. I've been looking fir a detailed video on how to clean chickens lately. I also had no idea that meat chickens would be fully grown so quickly.
Natalie Cartier. Thanks for watching! God bless!
It's because they're so genetically altered.
Tia....they are not genetically altered. They are a breed that grows quickly. The major chicken producers such as Tyson and others pump theirs full of hormones and can get a fully grown chicken in 47 days. These are raised 100 percent naturally as we possibly can.
Destiny Price 420. You are incorrect. Yes....they were genetically altered through breeding not GMO or chemicals. You know nothing about breeding according to your comments. I know people who breed multiple types of dogs. They don't use chemicals to get different kind of dogs. Your comment about chickens taking 2 years is absolutely absurd.
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Great 👍 job my brother, really hard days work mn great video too top it off
Are these chickens all male or female, or is it mixed?
Bob Voorneveld No...mixed.
theyre bruce jenner bro
They cant be only one gender if theres more than 100
It may be mixed but the roosters are bigger and are meaty so he should raise roosters, but could have hens for the roosters to be happy
How much is the de-feathering machine?
Have a radio playing low-med volume to help them cope with surounding noises. Will calm them down alot. We play a radio for all our animals if we can for that reason......also weres away some preditors
Thanks for the info!
hi. any suggestion for the music?
sunshine reyes anything works for our birds
Some predators....
Lovely I'm planning to rare my own chicken very soon, so happy that I found this video.....
Just bought a dozen chicks. I raised chickens when my kids were young, just for the eggs. I couldn't kill anything... then.
Guess I wanna know what's in my food now.
Do you keep adding the hay throughout the entire 8 weeks or remove the old hay and replace it, intervals.
Changed weekly.
2:54 Like little chicken nuggets warmed under a heat lamp.
Love it!
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@@Bongobin checkovs gun??
how long on avg. did it take for the chickens to bleed out? how did long the processing take in total per bird? would it go faster with 10-20 cones and 2 scalders & 2 pluckers as I'm looking at 500 chickens with 4 people. Would like to figure out how long it might take to do 500? tyvm n
any input would be welcome
You did the procedure perfectly it's 💯% and you got this 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
awesome video. where can you get this cornish cross chicken, aren't they branded chicken of the industrial poultry breeders? how many days do you not feed the birds before you butcher them? what's wrong with just cutting right down the chest to take out the internal organs?
Thanks for sharing! I'm adding this to my watch later list so I can watch it again.
Sandy's Travel & Gardening Adventures Thanks for watching!
Thanks. Esp liked the part where you put the chicken into a concrete mixer to remove the feathers -and leaving the head intact through that process. It's bashed in head was most appealing. Once it's head was bashed in -then you go to all the trouble to remove it as if you hadn't already slit it's throat.....Barbaric way to cull chickens
Why thank you for the sarcastic comment on something you obviously know nothing about. I'm used to dealing with those like you who have low intelligence.
You see, tipping a chicken upside down causes the blood to run to it's small brain (like yours) and the chicken almost passes out. It calms it right down. You then slit the throat and it bleeds out with very little trauma.
Killing cones are the most humane way to kill chickens. Chopping off the head causes adrenaline to rise in the chickens and infects the meat as well. There is a shock to the chicken. That is why we use killing cones.
So there you go....a quick lesson in butchering. I know it's hard to wrap your tiny head around but give it a try you snowflake!
some vegans should see that, so they they will know not all chicken farming is cruel like the one they see on big farms
jethro pacifico. Agree...thanks for the comment!
jethro pacifico They dont care, they hate all animal slaughter. Remember their slogan "its not food, its violence.".
jethro pacifico
So it's not cruel to end a living beings life to eat their dead body? I disagree with you.
Yes, some animals appear to have better lives than others but does this then make it alright to kill them?
Would it be alright to do that to puppies or kittens?
Animals are not property, they have their own lives and experience fear and pain like us and our pets do.
It is crazy that we live in a culture that says it's ok to kill and eat a chicken or cow but not a cat or dog. Why the difference? It's just a matter of perception and social conditioning.
Would you take your children to a slaughterhouse? If not, why not?
If you eat eggs you are paying for day old make baby chicks to be minced up alive with no anaesthetic, or suffocated in a bag. Male chickens are no use to the industry so this is how the babies are treated. RUclips 'chicken macerator' and you will see what happens.
jethro Pacific would you like to be killed and eaten? There is no need for humans to kill for food and there is no such thing as humane killing. That is a contradiction in itself
jethro pacifico killing for unneccesary and selfish reasons in itself is a problem , no matter how nice you treat someone before you kill him/her.
What do you end up paying per chicken by the time theyre processed?
Maybe more folks should grow up on a farm show what real life is like maybe it would be a lot less fake life we plucked ours without a machine
1.What is the type of light ur using
2.how much were the chicks when ordered
how much grain did u spend on the feed
Can you tell us where to purchase that Plucker that you have there looks like a great one etc
You can get them at any feed store or online. I have been looking at them recently and there is one made in the USA that actually has a warranty.
How often do we have to clean their place ? I am just curious because I some broilers too and it's really smelly.
We clean it once a week. But they have a large outdoor pen that they spend a lot of their day out in.
@@TheCookFamilyHomestead thank you.
Everyone 50 years ago knew how to do this.
Odin Thorsdad: Not even close to being true. 80% or 90% of us rely on farmers to know how to do this and we in turn supply our services to them. As a young boy growing up in the country I saw a variety of animals being killed, butchered and prepared but I have no idea how to do it properly. Fifty years ago I was a chemist. My schoolmates took up every imaginable vocation. I’ve known only two or three people in my entire life who were experts in animal killing, skinning/de-feathering and preparing for market. I don’t mean to be a pedantic ass, but your assertion seems beyond fanciful to me.
Quirin: I was around 50 years ago and I can tell you very few people knew how to do this. There were millions of people in hundreds of vocations who didn’t know how to do this. The assertion is a ridiculous exaggeration.
Yeah, because it was a useful skill back then. However, we don't require it anymore. Also, ok boomer
Firere: It wasn’t even a useful skill in 1970 (50 years ago) for 99% of the population who weren’t livestock farmers. The 70s weren’t much different from today except that there were somewhat more small farms and fewer people to feed. Still, 99% of the population had no skills in or knowledge of slaughtering and rendering an animal for food. Most of us were educated and skilled in other fields and we relied as always on farmers to feed us. The original poster’s assertion that “everyone” knew how to do it in 1970 is beyond nonsensical.
Not remotely true. if you go to a point in history when most knew how to do this, they didn't have cornish crosses you could raise indoors and slaughter in 7 weeks.
Can you post the place you bought the chicks from???