Excellent video! I've seen a lot of chicken processing videos but have never seen one that talks about cleaning the equipment and which items need what type of cleaning. Very, very good of you to recognize the need for this information to be available to folks who process their own birds. Thank you. Love your channel. I'm a big fan.
Those chickens are HUGE! 😮 So glad to see Callie and the bulls being so friendly. Love your videos! And don’t be so hard on yourself, man! You do amazing work!
It's an all family event for sure, including the chicken dinner afterwards! Besides, the children need to learn why they say "Running around like a chicken with its head cut off!
That chicken plucker is handy as hell...if you can hit up a scrap yard grab a drum from an old washing machine to screw the plucker fingers into...saves drilling holes in that tub like Tyler has. As an added bonus you can set up the center spinning area with fingers as well on. And it already has a motor and pullies with belts as well. With some simple changes to slow the speed down it easily converts to a chicken/turkey plucker.
Very interesting, Tyler !! There's obviously more to preparing chickens for the freezer than I thought !! Well, that's a 'city slicker' for you !! Ha, Ha !!
Another interesting day on FTR! Don't be self-critical about what you were able to achieve in a single day. You accomplish more in one of your work days than most people do in a week! You've got a big fan here in Melbourne, Australia.
Yes.... Tyler, stop being so self-critical - you get more "stuff" done in a single day than most people do in a day !! You're a hard worker and it shows, Buddy !!
I do about 50 every year in a little over a half a day basically alone. It got a lot quicker when I added a second cone. As I'm bringing the pot up to temp, I'm killing 4 chickens and by the time they're ready to be scalded the pot is usually up to temp. So I do them all in batches of 4 or 5 so I only have to bring the pot up to temp 10 or so times instead of 50 or whatever. We basically have the same setup.
when I was a child growing up on the farm we harvested about 100 chickens every fall with none of the tools you use today me and my dad and sister had them all done on a Sat an all day chore..... but it was a really productive day we would have had more time to swim had we had some of your tools
i wonder if a Thermal Immersion Circulator would work. kinda like a sous-vide machine. you just put it in a container of water and it keeps the temp regulated at whatever you set it to. Might be worth potentially looking into if this is a consistent part of your farm. never fun to have to babysit a water pot lol. those chicks got so big so quick! they look amazing.
Did you see how friendly Callie was to the cows ? She stood there and let the cows lick her. Callies face was turned toward the cows and she let the cows lick her with a smile on her face. She's so SWEET what a great dog Callie is ❣️ Well.. that was an experience Mr Tyler I've never seen a chicken go through that process before. I learned a few things from watching this video. Thanks for sharing with us, see you in the next video Tyler Family😃👍🏼🎉
Good Afternoon, Tyler and Callie! Harvesting The Chicken! Cone! Fryer! Pucker! Table! Coolers! Ice Bath! Last: Freezer! Chicken Pucker is Working Great! Great Learning Experience Video! Big Chicken! Callie and The Two Bulls are becoming Friends! Great Video! Thank-you! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You really did a good job with the chickens, Farmer Tyler ! We always had 2 people working on the chickens. For the rest of them, get another person to help you. Those chickens were whoppers ! WOW ! Beautiful breasted and plenty of meat ! Callie and the bulls get along well...giving each other kissies ! Haha ! Thanks for sharing your excellent video, FT ! 😊😊👍🐈🐔
I remember very vividly a tree stump and an axe, a big hot pot of water to put the beheaded bird in to get the feathers of, plucking off the feathers inculding the pin feathers, not a great memory but a very clear one, Sure enjoyed the chicken though. You have a better operation by far !! Love that you made your own chicken plucker
If you can do it out doors is the only way to do it....I've done after dispatching the chicken then bring it in the kitchen...the smell of the birds made me sick...so in the future all will be done outside.
My suggestion is 2 scalders & , kill 4 , drip 4 scald 4 while scaling their should be 4 hanging dripping. Take the after u scald put in ice bath ,cont until u have all done then pull one out & gut & repeat clean up put back on ice until you have all done you can at this point finish or let sit on ice until the next day ( lots of people like it better doing this takes out the rigamortis they say) then take out dry bag then shrink tag and weigh. It's saves time doing one step at a time also get friends to help for a couple chickens . So More cones , an other scalder or better one , plastic barrels or Bigger or more coolers freeze water bottles / milk bottles for ice so your not spending a ton on ice . Of course this is my suggestion from doing chickens for 6 years or so . Great job Todd
I remember when 25 chickens in a day was fabulous, with 4 adults, including grandparents and two young teens. But, back then, we only had a couple of 10 finger chicken pluckers. Thanks for the videos.
@@gailrowland1672 thank you, I fixed it.....I usually check my spelling but this time I was so curious about the setup to home done chicken processing that I wasn't focused on spelling......😊
Those chickens are huge! They seem a lot larger than the previous batch of chickens that you harvested, at least to my memory, and that difference in size would explain the difference in time utilizing your equipment. Your scalding pot and the chicken plucker could both be affected by the size of bird. We utilize a turkey fryer to scald the chickens. The pot looks to be larger than what you’re utilizing, and it allows us to mount a temp. gauge on it to measure the water temperature. Loved seeing the interaction between the bulls and Callie. They seem to comfortable around her, and Callie seems to be comfortable around them.
As a teen, my family butchered 183-chickens, 1-turkey, 2-geese, and 3-ducks. It took us two of the longest days of my life with the six of us working together. A home made plucker that didn’t work that well really slowed us down as we had to finish cleaning away the pin feathers by had. It was the pits, and I am pleased when I see someone willing to take the time to do it right, no matter how hard, or long it takes.
Haha Iwas raised on an Eastern KS dirt farm, those were the days my friend! We kids took broom sticks put the chicken under it, pulled its head off and watched them like ten at a time jumping around...like," a chicken with out its head on!" then we had all the buckets with hot water we didnt have running water and we had an outhouse. So we had two tubs set up for butchering. After they were almost done ..they were taken in the house on the range top, propane we burned the tiny feathers all off then they were put in the white butcher paper taken to the local mercantile store where my parents rented lockers to put them in. You got it easy...was fun watching again...but I know that chicken taste soooooooo good compared to what I have to eat from the store!
I grew up on a little farm where part of the income was selling meat chickens. Me my aunt and my uncle could butcher, clean, package and freeze 35 or 40 in a day. So I would say 1 guy doing 10 or so is pretty good.
Wow! Those looked like so nice big chickens! You needed at least one other person to help you though. That was a big job alone. You amaze me that you can engineer any tool or machine you need. Genius!
Indeed those chickens got big!! A lot of work for a solo processor. I'm sure you will figure out a way to streamline it. Doing it once a year always makes the start up slow. You'll figure it out. Good post!
When you get a pin hole in a metal container think golf tee. Get a piece of wood and shape it like a golf tee and tap it in the hole until tight. The wood will swell from the liquid and stay sealed for a good temporary fix. I used to haul petroleum tankers and I always carried a half dozen golf tees in the cab of the truck.
We switched to a stainless steel brewers pot. From an aluminum fryer pot. Seems to hold temperature a lot better. I feel the aluminum one dissipates the heat faster.
That was a interesting video I’ve never even heard of a chicken plucker. We always did it by hand. Was a whole family event. Never by ourselves. Where is your help? You are doing very good by yourself.
Perhaps you can consider using an immersion circulator or ‘sous vide’ machine for the scalding pot situation. Those are meant to maintain water at a precise temperature and you can use however big a tank with a couple machines on each side or something. Or a thermalizer? Just some friendly suggestions! Love the videos!
I think that the best you might do is ten minutes per chicken. You could be faster than this by increasing your manpower. The constraints are probably manpower, scalding, and chicken plucker. Having said all that, I think you were doing pretty well. Congratulations! And those chickens seem to be about as big as a small turkey.
Nice work. That's about how it always goes for me. I think I will be able to get so much done, then your lucky if you even get half of it done 😂😂. I guess that's just life though. Keep it up.
You could think about making a DIY Coleman Cooler Mash Tun for your scalding pot. A lot of home brewers make/use them. They maintain the heat better than a metal pot sitting in the wind. A lot of RUclips vids on the process.
I’d certainly buy one of those beautiful chickens if I could. They look terrific. I love how you don’t just head to the store and buy new equipment. Such an admirable approach to life!
An old hot electric hot water heater with the top cut off works good. You can put a 30a cord end to plug it into a standard dryer outlet. Then you just put a makeshift grate in the bottom to keep the chickens from touching the element, and finish the top with some sheet metal where you cut the top off. Holds at 145 pretty close with one element.
As a non-farm guy, I've done chicken processing before with several people working the birds. Me & another guy used the sharp knives & others worked the other stations. I found the whole process quite interesting. BTW... Looks like your beard is growing feathers!😇
Another great video - brought back memories of doing that years ago - although we used two nails driven into a stump - axe. Callie is quite the dog. Thanks for sharing.
Stop 🛑 being so hard on yourself., You are a one man Job., I didn’t know those Chickens would get that Big so fast so I Guess we can eat them now, Wish I had some of your Chicken because Food taste horrible and I am tried of eating it myself., Thanks for sharing again Tyler 5-2-2023👍🏽👍🏽
Before you twist tie the bag, dip the bag in a bucket of cold water; this will get most of the air out of the bag. Then dip in the hot water to shrink. 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔
Those looked like small turkeys in the package Tyler. Maybe it's just me. Getting a thermostat on that dip tank would probably help a lot. Wish I could help you out but that's not my line of expertise. Callie with the bulls was COOL! Just gotta love animals man. Love your channel. Thanks for another great video. 👍
If your turkey fryer came with one of those metallic baskets that is slightly smaller than the fryer, I started using that to dunk the chickens. That way I could hold the handle and not get splashed when the whole bird went under.
You definitely need more than just yourself doing all the work. Forever ago, it used to be my mom, dad and me. Couldn’t imagine doing all the jobs required by yourself….after awhile it becomes too much/overwhelming.
Wow, I think you did quite well. Here is a suggestion for a scolding pot,a friend of mine said he cut a gas water heater in half and used the bottom half, which has the burner and regulator in it, I am sure it was a old style that didn't have all the safety switches on it, I never seen it but he said it worked very well
From my distilling days I used a modified 2000watt electric hotplate to hold constant temp on my still. It’s a fairly easy modification by removing the heat cut off switch and adding a rheostat on the hotplate you set temp once and it will remain constant with out fluctuations in temp.
We have local Amish that butcher chickens. My brother and I dropped of 60 birds. They told us to come back in an hour. Of course they have more than one person working. But its amazing how fast they can do it. And for about $1.50 a bird.
Good job you’re pace will get it done and if it takes a little longer so be it. At least your not having to do thousands of birds. You might want to start on a more sturdy version of the plucker and if you do upgrade maybe make it large and sturdy enough to do Turkeys as well. Happy farmings
Those look like nice and plump hens!!! There's lots of good eatin' there. Doing it all by yourself is a huge undertaking. They sure will be tasty when Mrs. FTR cooks them!🍗
I use a water heater element with really good success. I have found it works alot better to get the water to temp with the turkey cooker then just maintain the temp with the water heater. Just what works for us!
Big chickens! I remember my Mom and Dad butchering chickens back in the day. It was an all day chore!
Excellent video! I've seen a lot of chicken processing videos but have never seen one that talks about cleaning the equipment and which items need what type of cleaning. Very, very good of you to recognize the need for this information to be available to folks who process their own birds. Thank you. Love your channel. I'm a big fan.
Those chickens are HUGE! 😮 So glad to see Callie and the bulls being so friendly. Love your videos! And don’t be so hard on yourself, man! You do amazing work!
Wow, seems like it was just last week when you bought them. They grow so fast
That's what I was thinking
Yeah, I was thinking that too and it's just proof that time flies!!
@@redmapleleaf4617 exactly 💯
Looks like its more than a one person operation. Love the dog in the videos. I always enjoy coming along and watching.
It's an all family event for sure, including the chicken dinner afterwards! Besides, the children need to learn why they say "Running around like a chicken with its head cut off!
That chicken plucker is handy as hell...if you can hit up a scrap yard grab a drum from an old washing machine to screw the plucker fingers into...saves drilling holes in that tub like Tyler has. As an added bonus you can set up the center spinning area with fingers as well on. And it already has a motor and pullies with belts as well. With some simple changes to slow the speed down it easily converts to a chicken/turkey plucker.
That scalder is the 2nd biggest element in butcher day. The reason why we finally broke down and got the automatic scalder
Very interesting, Tyler !! There's obviously more to preparing chickens for the freezer than I thought !! Well, that's a 'city slicker' for you !! Ha, Ha !!
Another interesting day on FTR! Don't be self-critical about what you were able to achieve in a single day. You accomplish more in one of your work days than most people do in a week! You've got a big fan here in Melbourne, Australia.
Yes.... Tyler, stop being so self-critical - you get more "stuff" done in a single day than most people do in a day !! You're a hard worker and it shows, Buddy !!
I do about 50 every year in a little over a half a day basically alone. It got a lot quicker when I added a second cone. As I'm bringing the pot up to temp, I'm killing 4 chickens and by the time they're ready to be scalded the pot is usually up to temp. So I do them all in batches of 4 or 5 so I only have to bring the pot up to temp 10 or so times instead of 50 or whatever. We basically have the same setup.
Losing only 2 chickens out of 52 is great. They had been in transit for too long. But you cared for them well, all fed and watered well.
This is why homesteaders invite friends over for a processing party. Many hands make light work.
Look into a sous vide circulating pump. Very precise.
when I was a child growing up on the farm we harvested about 100 chickens every fall with none of the tools you use today me and my dad and sister had them all done on a Sat an all day chore..... but it was a really productive day we would have had more time to swim had we had some of your tools
i wonder if a Thermal Immersion Circulator would work. kinda like a sous-vide machine. you just put it in a container of water and it keeps the temp regulated at whatever you set it to. Might be worth potentially looking into if this is a consistent part of your farm. never fun to have to babysit a water pot lol. those chicks got so big so quick! they look amazing.
Wasn't expecting them to be so big already.
Great job.
Calli and the bulls are friends, for this part of the season.
Have a great day.
We found the scalding as a break point too. So, we broke down and purchased a scalder.
Did you see how friendly Callie was to the cows ? She stood there and let the cows lick her. Callies face was turned toward the cows and she let the cows lick her with a smile on her face. She's so SWEET what a great dog Callie is ❣️ Well.. that was an experience Mr Tyler I've never seen a chicken go through that process before. I learned a few things from watching this video. Thanks for sharing with us, see you in the next video Tyler Family😃👍🏼🎉
Good Afternoon, Tyler and Callie! Harvesting The Chicken! Cone! Fryer! Pucker! Table! Coolers! Ice Bath! Last: Freezer! Chicken Pucker is Working Great! Great Learning Experience Video! Big Chicken! Callie and The Two Bulls are becoming Friends! Great Video! Thank-you! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
All that chicken stuff was interesting, but the bulls licking the dog was the best. Yes I am a rancher 😁😁
You really did a good job with the chickens, Farmer Tyler ! We always had 2 people working on the chickens. For the rest of them, get another person to help you. Those chickens were whoppers ! WOW ! Beautiful breasted and plenty of meat ! Callie and the bulls get along well...giving each other kissies ! Haha ! Thanks for sharing your excellent video, FT ! 😊😊👍🐈🐔
I remember very vividly a tree stump and an axe, a big hot pot of water to put the beheaded bird in to get the feathers of, plucking off the feathers inculding the pin feathers, not a great memory but a very clear one, Sure enjoyed the chicken though. You have a better operation by far !! Love that you made your own chicken plucker
If you can do it out doors is the only way to do it....I've done after dispatching the chicken then bring it in the kitchen...the smell of the birds made me sick...so in the future all will be done outside.
My suggestion is 2 scalders & , kill 4 , drip 4 scald 4 while scaling their should be 4 hanging dripping. Take the after u scald put in ice bath ,cont until u have all done then pull one out & gut & repeat clean up put back on ice until you have all done you can at this point finish or let sit on ice until the next day ( lots of people like it better doing this takes out the rigamortis they say)
then take out dry bag then shrink tag and weigh. It's saves time doing one step at a time also get friends to help for a couple chickens . So
More cones , an other scalder or better one , plastic barrels or
Bigger or more coolers freeze water bottles / milk bottles for ice so your not spending a ton on ice . Of course this is my suggestion from doing chickens for 6 years or so . Great job Todd
I remember when 25 chickens in a day was fabulous, with 4 adults, including grandparents and two young teens. But, back then, we only had a couple of 10 finger chicken pluckers. Thanks for the videos.
Love the videos with the animals involved. I wish we could atleast see you feed them every video
Wow, you are wonderful for encluding us.......thank you.
I think you mean including
@@gailrowland1672 thank you, I fixed it.....I usually check my spelling but this time I was so curious about the setup to home done chicken processing that I wasn't focused on spelling......😊
@@lorrieannesilvey474 😄❤️
Wow those are huge chickens!
Those chickens are huge! They seem a lot larger than the previous batch of chickens that you harvested, at least to my memory, and that difference in size would explain the difference in time utilizing your equipment. Your scalding pot and the chicken plucker could both be affected by the size of bird. We utilize a turkey fryer to scald the chickens. The pot looks to be larger than what you’re utilizing, and it allows us to mount a temp. gauge on it to measure the water temperature.
Loved seeing the interaction between the bulls and Callie. They seem to comfortable around her, and Callie seems to be comfortable around them.
As a teen, my family butchered 183-chickens, 1-turkey, 2-geese, and 3-ducks. It took us two of the longest days of my life with the six of us working together. A home made plucker that didn’t work that well really slowed us down as we had to finish cleaning away the pin feathers by had. It was the pits, and I am pleased when I see someone willing to take the time to do it right, no matter how hard, or long it takes.
Those chickens are HUGE 🇨🇦♥️🇨🇦
Haha Iwas raised on an Eastern KS dirt farm, those were the days my friend! We kids took broom sticks put the chicken under it, pulled its head off and watched them like ten at a time jumping around...like," a chicken with out its head on!" then we had all the buckets with hot water we didnt have running water and we had an outhouse. So we had two tubs set up for butchering. After they were almost done ..they were taken in the house on the range top, propane we burned the tiny feathers all off then they were put in the white butcher paper taken to the local mercantile store where my parents rented lockers to put them in. You got it easy...was fun watching again...but I know that chicken taste soooooooo good compared to what I have to eat from the store!
It appears you have strong winds. Maybe a wind block for the burner would help maintain a more constant temperature for the water.
I grew up on a little farm where part of the income was selling meat chickens. Me my aunt and my uncle could butcher, clean, package and freeze 35 or 40 in a day. So I would say 1 guy doing 10 or so is pretty good.
What a huge process prepping the chickens for the freezer.. Those chickens got so big in what seems like a short time.. Nice job, Tyler.
Wow! Those looked like so nice big chickens! You needed at least one other person to help you though. That was a big job alone. You amaze me that you can engineer any tool or machine you need. Genius!
Love how Cali is VERY present on bird day
Great video Tyler. Today was a success and yes tomorrow is another day and that’s the key. You’re doing great balancing it all out by the way!
FTR , that is quite an undertaking to process them by yourself. I commend you for a very clean production. 👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🙏🏽✌🏻
Those Bulls seem so gentle with your dog
My wife bought me a lung scraper last year. It’s like heaven, I can’t believe I went so many years without one!
nice and humble guy. thank you for great vide
your chickens are some of the biggest chickens,nice and meaty good job
Hey Tyler, John from FarmCraft101 made a video on making a scalder from a water heater. It was about four years ago.
Indeed those chickens got big!! A lot of work for a solo processor. I'm sure you will figure out a way to streamline it. Doing it once a year always makes the start up slow. You'll figure it out. Good post!
When you get a pin hole in a metal container think golf tee. Get a piece of wood and shape it like a golf tee and tap it in the hole until tight. The wood will swell from the liquid and stay sealed for a good temporary fix. I used to haul petroleum tankers and I always carried a half dozen golf tees in the cab of the truck.
YOU are a very resourceful young man.
You could cut the top off an old water heater for a self-regulating scolding pot, rather than trying to pull the element out and put it in something
We switched to a stainless steel brewers pot. From an aluminum fryer pot. Seems to hold temperature a lot better. I feel the aluminum one dissipates the heat faster.
This is an excellent suggestion. They can be purchased online and in sizes larger than a chicken fryer pot.
That was a interesting video I’ve never even heard of a chicken plucker. We always did it by hand. Was a whole family event. Never by ourselves. Where is your help? You are doing very good by yourself.
Perhaps you can consider using an immersion circulator or ‘sous vide’ machine for the scalding pot situation. Those are meant to maintain water at a precise temperature and you can use however big a tank with a couple machines on each side or something. Or a thermalizer? Just some friendly suggestions! Love the videos!
Man they are some BIG chickens, a lot of work . Well done 👍👍
I think that the best you might do is ten minutes per chicken. You could be faster than this by increasing your manpower. The constraints are probably manpower, scalding, and chicken plucker. Having said all that, I think you were doing pretty well. Congratulations! And those chickens seem to be about as big as a small turkey.
Nice work. That's about how it always goes for me. I think I will be able to get so much done, then your lucky if you even get half of it done 😂😂. I guess that's just life though. Keep it up.
We use a water heater element and it works perfectly. We also cut a hot water tank in half it keeps the water more consistent
You could think about making a DIY Coleman Cooler Mash Tun for your scalding pot. A lot of home brewers make/use them. They maintain the heat better than a metal pot sitting in the wind. A lot of RUclips vids on the process.
Man you are awesome!! Good job way too go for your family!!!
I’d certainly buy one of those beautiful chickens if I could. They look terrific.
I love how you don’t just head to the store and buy new equipment. Such an admirable approach to life!
An old hot electric hot water heater with the top cut off works good. You can put a 30a cord end to plug it into a standard dryer outlet. Then you just put a makeshift grate in the bottom to keep the chickens from touching the element, and finish the top with some sheet metal where you cut the top off. Holds at 145 pretty close with one element.
Nice work Tyler I dont have a chicken plucker and I do just fine. Your birds are huge nice job. Have a good day.
look into an electric heater. we used them to heat tool steel and bushings etc , when your aiming for a certain temp.
One thing I can honestly say about yours is yours is more unique it's homemade instead of bought from a store
That plucker is kind of hilarious. I wonder if any late night comedians have ever seen such a thing.
Of all the chicken processing videos I’ve watched I’ve never seen one where everything was done by one person. Great effort! Tim in northern TN
I like the way that packaging works, pretty slick!
As a non-farm guy, I've done chicken processing before with several people working the birds. Me & another guy used the sharp knives & others worked the other stations. I found the whole process quite interesting. BTW... Looks like your beard is growing feathers!😇
Keep on keeping on your doing a great job!
Another great video - brought back memories of doing that years ago - although we used two nails driven into a stump - axe. Callie is quite the dog. Thanks for sharing.
Great sized chickens. Love chicken, could eat it every day. 🚜👍👍🚜
Stop 🛑 being so hard on yourself., You are a one man Job., I didn’t know those Chickens would get that Big so fast so I Guess we can eat them now, Wish I had some of your Chicken because Food taste horrible and I am tried of eating it myself., Thanks for sharing again Tyler 5-2-2023👍🏽👍🏽
Before you twist tie the bag, dip the bag in a bucket of cold water; this will get most of the air out of the bag. Then dip in the hot water to shrink.
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Love that you put "quality" in place of prices. take care.............
Those looked like small turkeys in the package Tyler. Maybe it's just me. Getting a thermostat on that dip tank would probably help a lot. Wish I could help you out but that's not my line of expertise. Callie with the bulls was COOL! Just gotta love animals man. Love your channel. Thanks for another great video. 👍
If your turkey fryer came with one of those metallic baskets that is slightly smaller than the fryer, I started using that to dunk the chickens. That way I could hold the handle and not get splashed when the whole bird went under.
💥 Tyler Good Job 🐔
Like always 👍
I love you gorgeous baby dog😊
I am always amazed how fast the chick grow! That looks like a lot of meat!
Thanks for taking us along! I always enjoy watching you and learning new things. 😊
Try using a sous vide heater for the Scalder
Love your tshirt. So true
RV water heater element will give you the heat on 120VAC, the thermostatic control is the tender bit.
Hard work day Tyler chickens look nice and meaty great job on raising them thanks for sharing
Cool video
You are a very creative & talented farmer!
You definitely need more than just yourself doing all the work. Forever ago, it used to be my mom, dad and me. Couldn’t imagine doing all the jobs required by yourself….after awhile it becomes too much/overwhelming.
Wow, I think you did quite well. Here is a suggestion for a scolding pot,a friend of mine said he cut a gas water heater in half and used the bottom half, which has the burner and regulator in it, I am sure it was a old style that didn't have all the safety switches on it, I never seen it but he said it worked very well
That is not a one person job, you got a lot done. I love those bags
From my distilling days I used a modified 2000watt electric hotplate to hold constant temp on my still. It’s a fairly easy modification by removing the heat cut off switch and adding a rheostat on the hotplate you set temp once and it will remain constant with out fluctuations in temp.
We have local Amish that butcher chickens. My brother and I dropped of 60 birds. They told us to come back in an hour. Of course they have more than one person working. But its amazing how fast they can do it. And for about $1.50 a bird.
Good job you’re pace will get it done and if it takes a little longer so be it. At least your not having to do thousands of birds. You might want to start on a more sturdy version of the plucker and if you do upgrade maybe make it large and sturdy enough to do Turkeys as well. Happy farmings
I would press on till this batch is done but start looking for up grades to make it easier
I made an auto temp scalder works great within 2 degrees of where I set it. Mounted it on a shopping cart I customized that someone left by my house
Those look like nice and plump hens!!! There's lots of good eatin' there. Doing it all by yourself is a huge undertaking. They sure will be tasty when Mrs. FTR cooks them!🍗
Tyler, bigger chickens probably take longer? Hard working alone on that task. If I was 2500 miles closer I would help you for a chicken an hour😜
I use a water heater element with really good success. I have found it works alot better to get the water to temp with the turkey cooker then just maintain the temp with the water heater. Just what works for us!
Those chickens look a lot bigger than the last time I saw you do this, FTR. Happy eating!
0:11 haha!! Look at THAT!!! 🤣🤣🤣Y'all were wondering??!! Haha! WOW
I remember doing that as a young kid with my mother but we did everything by hand .
We use a cast iron kettle over a fire for the scalding pot
Thanks 😊
Great informative vid FT! Really interesting! Nice size chickens! Tx for taking us along!😊😊
How many pounds were your chickens. Great job.
Thanks brother,peace…