I see so many farm families that dont instill the work ethic - joy of work to their kids - it's makes me happy to see your kids understand and enjoy takin part in family duties - wonderfull !
Thanks for taking us along the process. Great job teaching the children about working together for a common goal, the most important goal of a lifetime. Feeding yourselves and the family. Teamwork makes the dream work. 💜
I absolutely love how your family works together. I love how you treat your precious wife. My husband of 55 years always took care of me. He wouldn’t let me lift heavy things. If he was home when l went to get groceries he always carried them in while l put them away.
Thank yall so much, I love learning. My Mom and Dad the chickens, themselves also. I was so amazed the kids working and knowing what they're doing, and each knife and knows what to do with it. 😊❤🙏 Ms. Ruby
Enjoyed watching today! We introduced my parents who are in their 80s to the channel a week ago and they are addicted to it! As we gathered together yesterday with the whole family, my mother had the floor and had to show and tell the whole family about y’all’s channel lol. It’s their number one thing to watch because it reminds them of the way they grew up!
Megan from one nurse to another, I applaud your consciousness of cleaning and cleanliness throughout this procedure. Wish I was closer to purchase one of your chickens!
O you’re precious you would flip over the. Fair you would feel right at home i love and you only need your clothes it’s all taken care of Friday and Saturday morning we feed the dairy farmers think you be in middle of them love prayers kids ride eat and you’re at home here I write you all are good I hear baby girl 👧 love you all
I make gravy we feed the Twice they love it and us they rise shine me too in my kitchen Fonna jn hers she comes bye to pick up eat early I stay here Clem up and we’re off doize never clise live you all dear to our hearts yo all looks like u stepped out hat box I love that love ❤️
Thank you thank you thank you for instilling work ethic into your kids. Nothing I can’t stand more than seeing lazy youngins!! On behalf of the part of society who know how to work and aren’t afraid of it…. We thank you!!
I want to say Thank you. The way you process your birds and show the process is great. My daughter and I tried to process her chickens and let me tell you, it was an adventure. You explain everything and showing. My mom and aunts use to buy chickens to process, but I always left. I do like your plucked and will be looking into getting one, so much easier than pulling them by hand. So thank you for sharing and teaching. God Bless you and your family. Love from Delaware
We had three chickens we got in early spring, but could not get butchered until November! We did put their feed up on the top of a ramp, where they had to "exercise" to get to it, plus they were free range during the day. I am not lying, when I tell you that those chickens weighed, dressed, 19 pounds each! They looked like turkeys! My grandma, who raised chickens all her life, came to visit, and we showed her pictures, and she was shocked! Our turkey dressed, weighed 36 lbs! We had to cut them in half to cook them! The only way they didn't break their legs or have their hearts blow out, was because they had to exercise for their food. They were 4-H projects, so we haven't gotten chickens since. Besides, our kids are grown with kids of their own.
I love how you all get along so well. You may have knock down drag outs off video but, you all seem to respect and get along with each other well. Also like the way you are raising your children. Great job ! I truly enjoy your videos.... reminds me of my growin up years at home.
I just can't get over your children and the work ethic they have learned at such a young age. They are also about the happiest and contented I have seen, working with their Mom and Dad. The butchering and what is what, very interesting. You tell people what they really need to know. Like what happens the 7 - 8th week with feed expenses. Your humanity in not forcing their weight due to heart attacks. Like you make sure not to package all of them whole. Problems with the equipment. This was an awesome video. Thanks.
I enjoyed watching your family butchering together. We butchered our meat birds Saturday and my 16 year old son has taken over the roles of getting the birds from the pasture, dispatching, scalding, and plucking. My husband bragged that he didn’t have help at all with that and was able to help me with the gutting. Our day went much faster.
Great job y'all 👍🤠👍. Great job kiddos helping, y'all have learned something that'll come in handy in y'all's future. It makes a huge difference when y'all get the helping hand to make the task go smoother👍❣️👍 It's a great feeling knowing where what yr eating is coming from 👍🤠👍❣️ Much love to y'all from here in Michigan ❤️
Good clean chicken without all the stuff the factories put into their feed. Maggie is just a go getter. Whatever and whenever something is goin on she's there. and so is Jacob. Teach your children well and by golly you guys have. God Bless your family, Mom and Dad I know you are very proud of them. Great kids. God Bless. Rebekah
wonderful how your teaching your kids I see grown people that have no idea what it's like to provide for them self ,,,if the stores close they'd be lost! NOT YOUR KIDS GREAT WORK TO YOU ALL
This is a great video. My job as a child was cleaning the gesurte. Granny always fried these for dinner. I always felt like it was important for me to clean them good so everyone would enjoy dinner. I didn't eat them but had the gravy and biscuits. Your children are awesome.
There's no better brown bean than Bush's. I am so impressed with how well your children work with ya'll. Most kids start out helping but then after awhile they lose interest and are no where in sight. And they seem to really enjoy doing what they were doing. Great video as always!
My husband and I taught ourselves how to process our chickens by watching youtube video's. It took us an entire day to do 9 birds and they were just yard birds. We've never raised any meat birds yet. We don't have any of the items you had for scalding and plucking. We just did it all by hand. It was a big learning experience. I just proud that we were able to do it at all. I love that you all do it as a family.
It’s a HUGE learning curve! You should be proud it is a big step, especially doing it all by hand! I remember our first time ever I think we did 15 maybe and we had some friends come help and it took us from sun up to sun down, we were all exhausted. But the more you do it the more efficient you become! We started about 5 years ago or so
I grew up watching my Mamaw wring chickens necks. She would have loved that plucker. I have to tell the truth I couldn’t gut the chicken and I too am a RN and worked in the OR for several years. Thanks for sharing.
We operate a commercial poultry farm and have to keep a lot of brooder heaters going. My husband's favorite fix it method is an air compressor! He is also a big Bush bean fan! We have a pantry full of them! 😂 Best to all!
Hi guys! I just love your greenhouse, so cute and what a great setup with the gravel floor ! It’s Gonna be so useful and pretty at the same time ! Good to see the real deal in the whole family butchering your chickens, I’m learning so much from y’all! I’m sure they taste way different than store bought. Same as your home grown strawberries . My mouth watered when you were picking them the other day😊 y’all take care. God bless you !
I have been thinking about this video all day. To me it seems like it was yesterday that you put the 50 Chicks in that heated building and today you harvested them as full grown meals. Of course for me it seems like a few days, because I was not pulling their little home from one patch to the next. And it amazed me each member of your family had their job in the processing of each bird. Little Magee cut the head off,, Jacob cut the feet off, you gutting them then the kids putting your finished birds in water. And I guess Andy was in charge of dispatching, scalding and de feathering them. Your family is a well oiled machine. It tickles me pink to watch you all work together.
Me and my wife had a farm for ten years. Cattle, goats, chickens and rabbits. Had to let it go. Was not going to die with my boots on. I cut the chicken up in pieces and left the exposed internals and back. That’s how I did it.
Just watch your road trip to the South while in Alabama shame you didn't know about Cog Hill Farm. you would have loved Brook and Jason. they have a beautiful farm. please check out their channel. just country people great people.
Hi Megan, I'm so glad I came across your channel. I'm a country girl from North Carolina and I miss the days when my grandmother use to cook back bones and the processed chickens off the yard. There's nothing better. You all have a beautiful crop of vegetables and I miss the days of helping in the garden when I was young. Oh and I can't forget about the biscuits made with lard. Have a great week you all.
Isn’t that something I had no idea that’s how you process a chicken wow that’s amazing and your kids even know how to do it. I’m so used to just buy one at the store already to go good job all of you. ❤️
If it won’t stay lit it will be the thermocouple. It’s the thin copper tube that goes to the gas valve and sits in the flame. It’s designed if the pilot light blows out it stops the gas input. Thermocouples in the U.K. are about $10 and so easy to fit. If you go on you tube it will show you how to fit them.
I love your videos. I just started watching and I think they are great. I learn a lot from them. The children are great. They just dive in to work, no complaining. I love your patience in everything you do. Just like to add. Where I live in VA they sell chickens like you raise at the farmers market. For 30.00- 40.00 each!
Love seeing the kids being involved in the process, they definitely will respect the meat when they sit down to eat knowing what it takes to produce it. I worked at a game-bird farm and butchering day was always a long day, we had a rabbit meat operation to where I butchered 20 rabbits or more in a evening. Considering getting some more meat animals.
you need a new thermocouple for the gas valve to keep the pilot lit and clean the pilot assembly with wire tooth brush and then blow it out across the top, We love the channel, moved to Florida from Mooresville NC, we have big garden due to ya'll and Hoss and Lazy Dog , changed our lives, God Bless
Just found your channel love watching y'all so interesting and helpful I can't how many videos I've watched since I found y'all and I got my sister watching you to
Good afternoon Good to see you guys & your children working as a team ❤ Teaching them at a young age how to live off the land … I think that’s awesome👍
Growing up, we just lit a fire, set a tub over it and kept the fire going. There was five of us and everybody had their jobs. Mine was plucking the chickens by hand. It was an all day job because we processed 50-100 chickens. We didn’t have a freezer at first but rented a freezer storage locker in town.
Y'all are amazing! The kids are growin up to be good, capable and productive. More families should follow your example.
❤️❤️❤️
I see so many farm families that dont instill the work ethic - joy of work to their kids - it's makes me happy to see your kids understand and enjoy takin part in family duties - wonderfull !
I was amazed at your children. They got right to work, no "ew, gross" comments, they just got busy. I think you are such good parents.
I'm from UK and just love your accents ,thank you for educating me x
Thanks for taking us along the process. Great job teaching the children about working together for a common goal, the most important goal of a lifetime. Feeding yourselves and the family. Teamwork makes the dream work. 💜
I absolutely love how your family works together. I love how you treat your precious wife. My husband of 55 years always took care of me. He wouldn’t let me lift heavy things. If he was home when l went to get groceries he always carried them in while l put them away.
You and your family are wonderful. Period. Love your videos and your husband & kids are very lucky to have you.
Thank yall so much, I love learning. My Mom and Dad the chickens, themselves also.
I was so amazed the kids working and knowing what they're doing, and each knife and knows what to do with it. 😊❤🙏
Ms. Ruby
Enjoyed watching today! We introduced my parents who are in their 80s to the channel a week ago and they are addicted to it! As we gathered together yesterday with the whole family, my mother had the floor and had to show and tell the whole family about y’all’s channel lol. It’s their number one thing to watch because it reminds them of the way they grew up!
I can relate ❤
Thank you so so much ❤️❤️❤️
Gotta love them farm kids! ♥️🙏🏼🇺🇲
Megs serious business and must be a fan of Larry The Cable Guy - git er done 👍
Your kids are adorable and learning great life survival skills!😇!😇!😇!😇!
Great video yall and the kids joining in was a special treat, they did a great job!!
Megan from one nurse to another, I applaud your consciousness of cleaning and cleanliness throughout this procedure. Wish I was closer to purchase one of your chickens!
O you’re precious you would flip over the. Fair you would feel right at home i love and you only need your clothes it’s all taken care of Friday and Saturday morning we feed the dairy farmers think you be in middle of them love prayers kids ride eat and you’re at home here I write you all are good
I hear baby girl 👧 love you all
I make gravy we feed the
Twice they love it and us they rise shine me too in my kitchen Fonna jn hers she comes bye to pick up eat early I stay here Clem up and we’re off doize never clise live you all dear to our hearts yo all looks like u stepped out hat box I love that love ❤️
You two are such a cute couple. And your family is so wonderful. Ty for sharing. Another great video!! ❤
Love total family involvement
Thank you thank you thank you for instilling work ethic into your kids. Nothing I can’t stand more than seeing lazy youngins!! On behalf of the part of society who know how to work and aren’t afraid of it…. We thank you!!
I want to say Thank you. The way you process your birds and show the process is great. My daughter and I tried to process her chickens and let me tell you, it was an adventure. You explain everything and showing. My mom and aunts use to buy chickens to process, but I always left. I do like your plucked and will be looking into getting one, so much easier than pulling them by hand. So thank you for sharing and teaching. God Bless you and your family. Love from Delaware
Good morning from Oregon, the kids are amazing I love they know so much and participate in how their food is grown and processed.
They are such a huge help around here!
I am not ashamed to say I like my beans that way too sir.
Great job by the whole family. It's nice to see.
Thankyou so much all of you... thoroughly enjoyed the video !
Oh the true gritters best corn they love me too plenty butter yum yum
Thank you so much for answering my question. I appreciate that.
I wish we were closer so we could all jump in together and help on these days. Y'all are a great team though!
Even ole Tiger has a job of “keeping the grounds clean!” Tough job, but someone’s gotta do it. 🐕
That’s right! 🤣
We had three chickens we got in early spring, but could not get butchered until November! We did put their feed up on the top of a ramp, where they had to "exercise" to get to it, plus they were free range during the day. I am not lying, when I tell you that those chickens weighed, dressed, 19 pounds each! They looked like turkeys! My grandma, who raised chickens all her life, came to visit, and we showed her pictures, and she was shocked! Our turkey dressed, weighed 36 lbs! We had to cut them in half to cook them! The only way they didn't break their legs or have their hearts blow out, was because they had to exercise for their food. They were 4-H projects, so we haven't gotten chickens since. Besides, our kids are grown with kids of their own.
Love watching!
Enjoyed seeing the process! Thanks
Thankyou 😊
Love the learnin the chaps are gettin
I love how you all get along so well. You may have knock down drag outs off video but, you all seem to respect and get along with each other well. Also like the way you are raising your children. Great job ! I truly enjoy your videos.... reminds me of my growin up years at home.
It's wonderful to see family working together. And everyone will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
You folks are so totally super cool 😎 ❤!
I just can't get over your children and the work ethic they have learned at such a young age. They are also about the happiest and contented I have seen, working with their Mom and Dad. The butchering and what is what, very interesting. You tell people what they really need to know. Like what happens the 7 - 8th week with feed expenses. Your humanity in not forcing their weight due to heart attacks. Like you make sure not to package all of them whole. Problems with the equipment. This was an awesome video. Thanks.
Blow the dust off of the pilot light
Meg is my hero :) she can do it all. Andy, I LOVE beenie weenies and cornbread. Grew up on it. :)
Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
You all are amazing!
Excellent video thank you
I enjoyed watching your family butchering together. We butchered our meat birds Saturday and my 16 year old son has taken over the roles of getting the birds from the pasture, dispatching, scalding, and plucking. My husband bragged that he didn’t have help at all with that and was able to help me with the gutting. Our day went much faster.
Great job y'all 👍🤠👍. Great job kiddos helping, y'all have learned something that'll come in handy in y'all's future. It makes a huge difference when y'all get the helping hand to make the task go smoother👍❣️👍
It's a great feeling knowing where what yr eating is coming from 👍🤠👍❣️
Much love to y'all from here in Michigan ❤️
Good clean chicken without all the stuff the factories put into their feed. Maggie is just a go getter. Whatever and whenever something is goin on she's there. and so is Jacob. Teach your children well and by golly you guys have. God Bless your family, Mom and Dad I know you are very proud of them. Great kids. God Bless. Rebekah
Great job ! I do love to see young folk raised proper ! I would have been having chicken liver for supper though.
I love your little family!
As I said before we can see the boss and future boss of the farm 😮😂.
That’s a very comprehensive online course on chicken processing. Thank you very much.
Once again, the kids were right there in the mix helping out, love this!!
Thanks yall. I love how your kids help. Your neighbor in Tn.
This was the first video I watched of yours & I’ve been watching ever since!!! Really enjoying all your videos as well.
I love your family best on U tube beautifully dressed and so sweet we keep ‘em for sure Amen ❤
Thanks for the clean as you go tip. I have never done it this way. Sounds like it is worth it.
wonderful how your teaching your kids I see grown people that have no idea what it's like to provide for them self ,,,if the stores close they'd be lost! NOT YOUR KIDS GREAT WORK TO YOU ALL
This is a great video. My job as a child was cleaning the gesurte. Granny always fried these for dinner. I always felt like it was important for me to clean them good so everyone would enjoy dinner. I didn't eat them but had the gravy and biscuits.
Your children are awesome.
The two children are worth a million, you should be very proud of them and the way you are bringing them up
Always great job everyone 👏 appreciate y'all sharing 😊 those feet and necks never had a chance lol 🤣 awesome
There's no better brown bean than Bush's. I am so impressed with how well your children work with ya'll. Most kids start out helping but then after awhile they lose interest and are no where in sight. And they seem to really enjoy doing what they were doing. Great video as always!
Yep, I love those bush beans.I get the vegetarian beans( im not vegan, but like that version).
Even cold right out of the can on a picnic! So good!
My husband and I taught ourselves how to process our chickens by watching youtube video's. It took us an entire day to do 9 birds and they were just yard birds. We've never raised any meat birds yet. We don't have any of the items you had for scalding and plucking. We just did it all by hand. It was a big learning experience. I just proud that we were able to do it at all. I love that you all do it as a family.
You're ahead of so many of us, so congrats!
It’s a HUGE learning curve! You should be proud it is a big step, especially doing it all by hand! I remember our first time ever I think we did 15 maybe and we had some friends come help and it took us from sun up to sun down, we were all exhausted. But the more you do it the more efficient you become! We started about 5 years ago or so
I grew up watching my Mamaw wring chickens necks. She would have loved that plucker. I have to tell the truth I couldn’t gut the chicken and I too am a RN and worked in the OR for several years. Thanks for sharing.
You guys are great, I have learned so much from you.
Those kids are getting tremendous “life lessons”! Dang good, practical knowledge that will serve them well forever! ❤
I grew up learning to butcher chickens and I am so glad I have that skill, as hubby and I raise our own chickens ❤
I don't think I could be more impressed with all of you❣
Ya'll are great, especially teaching your children how to process the chickens they know where their food comes from
Old army saying is clean as you go
We operate a commercial poultry farm and have to keep a lot of brooder heaters going. My husband's favorite fix it method is an air compressor! He is also a big Bush bean fan! We have a pantry full of them! 😂 Best to all!
Hard workers for sure
Hi guys! I just love your greenhouse, so cute and what a great setup with the gravel floor ! It’s Gonna be so useful and pretty at the same time ! Good to see the real deal in the whole family butchering your chickens, I’m learning so much from y’all! I’m sure they taste way different than store bought. Same as your home grown strawberries . My mouth watered when you were picking them the other day😊 y’all take care. God bless you !
Wow! Meat birds ready!! Great! And supper looked good.
Make you some home fries! Add some ramps or onions to those potatoes! Lol!! Celebrate Appalachia! Love both of these you tube channels!
Beautiful to see the young ones diligently doing their tasks..you can tell they are well practiced too.
I have been thinking about this video all day. To me it seems like it was yesterday that you put the 50 Chicks in that heated building and today you harvested them as full grown meals. Of course for me it seems like a few days, because I was not pulling their little home from one patch to the next. And it amazed me each member of your family had their job in the processing of each bird. Little Magee cut the head off,, Jacob cut the feet off, you gutting them then the kids putting your finished birds in water. And I guess Andy was in charge of dispatching, scalding and de feathering them. Your family is a well oiled machine. It tickles me pink to watch you all work together.
Y’all are so sweet with each other. I love how encouraging and kind your interactions are ❤
Loved and needed this video. New subscriber here! Thanks for sharing with us!!
Me and my wife had a farm for ten years. Cattle, goats, chickens and rabbits. Had to let it go. Was not going to die with my boots on. I cut the chicken up in pieces and left the exposed internals and back. That’s how I did it.
You worked hard!!!
Just watch your road trip to the South while in Alabama shame you didn't know about Cog Hill Farm. you would have loved Brook and Jason. they have a beautiful farm. please check out their channel. just country people great people.
Wow they grew fast! 😉
Sorry I can’t watch this video but I will give you a thumbs up
Totally understand! No worries!
Great channel
Hi Megan, I'm so glad I came across your channel. I'm a country girl from North Carolina and I miss the days when my grandmother use to cook back bones and the processed chickens off the yard. There's nothing better. You all have a beautiful crop of vegetables and I miss the days of helping in the garden when I was young. Oh and I can't forget about the biscuits made with lard. Have a great week you all.
Just found your channel. I live in NNE Tennessee. I love my Appalachian home. Best wishes.
Isn’t that something I had no idea that’s how you process a chicken wow that’s amazing and your kids even know how to do it. I’m so used to just buy one at the store already to go good job all of you. ❤️
Aw man, you guys gotta keep the hearts. Cbicken hearts grilled over charcoal are great. Really popular in japanese yakitori.
If it won’t stay lit it will be the thermocouple. It’s the thin copper tube that goes to the gas valve and sits in the flame. It’s designed if the pilot light blows out it stops the gas input. Thermocouples in the U.K. are about $10 and so easy to fit. If you go on you tube it will show you how to fit them.
I love your videos. I just started watching and I think they are great. I learn a lot from them. The children are great. They just dive in to work, no complaining. I love your patience in everything you do. Just like to add. Where I live in VA they sell chickens like you raise at the farmers market. For 30.00- 40.00 each!
Love seeing the kids being involved in the process, they definitely will respect the meat when they sit down to eat knowing what it takes to produce it. I worked at a game-bird farm and butchering day was always a long day, we had a rabbit meat operation to where I butchered 20 rabbits or more in a evening. Considering getting some more meat animals.
The gutting reminds me of Rabbit harvest day. I'm not so fast though..
Excellent. I appreciate what you share. Thank you.
I love seeing the whole family involved
Thank you guys ❤️
Great job on all of it! Y'all do an awesome job showing the reality of how busy life is on a homestead. True grit!
you need a new thermocouple for the gas valve to keep the pilot lit and clean the pilot assembly with wire tooth brush and then blow it out across the top, We love the channel, moved to Florida from Mooresville NC, we have big garden due to ya'll and Hoss and Lazy Dog , changed our lives, God Bless
Wow, thank you ❤️❤️ and best of luck on your gardening adventures!!!!
Hello from north Georgia! I Just subscribed a couple days ago. Y’all are my new favorite people on YT.
wow thank you
Just found your channel love watching y'all so interesting and helpful I can't how many videos I've watched since I found y'all and I got my sister watching you to
Love how it’s a family affair I think that’s the first time I’ve seen your children wear shoes lol 😂
Nice family jobs :)
You guys make some of the best videos! Much love from the Midwest! ❤❤
Good afternoon
Good to see you guys & your children working as a team ❤
Teaching them at a young age how to live off the land …
I think that’s awesome👍
I just love watching your family working together. It amazes me.
Great video i helped my mom when i was a kid
At least gizzards and hearts
Growing up, we just lit a fire, set a tub over it and kept the fire going. There was five of us and everybody had their jobs. Mine was plucking the chickens by hand. It was an all day job because we processed 50-100 chickens. We didn’t have a freezer at first but rented a freezer storage locker in town.
You two are amazing!! So interesting. Blessings
I always save my cereal bags and put my chicken breast in and store them in the freezer, they never get freezer burnt❤