True Farm to Table | Family Chicken Processing Day | May 2024
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2024
- Today we are processing our meat birds, not all parts of growing your own food are fun or easy, this is the nitty gritty yall. We want to know exactly how our meat was raised and processed so why not do it ourselves. We have been raising cornish cross for the last 5 years, once you've tried farm fresh chicken its hard to go back! Our meat birds come from Valley Farms Hatchery www.valleyfarmshatchery.com/
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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.
Y'all are amazing! The kids are growin up to be good, capable and productive. More families should follow your example.
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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.
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. 💜
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 ❤️❤️❤️
You two are such a cute couple. And your family is so wonderful. Ty for sharing. Another great video!! ❤
Megs serious business and must be a fan of Larry The Cable Guy - git er done 👍
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!!
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 ❤️
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!
Thankyou so much all of you... thoroughly enjoyed the video !
Even ole Tiger has a job of “keeping the grounds clean!” Tough job, but someone’s gotta do it. 🐕
That’s right! 🤣
It's wonderful to see family working together. And everyone will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
Always great job everyone 👏 appreciate y'all sharing 😊 those feet and necks never had a chance lol 🤣 awesome
That’s a very comprehensive online course on chicken processing. Thank you very much.
Meg is my hero :) she can do it all. Andy, I LOVE beenie weenies and cornbread. Grew up on it. :)
Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
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 ❤️
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.
I love your family best on U tube beautifully dressed and so sweet we keep ‘em for sure Amen ❤
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.
You and your family are wonderful. Period. Love your videos and your husband & kids are very lucky to have you.
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.
Great job ! I do love to see young folk raised proper ! I would have been having chicken liver for supper though.
Those kids are getting tremendous “life lessons”! Dang good, practical knowledge that will serve them well forever! ❤
I don't think I could be more impressed with all of you❣
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!
Ya'll are great, especially teaching your children how to process the chickens they know where their food comes from
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
Y’all are so sweet with each other. I love how encouraging and kind your interactions are ❤
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 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!
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.
Your kids are adorable and learning great life survival skills!😇!😇!😇!😇!
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
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!
I love seeing the whole family involved
I grew up learning to butcher chickens and I am so glad I have that skill, as hubby and I raise our own chickens ❤
The two children are worth a million, you should be very proud of them and the way you are bringing them up
48 chickens. I'm tired just watching and thinking about it. Good work family.
Oh the true gritters best corn they love me too plenty butter yum yum
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.
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
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..
Love watching your videos! I really admire and appreciate how you work together as a family. My daddy had a motto that we lived by, "Family First!" We worshiped together and we worked together! My parents raised 9 children. It wasn't easy by a long shot, but it sure was fun doing everything together! I learned a new trick today about stuffing the chicken legs through the skin. That is genius!!! I'll be sharing that trick with my niece and nephew when I help them process their chickens! God bless you and your loving family!
I wish we were closer so we could all jump in together and help on these days. Y'all are a great team though!
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
Love what you guys are doing and involving your children in the process is awesome!!! You’re an inspiration to many as well as me!!!
Great video i helped my mom when i was a kid
This was the first video I watched of yours & I’ve been watching ever since!!! Really enjoying all your videos as well.
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.
Great job y'all. I really like the shrink wrap method of bagging the chicken. Hey y'all raised the meat and potatoes. Everything else is just extras. Y'all have a great evening.
I always save my cereal bags and put my chicken breast in and store them in the freezer, they never get freezer burnt❤
Love total family involvement
Them youngins are something else. Jacob is a worker! Maggie is a lil go-getter! Love the videos,hear me talkin to ya!
Make you some home fries! Add some ramps or onions to those potatoes! Lol!! Celebrate Appalachia! Love both of these you tube channels!
I really enjoyed this video, I learned what it takes to process your own meat birds. We started raising chickens last year just for eggs. I definitely would not want to this without a plucker, lol. Jacob has got his jobs finely tuned and Miss Maggie is great at helping out where and when needed. Thanks for sharing this day on your homestead!
We enjoyed the video, team work. You guys are amazing, Mat God richly bless you
❤ Lee family, Florida
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.
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.
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. ❤️
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.
Really enjoying yalls channel. Hope it keeps blowing up.
As I said before we can see the boss and future boss of the farm 😮😂.
Love the learnin the chaps are gettin
Wow! Meat birds ready!! Great! And supper looked good.
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.
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.
Good morning front east N.C. great video as usually very educational for those who are wanting to learn or see where food comes from it just doesn't Magically appear in the grocery store.
Good thing about this is you know what they've been feed& given.
Also loved how you had your children working with you basically teaching them.i remember following my Grandpa around didn't matter if it was on the boat commercial fishing or cutting wood or in the garden he always had me a job he was teaching me plus it made me feel good.i certainly miss them times for sure
Have a great day &
God Bless you all🙏⚓
Enjoyed seeing the process! Thanks
Love watching!
I love your little family!
You folks are so totally super cool 😎 ❤!
Awesome teamwork y'all!
Fantastic everyone has a task in doing it
Thanks for the clean as you go tip. I have never done it this way. Sounds like it is worth it.
Great family team work true grit ❤
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 !
Aw man, you guys gotta keep the hearts. Cbicken hearts grilled over charcoal are great. Really popular in japanese yakitori.
Megan, I just watched a video of yall singing in yall house ,gospel songs. Yall was really good we loved it. I believe you learned that in church. The children did really good . Maybe yall will do it again.
Thank you so much for answering my question. I appreciate that.
You guys make some of the best videos! Much love from the Midwest! ❤❤
Sorry I can’t watch this video but I will give you a thumbs up
Totally understand! No worries!
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!
You all are amazing!
Never have seen that done before .Thats awesome.
❤Megan, I tried to watch the other video but I’m too tender hearted. I will let this one run but turn the sound down. This way you will get credit for my view. I’m such a wimp. 😂
No worries my friend!!
Just found your channel. I live in NNE Tennessee. I love my Appalachian home. Best wishes.
Can’t wait to do this on a homestead one day! We rent now and get a lot of fish and deer and ducks when we can and boy does it make a difference! Love this channel!
I seen that Tony’s when it came out the cabinet!! Y’all cooking right over there!😂
What skill! Thank you for enlightening me to these techniques. Chicken is hard for me. I was the dipper/ plucker. The smell is something. Eating chicken off the bone still bothers me, and so does raw chicken. It’s crazy because I’ve done all of the life process with beef, and it isn’t like the “chicken experience.” I appreciate your dedication to your animals. They are blessed to have you and you are blessed to have them.
Wow they grew fast! 😉
Loved and needed this video. New subscriber here! Thanks for sharing with us!!
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!!!!
Good Morning!
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
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.
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