Oh man! I've never seen how this is done. When I saw the title I had such an aversion to watching this... But then I thought damn, I'm willing to buy, cook and eat chicken from the store but I'm not willing to see how it's done?? So glad I watched. This is good to understand and to see. Thanks for sharing.
I'm one who cries at "Bambi" and didn't know how I'd handle this - I watched my papaw wring the neck of a chicken, and it's body flapped and squawked running down the hill, and it really affected me back then. But you guys made it look easy and humane. Thank you for doing this - those of us who are considering this lifestyle are learning so much from you.
Isn't it amazing what a group of people can accomplish when they work together. When i was sixteen I raised 525 chickens from Murray Mcmurry Hatchery afterwe had fed them 1 1/2 ton of feed we butchered, starting at 530 in the morning and finished around 11 at night. What a day two chopping, one scalding and keeping the water hot, 3 plucking and 5 dressing in the cooking area in the cool basement. Needless to say we all slept well that night. In August the group would get together to freeze corn, make apple butter or sauce, or butcher a steer or hogs. Many hands made light work. It's great to see that happening again.
I have SO much respect and appreciation for your lifestyle and that you are teaching your children to be self-sufficient. I was not raised this way and, though I would like to learn, I am not sure I can manage it! It is both shocking and fascinating!!! Thank you for sharing this and thank you to the beautiful chickens.
I haven't seen a "normal" looking chicken since I was a kiddo and helped with our chicken harvesting, so this was a reminder of what a healthy bird should look like. 25 was the most we ever did in a day, no machinery, just lots of hands. Thanks for sharing, especially on such a busy day!
My husband and I processed 6, SIX!, chickens and it took us around 8 hours. It was our first time. And honestly, probably our last time 😅 we did hand pluck them. But we decided that buying our fryers from the butcher is A-OK 👌🏻
This took my back to my grandmothers house in a village in South Africa. Every christmas when we came home from boarding school, I miss the village life. thank you for sharing
Thank you to these farmers and the chickens for giving their time and life energy to help us live a healthy long life. California Carnivores hug trees too ☮️
That is amazing!! That scalder and plucker really was a humongous help! I had to laugh when I saw Josh sticking his hand in-I expected a packet of gizzards to come out!! 🤣🤣🤣
I love watching homesteading, but I am 56 this year, disabled, but I love watching there are many I watch. I am an intel youtube junkie. The most info in my brain the better. I have had two seizures in the last year so my mind is fried, so this is helping my processing rerouting away from the injury of my brain. Thank you for sharing I will be watching and catching up. TY Marilyn
Awesome video - we just processed our chickens last weekend for the family. It's always fun family memories...one thing I noticed that might help is we put the tables on blocks to our height so we are not bending over all day cutting/eviscerating/bagging the chickens. It was so much better on our backs at the end of the day :)
My dad was a preacher and when we lived in northern Minnesota, one of the parishioners paid his tithe in live chickens. I remember standing next to the butcher block helping my dad butcher chickens at the age of 4. Also, there was a professional fisherman that paid his tithe in fish and I helped my dad clean fish. Fond memories of spending time with my dad.
This was amazing. I showed my 9 year old son the video. I think is good to know where the meat we eat comes from and how it gets to our plate. There needs to be more of this. I would love to be homesteading. But for the moment we will live the dream through you all xxx
I am so missing my parents. Mama raised every name chicken-bird you can name. Yard birds taste so delicious. DO YOU ALL SELL YOUR BIRDS THROUGH THE MAIL?. Eating a naturally raised chicken taste is different from ones in stores. WISH I COULD BUY AT LEAST 5-DRESSED CHICKENS. Watching your channel brings back great memories.... GREAT FAMILY!!!
Thank you for making this video and not shying away from showing everything. I think it is so important to see things like this. Even to those of us who don't have land or our own chickens. I must say, the way you all went about processing them seemed very peaceful, efficient, and humane. Also, that is an exciting amount of necks and feet! I can just imagine how delicious and nourshing that broth will be
Thanks for taking the time to video throughout such a busy day! And I don't know how you all stayed on your feet bent over working for that long!! We pull up chairs and sit at the tables when processing chickens for hours. So happy you will get to enjoy many meals of meat that you raised yourselves, knowing how they were raised and what they were fed. That's a real blessing these days.
Great Video! We grew and processed 200 chickens for several years while our kids were still in the house. Sweet memories! After the first time I put blocks under the table legs for an easier working height for long hours. So much easier on the back! I love watching your channel! Thanks for sharing!
Rendered chicken fat is called schmaltz in Yiddish and is used in many traditional Jewish dishes. My favorite is latkes, shredded potatoes, grated onion, eggs, matzo meal and a little salt and pepper. Fry in schmaltz, not too high a temp, until golden brown. Drain on paper towels and serve with sour cream. Delicious!!💓
I gotta say, I don’t know how many years it will take me to get to the point of harvesting my own chickens, but I’d say you must be breaking even, if not having a surplus, since you compared the price of chickens per lb to the grocery store, BUT, most stores don’t provide feet or necks or other fats, AND you’re even getting compost out of the deal to further other growth on your land. I absolutely love nature and the permaculture theory of nothing going to waste and how a bit of hard work can create SO MUCH wealth. Thanks so much for sharing your lives and your knowledge with us! 🥰
I am so thankful you put this video out. I haven't butchered chickens since the 90's/early 2000. It was done a whole different way and obviously not the rite way. Saving this video because I've ordered our meat birds and will be butchering this way. Thank you
Thanks for the help! We did our first butcher of 73 chickens yeaterday, approximately 350 lbs of meat. This video was our GREAT reference point for the how to do. Your family is an inspiration and information source for healthy organic homemade and grown options that we appreciate soooo much. God Bless you and yours. Keep up the good work.
This year add some PVC pipe risers to the tables to raise them up a bit. It will help save your backs! Tip from experience. Love seeing your process and everyone working together. #homesteadgoals
Grew up on a farm. We mainly used our chickens for eggs, but we did occasionally butcher them. I'm desensitized, but I'm sure my kids would be squeamish at the site! Haha. Honestly, it's a great skill to have even if you don't own a farm or a homestead. It could save someone in hard times.
Thank you for sharing this info. I have never butchered an animal but I use to go moose hunting with my step father when I was younger. I think everyone should see where their food comes from. Great info
Some thoughts: If you put wood chips on the ground in the work area, no one will be standing in the mud all day. What about putting ice in the giblet buckets, to keep them cool. What about rigor mortis? I thought that all meats should be chilled (not frozen) for 24+/- hours to let the rigor relax, and then frozen. Freezing so soon after slaughter makes for tough chewy meat. If you remove the feet (and heads) before the birds go into the plucker, they won't tangle up like you said your birds do, and the nails and beaks won't damage other skins. It's great that you have such good friends who will come and help you process your birds. I look forward to watching more of your Homestead videos.
How awesome, I sit here thinking how I have wasted most of my life, I should have taken my 4 children and live even Half of the way ya'll are living, I am 66 now, and raise a garden, I want to cry with joy at the way your family are preserving and raising everything you eat,
This is honestly just amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing. I'm totally crushing on the awesome equipment & set-up you guys have. 😉 It looks like a CRAZY, whirlwind day, THANK YOU for taking the time to share it with us! :)
Such an awesome video. I love how friends and family come together to get the job done. More hands make the work load light. We love getting together for large amounts of canning and of course splitting the goods amongst families. So much fun. Y'all are awesome. Keep smiling and preserving. Thanks again.
Absolutely IMPRESSIVE!!! 😲 Josh & Carolyn you two and your family and friends are just AMAZING 😳 God bless you all richly and thank you SO MUCH 👍🏻 for teaching us so well!! 📝
The feathers and stuff you're putting in the five gallon bucket, the chicken plants send to get processed into dog food. The feathers apparently have a lot of protein. I picked up a job at a chicken processing plant in order to learn the ins and outs of this process. Next time, I would suggest cutting part, if not half, of your chickens into parts. Good food grade scissors make cutting whole chickens into parts a snap.
This reminds me of my brother who is an organic farmer (more than organic, he uses horses to plow his fields). He raises all his own poultry including turkeys and Guiney foul , goats for milk, and pigs. He also make use of his six children for help. I think you might like to get in touch with him because you seem like two families in the same place. I'd love to get get you together because I want more people around the world to get involved in farming like this (I am an English teacher in Korea at a boarding school in the country where farming is a big part of our school culture). I found this video one and a half years late, but I hope you see this comment.
Wow that was impressive. Thanks for sharing your process. I was raised with chickens and ducks but was never around the processing. Learned so much. Thank you again and god bless.
I've only ever been told about butchering chickens from my family and have never seen how it is done before. The process has been modernized, but quite a bit of it is the same... from the stories I've heard. Im sure my family would have benefited from the cone killer, opposed to cutting off the heads and having to chase the headless chickens around. My mom's job was to catch the headless chickens. This is a very interesting video, Thank you for sharing!
My husband, kids, and I have done that before but not on that scale. Also done it with my parents. None of us had a machine to do the plucking. That is so time consuming by hand. Thanks for sharing. I always learn something when I watch your videos. I have never thought to render the chicken fat. I would love to see a video of how to do that. Many thanks!!
Thanks for sharing this video! It was impressive and most of all respectful to the chickens. Question, when you seal the chicken in the plastic wrap, how long does last in the freezer? Can you show a video of this process as well?
I LOVED seeing how the meat is processed! It was very easy to understand, I learned a ton of info on how my chicken gets to my family dinner. I think it's incredibly important that we embrace the real farm to table, you know? It's easy to buy in the store, but it's dedication, love for home, family and friends that makes that meat special. It's honoring the animal, versus picking up a random package of meat in the store.
I realize this was filmed quite a bit ago, but I, for one, would really appreciate a voice overstep by step explanation when you slow it down. I was watching this with my daughter because I think it's important for her to know where her nuggets come from.
Very nice setup. Mine is similar. I would recommend putting blocks under the feet of your tables. Less bending over and less strain on the back makes for a much more pleasant work experience. I can typically do 100 birds in about 9 hours if my wife helps get the pin feathers out for me. My scalder is defiantly my choke point. Also to save a LOT of space in the freezer, I split my birds in half. Its more bags and a bit more time, but more then makes up for it in freezer space and cost.
That was an excellent video. At some point I will be able to do this. I will watch this video again. I have some experience and you answered the questions I had. Thank you for sharing 👍👍
I'm impressed at your kids' work ethic
Country kids learn how to work.
Oh man! I've never seen how this is done. When I saw the title I had such an aversion to watching this... But then I thought damn, I'm willing to buy, cook and eat chicken from the store but I'm not willing to see how it's done?? So glad I watched. This is good to understand and to see. Thanks for sharing.
Exactly me as well! Really glad I got to see this. Well put together!
This is how ots done on a small scale. You should see the places doing 1400 lbs of chicken every 15 minutes
I'm glad you did. The chicken bought at the store is not processed humanly like this.
@@terrim.602 So true . Those chickens in the video are just livin their best life right to the last minute .
I'm one who cries at "Bambi" and didn't know how I'd handle this - I watched my papaw wring the neck of a chicken, and it's body flapped and squawked running down the hill, and it really affected me back then. But you guys made it look easy and humane. Thank you for doing this - those of us who are considering this lifestyle are learning so much from you.
Taking the lives of these chickens is NOT humane and shouldn’t be easy…taking a life should never be easy…
@@TheCatholicVegan Are you a non meat eater?
To save aching backs, you can use 30cm lengths of poly pipe as extenders on the legs of the tables for a much better working height.
Absolutely great idea!
Isn't it amazing what a group of people can accomplish when they work together. When i was sixteen I raised 525 chickens from Murray Mcmurry Hatchery afterwe had fed them 1 1/2 ton of feed we butchered, starting at 530 in the morning and finished around 11 at night. What a day two chopping, one scalding and keeping the water hot, 3 plucking and 5 dressing in the cooking area in the cool basement. Needless to say we all slept well that night. In August the group would get together to freeze corn, make apple butter or sauce, or butcher a steer or hogs. Many hands made light work. It's great to see that happening again.
Man! I love apple butter!
Wow!! Truth!
Your children were so helpful, they deserve a huge round of applause. Fascinating to watch even though I am never going to do it.
I have SO much respect and appreciation for your lifestyle and that you are teaching your children to be self-sufficient. I was not raised this way and, though I would like to learn, I am not sure I can manage it! It is both shocking and fascinating!!! Thank you for sharing this and thank you to the beautiful chickens.
Thank you so much!
I haven't seen a "normal" looking chicken since I was a kiddo and helped with our chicken harvesting, so this was a reminder of what a healthy bird should look like. 25 was the most we ever did in a day, no machinery, just lots of hands. Thanks for sharing, especially on such a busy day!
My husband and I processed 6, SIX!, chickens and it took us around 8 hours. It was our first time. And honestly, probably our last time 😅 we did hand pluck them. But we decided that buying our fryers from the butcher is A-OK 👌🏻
I processed my first turkeys for thanksgiving ! It took roughly 1 hour each turkey! I had 1 helper , thank godess for my plucker !
This took my back to my grandmothers house in a village in South Africa. Every christmas when we came home from boarding school, I miss the village life. thank you for sharing
Thank you so much for showing the entire process. More of our children need to see how this is done.
Really useful video, thanks from an Englishman living in France.
Glad it was helpful!
This channel is absolutely phenomenal! You are doing a real service sharing this information. Thanks!
Thank you to these farmers and the chickens for giving their time and life energy to help us live a healthy long life.
California Carnivores hug trees too ☮️
what a amazing family
i just found this channel and i have been watching it for the last few hours
That is amazing!! That scalder and plucker really was a humongous help! I had to laugh when I saw Josh sticking his hand in-I expected a packet of gizzards to come out!! 🤣🤣🤣
And the neck!!!!
I love watching homesteading, but I am 56 this year, disabled, but I love watching there are many I watch. I am an intel youtube junkie. The most info in my brain the better. I have had two seizures in the last year so my mind is fried, so this is helping my processing rerouting away from the injury of my brain. Thank you for sharing I will be watching and catching up. TY Marilyn
God bless x
Awesome video - we just processed our chickens last weekend for the family. It's always fun family memories...one thing I noticed that might help is we put the tables on blocks to our height so we are not bending over all day cutting/eviscerating/bagging the chickens. It was so much better on our backs at the end of the day :)
Joyce Schaffer I’m doing this next time too- it definitely saves your back! You’d think I’d have that figured out by now! Thanks for the reminder!!
Dutchsinse
It's always fun family memories....nutcase
My dad was a preacher and when we lived in northern Minnesota, one of the parishioners paid his tithe in live chickens. I remember standing next to the butcher block helping my dad butcher chickens at the age of 4. Also, there was a professional fisherman that paid his tithe in fish and I helped my dad clean fish. Fond memories of spending time with my dad.
This was amazing. I showed my 9 year old son the video. I think is good to know where the meat we eat comes from and how it gets to our plate. There needs to be more of this.
I would love to be homesteading. But for the moment we will live the dream through you all xxx
Y’all are the hardest working people I know!!! Thank you for sharing 😀
I've never seen chickens being prepared. What an effective and efficient team you are
This is realistic Farm life. This is the first time I’ve seen this. Thank you for being real and showing this.
Wow! What an operation. You are lucky to have such faithful friends. I'm sure you help them as much as they help you. You are an inspiration!
Oh my goodness.... we butchered 66 and I thought that was a lot. Good job! Thanks for sharing.
Kudos to you both for having your kids help with this. Such an important skill to know!
I had never seen how chickens are processed before. Thank you for filming the entire process! I don't homestead yet, but I think I could do this.
Thanks for taking us along; that was extra work on top of the butchering.
What a group of people❤👏🏻👏🏻, and the children are so awesome!, great job with your life😍
Awesome set up fast processing and little stress for the chickens makes for beautiful tender meat.
I am so missing my parents. Mama raised every name chicken-bird you can name. Yard birds taste so delicious.
DO YOU ALL SELL YOUR BIRDS THROUGH THE MAIL?. Eating a naturally raised chicken taste is different from ones in stores.
WISH I COULD BUY AT LEAST 5-DRESSED CHICKENS. Watching your channel brings back great memories.... GREAT FAMILY!!!
Thank you for making this video and not shying away from showing everything. I think it is so important to see things like this. Even to those of us who don't have land or our own chickens. I must say, the way you all went about processing them seemed very peaceful, efficient, and humane. Also, that is an exciting amount of necks and feet! I can just imagine how delicious and nourshing that broth will be
Thanks for taking the time to video throughout such a busy day! And I don't know how you all stayed on your feet bent over working for that long!! We pull up chairs and sit at the tables when processing chickens for hours.
So happy you will get to enjoy many meals of meat that you raised yourselves, knowing how they were raised and what they were fed. That's a real blessing these days.
Great Video! We grew and processed 200 chickens for several years while our kids were still in the house. Sweet memories! After the first time I put blocks under the table legs for an easier working height for long hours. So much easier on the back!
I love watching your channel! Thanks for sharing!
Rendered chicken fat is called schmaltz in Yiddish and is used in many traditional Jewish dishes. My favorite is latkes, shredded potatoes, grated onion, eggs, matzo meal and a little salt and pepper. Fry in schmaltz, not too high a temp, until golden brown. Drain on paper towels and serve with sour cream. Delicious!!💓
Much reverence and gratitude is needed from all those who benefited from such sacrifice on the hens' part.
I gotta say, I don’t know how many years it will take me to get to the point of harvesting my own chickens, but I’d say you must be breaking even, if not having a surplus, since you compared the price of chickens per lb to the grocery store, BUT, most stores don’t provide feet or necks or other fats, AND you’re even getting compost out of the deal to further other growth on your land.
I absolutely love nature and the permaculture theory of nothing going to waste and how a bit of hard work can create SO MUCH wealth.
Thanks so much for sharing your lives and your knowledge with us! 🥰
Awesome, the kids are super workers!! First time I saw the whole process. Loved it
Excellent video full of details! Great seeing your family and friends working together! 🤜🤛💪
Wow! Well done! Thank you for showing the whole process!
Thanks for the tutorial. We are looking into a plucked also. That scaulder was pretty cool also. Guests make the work more fun. Good for you all.
In the 60's when I was a kid, our family of 5 would do 75 in a day. That was alot for us. No fancy pluckn machine neither...lol.
I am so thankful you put this video out. I haven't butchered chickens since the 90's/early 2000. It was done a whole different way and obviously not the rite way. Saving this video because I've ordered our meat birds and will be butchering this way. Thank you
working together - family and community, how much can be achieved - great video.
What a great set-up! The right equipment makes all the difference. Looks like you had a great crew too, that always makes the day go by faster.
Great video! Love how all of you work together 🥰
yOU GUYS ARE ONE WONDERFUL FAMILY. iI REALL ENJOY ALL YOUR VIDEOS... THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Wow! That was an amazing day spent with your family. Unbelievable, the amount of chicks you processed.
Fantastic info and video. Thank you both for sharing!
It was just like the old days but you’re equipment was so nice didn’t have that luxury. Fantastic job
Very interesting. I always wondered how to process a chicken. Thank you for showing us how it is done. 👍👍👍😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks for the help! We did our first butcher of 73 chickens yeaterday, approximately 350 lbs of meat. This video was our GREAT reference point for the how to do. Your family is an inspiration and information source for healthy organic homemade and grown options that we appreciate soooo much. God Bless you and yours. Keep up the good work.
great job!!!! I have never done anything close to that number of birds and I was very impressed with how you did it all!!
Loved this. Thank you guys!
This year add some PVC pipe risers to the tables to raise them up a bit. It will help save your backs! Tip from experience. Love seeing your process and everyone working together. #homesteadgoals
Mind boggling, awe inspiring and just plain NUTS in the best way possible. I truly admire you folks.
Wow!!! You guys have this down! Excellent organization and teamwork! Thank you for making this video.
So much good info here! Loved seeing your family and community working together. Thanks for sharing💗
Grew up on a farm. We mainly used our chickens for eggs, but we did occasionally butcher them. I'm desensitized, but I'm sure my kids would be squeamish at the site! Haha. Honestly, it's a great skill to have even if you don't own a farm or a homestead. It could save someone in hard times.
Thanks! Always get some good ideas/tips from you.
Fantastic video, well done! Thank you for sharing in such detail. Your kids are amazing for helping as well. ❤
Thank you for sharing this info. I have never butchered an animal but I use to go moose hunting with my step father when I was younger. I think everyone should see where their food comes from. Great info
Some thoughts: If you put wood chips on the ground in the work area, no one will be standing in the mud all day. What about putting ice in the giblet buckets, to keep them cool. What about rigor mortis? I thought that all meats should be chilled (not frozen) for 24+/- hours to let the rigor relax, and then frozen. Freezing so soon after slaughter makes for tough chewy meat. If you remove the feet (and heads) before the birds go into the plucker, they won't tangle up like you said your birds do, and the nails and beaks won't damage other skins. It's great that you have such good friends who will come and help you process your birds. I look forward to watching more of your Homestead videos.
Thanks! You seem to know so much! How many chickens have you butchered?
I'm trying to live like ya'll one day. Thanks for sharing!
How awesome, I sit here thinking how I have wasted most of my life, I should have taken my 4 children and live even Half of the way ya'll are living, I am 66 now, and raise a garden, I want to cry with joy at the way your family are preserving and raising everything you eat,
You guys make me Miss being a kid I used to have so much fun On the farm Working with everybody In my family.
I can still smell the hot, scalded wet chicken feathers when my aunt and uncle harvested chickens. No thank you! Y'all did great !
Your family is amazing!!!!!!!!!!! I learned a lot from this video. JOB WELL DONE!!!
This is honestly just amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing. I'm totally crushing on the awesome equipment & set-up you guys have. 😉 It looks like a CRAZY, whirlwind day, THANK YOU for taking the time to share it with us! :)
Awesome job!
Can you do a video of rendering the fat?
Such an awesome video. I love how friends and family come together to get the job done. More hands make the work load light. We love getting together for large amounts of canning and of course splitting the goods amongst families. So much fun. Y'all are awesome. Keep smiling and preserving. Thanks again.
This is a great video! That looks like a ton of really hard work. Thank you.
that is a lot of chickens. we only did 12 birds and it is an awesome task but so worth it.
This was great information, very helpful! I have so much respect for all of you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. Wonderful to see the kids helping out in the process.
Absolutely IMPRESSIVE!!! 😲
Josh & Carolyn you two and your family and friends are just AMAZING 😳
God bless you all richly and thank you SO MUCH 👍🏻 for teaching us so well!! 📝
Wow what an amazing video. 211 birds...so impressive! Thank you for sharing. Great info!
WOW WOW WOW! Is all I can say. Y'all are amazing. Blessings, julie
Well done!
The feathers and stuff you're putting in the five gallon bucket, the chicken plants send to get processed into dog food. The feathers apparently have a lot of protein. I picked up a job at a chicken processing plant in order to learn the ins and outs of this process. Next time, I would suggest cutting part, if not half, of your chickens into parts. Good food grade scissors make cutting whole chickens into parts a snap.
This reminds me of my brother who is an organic farmer (more than organic, he uses horses to plow his fields). He raises all his own poultry including turkeys and Guiney foul , goats for milk, and pigs. He also make use of his six children for help. I think you might like to get in touch with him because you seem like two families in the same place. I'd love to get get you together because I want more people around the world to get involved in farming like this (I am an English teacher in Korea at a boarding school in the country where farming is a big part of our school culture). I found this video one and a half years late, but I hope you see this comment.
Brought back some memories.
Wow that was impressive. Thanks for sharing your process. I was raised with chickens and ducks but was never around the processing. Learned so much. Thank you again and god bless.
Amazing!!! Thank you so much.
I've only ever been told about butchering chickens from my family and have never seen how it is done before. The process has been modernized, but quite a bit of it is the same... from the stories I've heard.
Im sure my family would have benefited from the cone killer, opposed to cutting off the heads and having to chase the headless chickens around. My mom's job was to catch the headless chickens.
This is a very interesting video, Thank you for sharing!
Impressive everyone has there job, it went so smoothely
My husband, kids, and I have done that before but not on that scale. Also done it with my parents. None of us had a machine to do the plucking. That is so time consuming by hand. Thanks for sharing. I always learn something when I watch your videos. I have never thought to render the chicken fat. I would love to see a video of how to do that. Many thanks!!
Great team work folks! Very informative video. Thanks for sharing.
Great! Love the work paying off and having good times in the process
Great day for you all!! Loved the video and how you processed and use everything! Blessings
Thanks for sharing this video! It was impressive and most of all respectful to the chickens. Question, when you seal the chicken in the plastic wrap, how long does last in the freezer? Can you show a video of this process as well?
That was great, it was good to see the entire process and how the equipment worked.
I LOVED seeing how the meat is processed! It was very easy to understand, I learned a ton of info on how my chicken gets to my family dinner.
I think it's incredibly important that we embrace the real farm to table, you know? It's easy to buy in the store, but it's dedication, love for home, family and friends that makes that meat special. It's honoring the animal, versus picking up a random package of meat in the store.
Wow, what an awesome video.. Your family is absolutely amazing!! 🤗🙏🏻❤️
Thanks for sharing! Enjoyed seeing your process.
I realize this was filmed quite a bit ago, but I, for one, would really appreciate a voice overstep by step explanation when you slow it down. I was watching this with my daughter because I think it's important for her to know where her nuggets come from.
Very nice setup. Mine is similar. I would recommend putting blocks under the feet of your tables. Less bending over and less strain on the back makes for a much more pleasant work experience. I can typically do 100 birds in about 9 hours if my wife helps get the pin feathers out for me. My scalder is defiantly my choke point. Also to save a LOT of space in the freezer, I split my birds in half. Its more bags and a bit more time, but more then makes up for it in freezer space and cost.
WOW!!! That was awesome and the reward of home grown meat is priceless! Great video and the kids did a wonderful job too!!!
That was an excellent video. At some point I will be able to do this. I will watch this video again. I have some experience and you answered the questions I had. Thank you for sharing 👍👍
I so wish we could all be homesteading.