Hello, glad to hear you are raising meat birds! We highly recommend utilizing a scalder/plucker in your processing. If you can't afford to purchase one yet, they are often available to rent or borrow from nearby farmers/homesteaders and are well worth it for the time savings.
If you have the space and a built-in method of feeding them so you don't have to rely on commercial feeds, you can start with a small dual breed laying flock and incubate your own eggs to produce home broilers. Just do your own research first.
I travelled 800km to see him do this and it was worth it!! ❤️
I watched him do on homestead of America online and that was it. Great teacher
Thank you Joel! My wife and I are just starting out on our farming journey...Lots to learn.
Best of luck, the journey is worth it!
The poultry establishment is work at is 15 min from kill to chill at 145 bpm
Great video! I miss doing this stuff!
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Same here!
Thank you so much for this video
You are welcome, Hope it helps!
My needs are a fraction of this setup, but. Learning by example and thinking how to implement this at our scale is invaluable info.
Great halaal slaughter i want this set up
Joel is the best!
Nice Joel!
Appreciate you watching! 👨🌾
That is outstanding!
Good timing. We have 60% roosters in our new flock of hatched eggs. 🙃
Outstanding video ! We get to do ours this year using the scalder & plucker … gonna be interesting for sure ..
That's David Goppelt loading birds in the cones.
Love your videos ❤
What do you do with the blood and feathers and scrap guts after? Can you compost it ?
Just started doing our own meat birds last year and takes us about 30 mins per bird. (We are hand plucking) any tips to speed things up? Thanks😊
Hello, glad to hear you are raising meat birds! We highly recommend utilizing a scalder/plucker in your processing. If you can't afford to purchase one yet, they are often available to rent or borrow from nearby farmers/homesteaders and are well worth it for the time savings.
Homeboy wears a belt and suspenders to keep his pants up 😂
What is the perfect texture for the scalder ?
Is there any way to easily remove the feathers without scalding?
No.
How can you make the chickens more affordable?
I thought chicken was high priced as well, so I raised my own. Now I gladly pay to have someone else raise them!
@@severson42 ya got a good point
Raise them , let silkies hatch new babies out .. cycle of new chickens.. that how we do it .! Eggs & chickens always on the homestead 🏡
If you have the space and a built-in method of feeding them so you don't have to rely on commercial feeds, you can start with a small dual breed laying flock and incubate your own eggs to produce home broilers. Just do your own research first.