Do not acknowledge the Dislikes. You are showing real life. I appreciate you showing this as I am trying to learn how to produce my own food and avoid a blind grocery store. I say blind because most of the people disliking this video eat chicken but don't want to see the truth. Thank You again.
I just started my Ranch. It has a been a little over 7 months. This was my first time processing a chicken. I was a little afraid to do it. However, after watching your video, I did it with ease. Thank you so Much!!! I have saved this video for all my future processing. Thank you so much!!
As a chef I love these videos. If your gonna buy meat from a grocery store you should know an animal gave their life for your dinner. Keep up the good work
You are exactly right . People are disconnected from their food . Most people today don't realize and don't think about how it got on a grocery Shelf . Someone having to kill the animal and clean it.
Haha an animal just didn't gave the life for your food you rob the life from him. By the way if I will convert to non veg I will eat these nonveg people first
The way you talk us through your processes has to be the best on you tube. Your keeping alive the old school skills many of my generation have lost and for someone like myself, who dreams of and is working towards a life on the land, your value is immeasurable, thank you.
Good informative video. I'm 81 now and back in '50-'51 ,I worked @ a local grocery store. Every Thur. we processed about 50 chickens for the weekend. Had 2 30 gal. garbage cans on a 3 burner gas hotplate. We ha electric powered plucker , with a rotating druim. Worked real good. I remember getting an egg from them ,while cleaning them. That was a bonus. I think I could still clean them blindfolded,from doing so many. I do like chicken.......yet.
Man...that's cool...thanks so much for that story....so many folks have done so much in their lives...wish we could hear them all....thanks Don...I appreciate you're comment buddy
Josh, I am now 77 years old, and this reminds me of being a kid in South Carolina. Sunday was chicken day. My job was to catch a chicken on the yard, wring his neck, and let him flop around for a couple minutes. Then take the hatchet, and remove his head and let him bleed out. Next came the boiling water. He got dunked, and the we hand plucked all the feathers off, and singed the bird to remove any thing your fingers missed. Great video.
Oh yeah, that's the old school way. Old school way definitely works just fine tho. I remember my grandma killed more than a few chickens just the same way
They should give a medal to the first person who created the automated chicken plucker. That thing is like a miracle. I wonder if someone can create an induction burner to improve the process of maintaining the water temperature for the scalding process. That seems to be the part of the process that really slows things down (maintaining the water level / temperature). An induction cooktop can boil water in as little as four minutes. So, from the second you add the cold water, in as little as four minutes, it can reach the boiling point. As those who have watched this process before, the water does not need to get to the boiling part, but only about 145 degrees or so.
Oh, the snowflakes just can;t take it, don't you know you need to go to the store and buy that chicken in those pretty plastic packages. Too bad he feels he can;t show he whole process, this could be a great channel if it wasn't for the snowflakes. 👎
I am in the beginning process of getting my first laying hens and came across this video. I kept watching because well I do think we are so dissociated with where and how our food is handled...myself included! I am so so glad you did not show the kill part. And this made me very much appreciate a small farm as opposed to the large factories. I can't and do not want to imagine how the animal is treated there. Anyway, thanks for this.
TIP (BROTH): People always toss out the skin, because it lacks bones or meat ... but what it does have plenty of is collagen, which breaks down into gelatin with long slow simmering. That gelatin is what gives a good broth most of its mouthfeel and ability to set a gel when chilled (bones contain gelatin too, but most of the gelatin in a broth comes from the skin). Skin also contains fat, which can be skimmed off and reserved as schmaltz. Even if you dont use the skin when making broth, if you have schmaltz handy you can use it to render the skin for more schmaltz, after which you're left with yummy cracklings (aka "gribenes" in yiddish).
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer The feet also make a great treat for both dogs and cats whove been acclimated to a raw diet (ala BARF or PMR) ... just trim off the nails. Feet can also make great chinese/taiwanese style dim sum, for those who know how, and have the patience. Global cuisine is a hobby of mine. Cheers ... im enjoying your content. Thanks ! 😁
When I was a young child, I used to get attacked repeatedly by this one rooster on my grandparent's farm. I overheard my grandmother telling my grandfather to get a rooster for Sunday dinner. I got to finger the offending culprit and had the best dinner ever. Chickens eat vegetables. I eat chickens. I, therefore, am a vegetarian.
Glad I stayed up late. I can control the hook of a bowling ball, load and fire an M-777 howitzer, and process chickens. One step closer to being ready for the apocalypse.
never had any luck with the straw...it was just in the way and accomplished nothing that I couldnt do with my hands...I tried to use it...but it simply did me no good...maybe I need a better technique
My grandfather used to hang the chicken upside down from a tree after beheading. This was to keep from flipping and flopping and draining blood. I wasn't allowed to watch, but I peaked out the window once. I learned quite a bit from your video, thanks!
My mother-in-law taught me the process after this city girl married her son and moved to the country. Imagine my surprise when the first one I relieved of its head (using an axe) chased me around the yard and jumped up the inside of my skirt! What an initiation! We didn’t have the equipment you do, so it took us much longer doing it all by hand. Appreciated your ideas on the tub of ice water and not using a self defrosting freezer!
You can't supply millions of people with meat without mass production or so-called "factory farming." You do what you can to eliminate needless suffering on the part of the animal, but that is a secondary concern to the ability to feed people. Chicken welfare really ought to be a very distant second to human welfare.
I'd put a curtain between the process and the coup and some loud music on the chicken coup side. Some even use radio wave frequency to make the chickens calm. Without this every chick in the coup will know that they are next.....
Alexander Scott funny we didn’t have factory farming before 1960 or so and people grew their own food at home. Also we didn’t have 100 million non-White people with less than a high school degree in this country
Do we want to return to a time when each of us grew our own food for mere subsistence? That was the state of humanity until the Industrial Revolution. We should be grateful for "Big Agriculture" because it's what allows us to have cheap, plentiful food without worrying about starving like our ancestors did.
@@alexanderscott2456 false, have everyone have their own damn coop and process their own chickens, larger farms that can process more can step in to fill any gaps for apartment dwellers. Infact in the 60s america promoted having your own coops and growing your own food, doing that nowadays your labeled a prepper and theyve already made that a dirty word. Funny how the thought process changed in 40 years. In a way were slaves to corporate trade now, and we do it by choice.
I'm someone from the general public watching. Watched the whole video. Enlightened me how farmers process chickens. That bird went into the plucker and the little kid in me started crying lol. But thank u for what u do. Wish I was closer to u I'd like to get my hands on a fresh bird for eating. I bet they taste good.
The grown ass woman in me bawled me head off thinking of my babies ending up like that. :( I know it's reality and I want the fresh meat. I just don't want to see them as the birds I fed and tended to. Put them in my freezer and let me be oblivious. :)
My step-mothers least favorite job during the chicken harvest was the plucking. The farm, back in the 1920's and 1930's didn't have a fancy chicken plucker like you have. It was all done by hand and she just hated having to do the plucking. I'm glad to see that things have moved on since then. Thanks for the educational video. I've learned a lot of good information. Peace be with you and the family.
Great video, I worked at a commercial chicken abattoir, obviously an entirely different process to accommodate the slaughter of 15,000 chickens a day, thanks for sharing how it’s done to feed your family on your own property, it’s an easy and efficient process. Cheers 👍
kennycybertron1 your stomach is welcome 😀 It was a small chicken process facility compared to the big chicken chains, the forklifts would unload the trucks and tip them onto a conveyer belt, and a group of people would hang them up by the feet, they would travel across to the kill section where their heads would get dipped into a tub of water that has an electric current running trough it, it would stun them, then it was my job to line their heads up for the spinning blades that would cut both sides of the neck, sometimes they would pull their heads between their wings and miss the water and blades completely, so I’d have to kill by hand with a knife. It was a good job if you don’t mind standing in one spot doing the same thing all day, but we got paid well, the kill section got the highest pay rate, I worked my way up to the top job, I started packing wings and legs, it was my goal to be the slaughter man. 😉 Someone has to do the dirty work so we can all enjoy tasty chicken dinners 😀
I found your channel today because I would like to raise chickens for eggs and came accross this video. When I was young about 7 maybe I visit my family in puerto rico and I remember my grandma showing me this process. The old school way. I am glad this video exist because now I am really craving the self sufficient life style. This video was extremely educational! Because now its a new process. More modern compared to what I once saw. Thank you very much.
Got my plucker 2 weeks ago, chickens from Meyer hatchery (I highly recommend them as well) and will be doing around 40 chickens in 2 days. Glad I ran across your setup because now I get to aggravate the wife about a few more things we need! Great watch buddy have a good one!!
Very educational. I remember my grandfather killing some chickens for our Sunday family meal. Then my aunts would do their part ( plucking the feathers, cleaning and cooking). Like your video, a true family operation.
I followed this chicken tractor… somewhat…. And have v no regrets… except I added two 6” wheels so me and my granddaughter ( first rate helper). Can move the coop so, so, so… much easier!!!! This is an amazing plan. Well done!!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!
I know people who haven't a clue, and not just young people, either. The 40s lady across the street asked me what kind of bush or vine wheat berries grew on. My next door neighbor had some wheat growing and I went and got a stalk. The lady was surprised, she didn't know wheat was a grain. When did they start calling the grains "wheat berries" anyway? A lot of people don't know ham and bacon are pork, or that pork is hog or pig.
Wen I was six my dad and i butchered one of our chickens I found the experience very interesting. I am totally blind and this video was so professional done that i could enjoy it. Nice job!
I really like how you don't beat around the bush you raise the animal you're killing it. People saying oh I harvested this I harvested that last time I checked animals aren't vegetables. Very good video what is the length of that equipment that would make the job easy.
I grew up butchering the old fashioned way. You don't have to scald the gizzard to remove the lining. Just cut down the middle and rinse away the contents and peel away the layer. It comes away easily.
Not gonna lie, I was raised by a country family but lived a city girl life and now that I am older have gone the country way. We have an enormous garden and hens that just started laying and one of the things I wanted to be sure I was able to understand and do should we also get birds for meat or even use our hens for meat once they stop laying (still learning- not sure if that is a thing) This was very very helpful. I feel confident not only that I can do it but that I can understand the process easy. Thanks for that. I bookmarked the page for future ref.
Great Video. Presentation was appropriate for your message and RUclips. I worked on a farm as a kid and we did 10 chickens on Saturday for Sunday's Dinner, we had guests. We scald dipped the birds and then hand plucked. Hair was singed off. Easy work compared to the field. Nice job with the heat wrapping. Best of luck.
I almost didn't watch the clip cause i didn't want to see the decapitation with my morning coffee but wanted to see the rest of the info. Thanks for letting me enjoy my coffee :)
You are very welcome.....lots of comments saying the very opposite....looking for the kill....If ya can't figure out how to kill a chicken....well ya probably should buy them at the grocery store right? lol
Thank you! We are almost ready to harvest our first batch of meat chickens. I didn't know what I was doing so I bought the wrong kind of chicken but life is a learning lesson everyday. I appreciate the detail with which you explained everything. We are new to homesteading but hope to be able to teach others as you have taught us. Thank you, again!
Im a Californian my chickin comes from the supermarket lol But you not only showed class But respect to the field and i didnt feel wrong about watching this like i thought i would. Thank you for taking the blow out of it
Very interesting. I remember when i was a kid my papaw used to hang the live chicken by its feet on a tree and then cut off the head and then my mom would put them in a bucket of hot water to scald them and then she plucked them. We only did enough for dinner that day though. You do a fantastic job on these videos. Thanks for sharing.
Back in the early 1950's we had chicken every time a car hit one on the gravel road . I jokingly tell people that my brother and I used to put a little corn in the road.
Josh, need to get a poly bag tape dispenser for sealing your bags. I use one for processing my ground meat. Time saver. Trims and seals bag ends.. love the vlog keep up the good work..
Thank you. Informative with minimal BS. Didn’t realize water temp was an issue. Looking at a plucker on Amazon. Reasonable price. I have the large propane burner and a heavy stainless stock pot.
Could you do a video on composting chicken poop/coop sweepings/etc. I think you're the one to listen to when I go to try this. These videos should be shown at Agricultual High Schools and such learning institutions.
Really good video. Have cleaned a few ducks from hunting before, and remember the plucking being the worst job, so had concerns about raising chickens for meat, but that plucker makes it look so easy. made me reconsider, I think I will go for it. thanks
So much easier than the way my dad and i did it when i was little. We used an old hot water heater to scold and ruber gloves to hand pick hahahaha. needless to say it sucked. Great videos. Thank you for always breaking down what you are doing and how you do it. I learn every time I watch.
I remember doing this as a kid on my aunt and uncles farm. Pretty much the same process w/o the nice new equipment. We singed off any left over hair/fuzz/feathers with a torch before throwing them in the ice water. Those were great days, awesome video.
Thanks for all the videos. I’m gonna be getting started on having chickens on my land and love your ideas, and knowledge. So I have a couple of questions: how do you know when it’s time for the chickens to become part of your freezer? And chickens that lay eggs only, what do you with them when their life cycle is about to be done?
You can use laying birds for broth. Dogs like the feet. Unfortunately older layers don't have much meat left on them at the end. I've seen a lot of people use these for broths though. (I only have young birds and haven't yet dealt with an older hen) I plan to use them in that way.
That's fine in theory but what happens when society falls apart? It happens all too frequently. Both of my sons are social intellectuals. One is a software specialist and the other is a geologist with a focus on hydrology. Both of them know how to grow food, raise animals, hunt, fish, clean and cook. They camp, work on their own houses and cars. At the same time they are both kind and gentle men. They can shoot anything from black powder to machine guns and neither has served a day in the military. Society is the big paper machett lie. It works as long as you don't test it. Then it's everybody for themselves. We are social people. We all live in suburban neighborhoods. But we're just as comfortable in the woods. It's not enough to teach your children to read and write anymore. You have to teach then alot of things our parents didn't teach us. New things like computers and technology. Old things like how to shoot a duck then prepare it for dinner. If or when the crap hits the fan, the first people to suffer will be the ones unable or unwilling to take care of themselves. Why wait for a handout?
Not everyone needs this skill we can survive without it. So saying "all" people need it is a stretch. In a survival situation as an ovo-lacto vegetarian for the last twenty years I'd rather keep chickens for their eggs than meat as it's more sustainable and useful. As I know a lot about plants and their different growing needs and nutritional qualities it would be unnecessary to butcher. Each to their own obviously but just pointing out it's not true to say these practices are essential knowledge.
@@NickSBailey I'm not saying the skill is just for chickens. It's the same basic set of skills a person would need for any kind of animal. I probably wouldn't be trading protein rich meats for broccoli or turnips anyway as I have the skill set to grow them as well. I won't have to trade any of those products for a place to live as I also have the skill set to build a variety of good solid dwellings with whatever materials I can find. Im not a prepper by any means. I live in an upper middle class neighborhood. I made my living working as a mechanic, carpenter, meat packer, soldier and a variety of other positions that make me better prepared then alot of preppers. It's one of those "better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it" things. I'd rather know how to prepare a chicken from barn yard to plate then to be standing there waiting for sombody to be kind enough to share theirs with me and my family.
@@fordfan3179 if civilization falls apart i don't want to be alive. Can you imagine how awful it would be a year down the road? people would start getting desperate, every couple miles of road there will be someone camping out just waiting to lit up the next sorry asshole that drives by. You couldn't move anywhere, if you have a chicken coup like this you are 100% painting a massive target on your back. Wed be going back to the stone age, a simple scratch could be a death penalty. Society isn't a lie, that's what nuclear weapons are for. There's a reason no on will ever try to invade a nuclear power(this goes between nuclear powers to). If a single nuke is dropped kiss the entire world goodbye, they will launch every single nuke they possibly can. This simple principle has held our society together since ww2."Peace the old fashioned way". Not saying its bad to learn this information but if you want to spend your time ensuring the longest life possible the safest bet is taking care of your body and exercising.
Hello Josh! Is nice to have your father and your wife working with you! I do still work with my dad, and we have great times together! Thank you for this video, is greatly educational! Also is nice to see your old truck back there like a working hero! Interesting that you or your dad like Dodges! Me too. I think is the best truck especially the second generation of which I have one. Ok my friend, take care and please, keep on producing videos!
Oh my how things have changed! When I was little back in the early 70's we would process 100 chickens in the fall. Since I was the youngest my job was to cross the chickens wings and feet while my Uncle Jeff would put its head between two 16 penny heads on an old Oak block and chop of the chickens head off. Then I had to hold on like hell until the flopping quit! Next we had an outdoor fired cauldron that we would put the chickens in. My Aunt Melinda was a professional chicken plucker. My Cousin then would take the birds into the house where grandma, Mother and my other two Aunts would burn off left over feathers then gut and process. The inards were never thrown away. Gizzards were separated for a deep fried night. The rest were saved for soup or stew.
So nice of you, hate to tell ya this...we divorced late last year. She somehow changed over the last 2-3 years...it was a horrible ordeal....so I'm here on the farm alone...I think she lost sight of what was important...family, working together and love
Thank you the video, can't wait to be able to live off the land and know that what I'm eating has had a good life. This was very helpful and informative
Awesome well done video. I'm just beginning the process of raising and slaughtering chickens for my family's use. I appreciate the time you took to make this to help the less experienced.
As a teen on my grandparents farm I had the job of dispatching the chickens. Unlike you we only did about 4 at a whack. To dispatch the chicken it was held by its feet and its head placed on the ground. An ax handle was placed behind the head and one foot on each side of the handle. Then just stand up pulling the head off. Chickens were placed on their backs and their feet pressed into their breast for a few seconds. This stopped the chickens from running around like...well...chickens with their heads cut off. I learned the feet to breast trick but only after my first kill jumped its way into hanging sheets. We soaked ckickens in a bucket of hot water and I found out I didnt care for plucking them bare handed. Then there were the pin feathers but killing and plucking ended my part. Gutting and dressing was passed on to my dad.
this was actually the best video i've seen on chicken processing so far. you used the least amount of cuts it seemed like and wasted the least. i always have trouble getting the esophagus out of the neck but this cleared that up
I once knew a lady that gave me the eggs of her chickens , cos she wouldn't eat them cos she refused to eat eggs that came out a chickens arse and she rather got them in the store ye know them eggs in a brick , dunno if ye know whzt mean cos i my englisch is limited but anyway i thanked her and told she was right to buy eggs made in a factory . 🤔
My husband and i love your channel.. We just puchased 10 acres..it's going to take us awhile to get set up but . I want to do this with chickens asap... thank you so much for sharing this process.. Would totally be willing to come take classes...Please do that sooner than 2 yrs
Thank you for this video I have my first flock in 1 week and this gave me a major confidence boost it doesn’t seem that complicated I owe you a beer👍🏻🍺
I super duper appreciate your clean and dirty side and that you are showing a good set up.... appreciate that you admit there was an improvement to make....sweet! Thank you much!
I like how educational and informative your videos are I've been researching and learning all I can to become a farmer myself I don't want to be a full-fledged farmer like you guys I want to be the kind that lives off the land and only does it for a self-sustaining. but you guys have taught me a lot and I appreciate how instructional in educational your videos are
"Chicken hugging cones" I like it. Can you show a video on equipments (raising to butchering) needed to operate poultry farm as well as their prices? Thanks
I applaud your decision - and reasons - for not showing the actual dispatch. Thanks! Another great video. Oh, and GREAT tip on the self-defrosting freezer (i.e. NOT using one.)
Steroids is illegal in poultry but yes organic means non nasty way of growing the chicken. If the FDA was honest they'd force non organic products to be labelled because they're the one un-natural while organic simply means normal.
Question about chicken processing, do you need to let a chicken go thru the rigor mortis process before cooking? I have had some chickens we butchered and cooked right away, and some we butchered and cooked a couple of days later. The ones we cooked right away were tougher than the ones that sat in the fridge for a couple of days before cooking. Had a friend tell me that the ones that sat in the fridge had time to go thru rigor mortis and come back to being softer tissue. Was wondering if she was right? And if she was right would you need to do that before freezing or canning? Just wasn’t happy with the tough chicken. So would like to know before I start raising them and processing them to eat again. Only did a few the first time we tried it.
There is a set for 50 dollars (Electric drill) "Chicken Plucker + Medium Killing Cone +Swedish Knife" It looks like the drill version could pluck a turkey. It's a huge mess. Build your own at "chickenpluckerparts" They're called a whizbang.
Thank you so much sir for this video!! I’m about to start raising chickens and I need to the ends and outs of everything. This video was so great!!! It helped me a lot lot…I will be referring back to this video quiet often!!!!
I just culled 6 roosters of 9. May need one more. Omg they were beautiful. I made coq au vin and will add it to the regular menu. Wow!! That was amazing!!!!! My Roos were young so I believe they will be great cooked any way. Please, please!!! Consider that this is not new. People for thousands of years have been butchering the excess roosters and hens too. As they didn’t have the fancy methods of today. These recipes took years of culinary skills. Yes they are worth trying!!!!! “ try it, you might like it “. Lol
I grew up here on a farm in Ill. My dad would buy 100 chicks every spring and we would raise them up for butchering. The methods were basicly the same . we also raised our own beef and hogs for our family meat supply. Rendered our own lard,cleaned casings for sausage eventually started buying sausage casings. Still process our own deer and make sausage and smoke. Wonderful memories. Minus the smell of scalded chickens.
So far my "meat " birds have ended up living long happy lives as I haven't been able to do the first step needed to proceed them lol. However i'm going to follow your tutorial and get a cone and see if I can take care of them that way (figure that way I won't see which bird it is lol). Thanks for the lesson!!!
I watched this when it was published and watched it again a few times today. Not the best day to process ducks but we had a few drakes that needed culling. This video was a big help. Thank you Stoney Ridge Farm.
Very well done. I'm thinking about raising my own meat birds and every step here was exactly what I needed to know without the first hour being all about your dog, work, and every other word being uh uh uh um. Thanks so much!
Great walk-through the whole process. Thanks for sharing. Bookmarked for my first flock next year....
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Do not acknowledge the Dislikes. You are showing real life. I appreciate you showing this as I am trying to learn how to produce my own food and avoid a blind grocery store. I say blind because most of the people disliking this video eat chicken but don't want to see the truth. Thank You again.
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Exactly right, why would you even watch something you don't like? Most are so disconnected from how food is produced and where it comes from.
I’m so glad they still have these videos available. I worry YT will remove them as offensive or violent.
I just started my Ranch. It has a been a little over 7 months. This was my first time processing a chicken. I was a little afraid to do it. However, after watching your video, I did it with ease. Thank you so Much!!! I have saved this video for all my future processing. Thank you so much!!
Awesome!
All I can think about is the movie "Chicken Run". 🤣🤣
Its actually not hard good for you
As a chef I love these videos. If your gonna buy meat from a grocery store you should know an animal gave their life for your dinner. Keep up the good work
Thanks Forest
You are exactly right . People are disconnected from their food . Most people today don't realize and don't think about how it got on a grocery Shelf . Someone having to kill the animal and clean it.
Haha an animal just didn't gave the life for your food you rob the life from him. By the way if I will convert to non veg I will eat these nonveg people first
@@kvm. good luck bud my m1 garand says I'll be eating you first. I need my soy
@@forrestgourney691 depend on the day, anything can happen but someone is gonna eat someone 😀😀
I'm 17 and have two baby chickens a black star and a Easter egger it's my first time raising chickens so I'm watching chicken videos to learn
The way you talk us through your processes has to be the best on you tube. Your keeping alive the old school skills many of my generation have lost and for someone like myself, who dreams of and is working towards a life on the land, your value is immeasurable, thank you.
Clicked on this cause I was expecting gorefest but stayed for the informative and professional view into how chickens are processed on a farm!
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Same here. I respect these guys.
Good informative video. I'm 81 now and back in '50-'51 ,I worked @ a local grocery store. Every Thur. we processed about 50 chickens for the weekend. Had 2 30 gal. garbage cans on a 3 burner gas hotplate. We ha electric powered plucker , with a rotating druim. Worked real good. I remember getting an egg from them ,while cleaning them. That was a bonus. I think I could still clean them blindfolded,from doing so many. I do like chicken.......yet.
Man...that's cool...thanks so much for that story....so many folks have done so much in their lives...wish we could hear them all....thanks Don...I appreciate you're comment buddy
If eating fried chicken is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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Josh, I am now 77 years old, and this reminds me of being a kid in South Carolina. Sunday was chicken day. My job was to catch a chicken on the yard, wring his neck, and let him flop around for a couple minutes. Then take the hatchet, and remove his head and let him bleed out. Next came the boiling water. He got dunked, and the we hand plucked all the feathers off, and singed the bird to remove any thing your fingers missed. Great video.
Oh yeah, that's the old school way. Old school way definitely works just fine tho. I remember my grandma killed more than a few chickens just the same way
They should give a medal to the first person who created the automated chicken plucker. That thing is like a miracle. I wonder if someone can create an induction burner to improve the process of maintaining the water temperature for the scalding process. That seems to be the part of the process that really slows things down (maintaining the water level / temperature). An induction cooktop can boil water in as little as four minutes. So, from the second you add the cold water, in as little as four minutes, it can reach the boiling point. As those who have watched this process before, the water does not need to get to the boiling part, but only about 145 degrees or so.
we did the same thing
Oh, the snowflakes just can;t take it, don't you know you need to go to the store and buy that chicken in those pretty plastic packages. Too bad he feels he can;t show he whole process, this could be a great channel if it wasn't for the snowflakes. 👎
There is something like you waiting for you on the other side. Will do the same. Hope you think it's OK.
looks clean and fresh to me healthy chickens no intensive birds that cant even stand on there own weight
One of the best and most comprehensive teaching sessions you've ever done.
Thanks again for making it so easy.
You're very welcome!
I am in the beginning process of getting my first laying hens and came across this video. I kept watching because well I do think we are so dissociated with where and how our food is handled...myself included! I am so so glad you did not show the kill part. And this made me very much appreciate a small farm as opposed to the large factories. I can't and do not want to imagine how the animal is treated there. Anyway, thanks for this.
TIP (BROTH): People always toss out the skin, because it lacks bones or meat ... but what it does have plenty of is collagen, which breaks down into gelatin with long slow simmering. That gelatin is what gives a good broth most of its mouthfeel and ability to set a gel when chilled (bones contain gelatin too, but most of the gelatin in a broth comes from the skin). Skin also contains fat, which can be skimmed off and reserved as schmaltz.
Even if you dont use the skin when making broth, if you have schmaltz handy you can use it to render the skin for more schmaltz, after which you're left with yummy cracklings (aka "gribenes" in yiddish).
we save the feet, liver, heart, gizzard, neck and use nearly every part of our birds...the feet make great collagen rich broth
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer The feet also make a great treat for both dogs and cats whove been acclimated to a raw diet (ala BARF or PMR) ... just trim off the nails.
Feet can also make great chinese/taiwanese style dim sum, for those who know how, and have the patience. Global cuisine is a hobby of mine.
Cheers ... im enjoying your content. Thanks ! 😁
When I was a young child, I used to get attacked repeatedly by this one rooster on my grandparent's farm. I overheard my grandmother telling my grandfather to get a rooster for Sunday dinner. I got to finger the offending culprit and had the best dinner ever.
Chickens eat vegetables. I eat chickens. I, therefore, am a vegetarian.
Chuck lol
We called him a flogging rooster. But he did protect the chickens.He got me once.
Actually chicken eats everything in sight (worms, meat etc)
A mature rooster is inedible. Its meat cannot be cooked to tenderness,
@@uropygid That was the best freeken' chicken I ever et. After suffering all those bites from him, I got to get the last bite in. :-)
Glad I stayed up late. I can control the hook of a bowling ball, load and fire an M-777 howitzer, and process chickens.
One step closer to being ready for the apocalypse.
Mickey Bitsko I can kind of control the hook of my bowling ball
Hope you mastered all those skills by now.
@donald I was thinking the SAME lol
can you dodge the gunfire from a reaper drone or a A10 warthog. then your ready for the apocalypse.
Do you not chill them during the process?
Use a straw when you're shrink bagging them. Works great
never had any luck with the straw...it was just in the way and accomplished nothing that I couldnt do with my hands...I tried to use it...but it simply did me no good...maybe I need a better technique
I love and respect you for doing all this the right way Sir. God bless you and your family.😊
I agree. He didn't allow the chicks and chickens to suffer before they die. He allowed them to live their lives to the fullest.
My grandfather used to hang the chicken upside down from a tree after beheading. This was to keep from flipping and flopping and draining blood. I wasn't allowed to watch, but I peaked out the window once.
I learned quite a bit from your video, thanks!
I’m a strong animal guy however I can really respect this guy and what he does, great job
Alec Keefe wtf is a strong animal guy? 🤷🏻♂️
Haha
Alec, if you buy meat from the store to eat, I don’t think you can be a “strong animal guy”
@@jonathanbraud5648 thats like saying if you have driven a car you cant support the environment. u dumb
My mother-in-law taught me the process after this city girl married her son and moved to the country. Imagine my surprise when the first one I relieved of its head (using an axe) chased me around the yard and jumped up the inside of my skirt! What an initiation! We didn’t have the equipment you do, so it took us much longer doing it all by hand. Appreciated your ideas on the tub of ice water and not using a self defrosting freezer!
This is how chicken production should be done. Ethical and sanitary. Can't stand industrialized meat.
You can't supply millions of people with meat without mass production or so-called "factory farming." You do what you can to eliminate needless suffering on the part of the animal, but that is a secondary concern to the ability to feed people. Chicken welfare really ought to be a very distant second to human welfare.
I'd put a curtain between the process and the coup and some loud music on the chicken coup side. Some even use radio wave frequency to make the chickens calm. Without this every chick in the coup will know that they are next.....
Alexander Scott funny we didn’t have factory farming before 1960 or so and people grew their own food at home. Also we didn’t have 100 million non-White people with less than a high school degree in this country
Do we want to return to a time when each of us grew our own food for mere subsistence? That was the state of humanity until the Industrial Revolution. We should be grateful for "Big Agriculture" because it's what allows us to have cheap, plentiful food without worrying about starving like our ancestors did.
@@alexanderscott2456 false, have everyone have their own damn coop and process their own chickens, larger farms that can process more can step in to fill any gaps for apartment dwellers.
Infact in the 60s america promoted having your own coops and growing your own food, doing that nowadays your labeled a prepper and theyve already made that a dirty word. Funny how the thought process changed in 40 years.
In a way were slaves to corporate trade now, and we do it by choice.
reminds me of when I was a lad on the farm......we called it "Chicken Sunday".....those were the days
Awesome!
Yeshua is king
Fantastic demonstration!
Thanks brotha! Welcome to the channel!
I'm someone from the general public watching. Watched the whole video. Enlightened me how farmers process chickens. That bird went into the plucker and the little kid in me started crying lol. But thank u for what u do. Wish I was closer to u I'd like to get my hands on a fresh bird for eating. I bet they taste good.
The grown ass woman in me bawled me head off thinking of my babies ending up like that. :( I know it's reality and I want the fresh meat. I just don't want to see them as the birds I fed and tended to. Put them in my freezer and let me be oblivious. :)
JOSH THAT IS A GREAT CHICKEN TRACTOR, THANK YOU FOR SHARING HOW TO MAKE THAT, GOOD SHOW.
My step-mothers least favorite job during the chicken harvest was the plucking. The farm, back in the 1920's and 1930's didn't have a fancy chicken plucker like you have. It was all done by hand and she just hated having to do the plucking. I'm glad to see that things have moved on since then. Thanks for the educational video. I've learned a lot of good information. Peace be with you and the family.
Great video, I worked at a commercial chicken abattoir, obviously an entirely different process to accommodate the slaughter of 15,000 chickens a day, thanks for sharing how it’s done to feed your family on your own property, it’s an easy and efficient process. Cheers 👍
Thanks Whippy
15,000 a day...I can't imagine what it takes to process that amount of chickens...but my stomach thanks you
kennycybertron1 your stomach is welcome 😀 It was a small chicken process facility compared to the big chicken chains, the forklifts would unload the trucks and tip them onto a conveyer belt, and a group of people would hang them up by the feet, they would travel across to the kill section where their heads would get dipped into a tub of water that has an electric current running trough it, it would stun them, then it was my job to line their heads up for the spinning blades that would cut both sides of the neck, sometimes they would pull their heads between their wings and miss the water and blades completely, so I’d have to kill by hand with a knife. It was a good job if you don’t mind standing in one spot doing the same thing all day, but we got paid well, the kill section got the highest pay rate, I worked my way up to the top job, I started packing wings and legs, it was my goal to be the slaughter man. 😉
Someone has to do the dirty work so we can all enjoy tasty chicken dinners 😀
I found your channel today because I would like to raise chickens for eggs and came accross this video. When I was young about 7 maybe I visit my family in puerto rico and I remember my grandma showing me this process. The old school way. I am glad this video exist because now I am really craving the self sufficient life style. This video was extremely educational! Because now its a new process. More modern compared to what I once saw. Thank you very much.
Got my plucker 2 weeks ago, chickens from Meyer hatchery (I highly recommend them as well) and will be doing around 40 chickens in 2 days. Glad I ran across your setup because now I get to aggravate the wife about a few more things we need! Great watch buddy have a good one!!
Lol nice
I call it the mother plucker.😂
Very educational. I remember my grandfather killing some chickens for our Sunday family meal. Then my aunts would do their part ( plucking the feathers, cleaning and cooking). Like your video, a true family operation.
Thank you for walking us through this process.
I followed this chicken tractor… somewhat…. And have v no regrets… except I added two 6” wheels so me and my granddaughter ( first rate helper). Can move the coop so, so, so… much easier!!!! This is an amazing plan. Well done!!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!
Its 2am I work tomorrow morning and I'm watching the part of RUclips that's showing me how to kill chickens...wtf
Miracles of the internet brotha!
Then don't ask how to kill chickens. duh.
I’m watching this at 2am but no work. Coronaaaa virus
Kylita Carbone same
Mr. Sturgill it’s 3am now and I’m still awake. This quarantine stuff has my insomnia at an all time high. #blessed
Excellent video! Thanks for sharing! We have 300 chickens to take care of today!
This is where the meat is from! Not from the fridge of the Supermarket! Nice video greetings from Germany
Douglas Heffernann no shit Sherlock
Ayeee dougie.
I know people who haven't a clue, and not just young people, either. The 40s lady across the street asked me what kind of bush or vine wheat berries grew on. My next door neighbor had some wheat growing and I went and got a stalk. The lady was surprised, she didn't know wheat was a grain. When did they start calling the grains "wheat berries" anyway?
A lot of people don't know ham and bacon are pork, or that pork is hog or pig.
Lol there's an episode on King of Queens where Doug saves a chicken and becomes a vegan .
Thanks for sharing.
Wen I was six my dad and i butchered one of our chickens I found the experience very interesting. I am totally blind and this video was so professional done that i could enjoy it. Nice job!
I really like how you don't beat around the bush you raise the animal you're killing it. People saying oh I harvested this I harvested that last time I checked animals aren't vegetables. Very good video what is the length of that equipment that would make the job easy.
I grew up butchering the old fashioned way. You don't have to scald the gizzard to remove the lining.
Just cut down the middle and rinse away the contents and peel away the layer. It comes away easily.
That's the way my momma does it, works like a charm.
I just peel it away without having to open it and wash anything until I'm done with the gizzard.
Not gonna lie, I was raised by a country family but lived a city girl life and now that I am older have gone the country way. We have an enormous garden and hens that just started laying and one of the things I wanted to be sure I was able to understand and do should we also get birds for meat or even use our hens for meat once they stop laying (still learning- not sure if that is a thing) This was very very helpful. I feel confident not only that I can do it but that I can understand the process easy. Thanks for that. I bookmarked the page for future ref.
You have a really nice setup and a really good educational video. Thank u stoneyridge farm.
thanks for the great comment Jessie
Great Video. Presentation was appropriate for your message and RUclips. I worked on a farm as a kid and we did 10 chickens on Saturday for Sunday's Dinner, we had guests. We scald dipped the birds and then hand plucked. Hair was singed off. Easy work compared to the field. Nice job with the heat wrapping. Best of luck.
I almost didn't watch the clip cause i didn't want to see the decapitation with my morning coffee but wanted to see the rest of the info. Thanks for letting me enjoy my coffee :)
You are very welcome.....lots of comments saying the very opposite....looking for the kill....If ya can't figure out how to kill a chicken....well ya probably should buy them at the grocery store right? lol
Thank you! We are almost ready to harvest our first batch of meat chickens. I didn't know what I was doing so I bought the wrong kind of chicken but life is a learning lesson everyday. I appreciate the detail with which you explained everything. We are new to homesteading but hope to be able to teach others as you have taught us. Thank you, again!
That's how we learn and it's really a good idea to produce your own food I'm in The process of building my coob almost finished
Try saving the heart, they are great when southern fried. Nice setup.
Im a Californian my chickin comes from the supermarket lol
But you not only showed class
But respect to the field and i didnt feel wrong about watching this like i thought i would. Thank you for taking the blow out of it
Thanks for the vid just finished my first batch of meat birds, they averaged 8.6 lbs. lots of work but well worth it.
Nice work!
Your wife made the video even better. Love the hat and very informative.
Well done. As a city boy I was always questioning how it was done. Great educational video.
Glad ya enjoyed this Mike!
Very interesting. I remember when i was a kid my papaw used to hang the live chicken by its feet on a tree and then cut off the head and then my mom would put them in a bucket of hot water to scald them and then she plucked them. We only did enough for dinner that day though. You do a fantastic job on these videos. Thanks for sharing.
Back in the early 1950's we had chicken every time a car hit one on the gravel road . I jokingly tell people that my brother and I used to put a little corn in the road.
I have threatened to put cat food on the black top to thin out the raccoons in our area! You always find them in the road dead. Just a raccoon hazard.
That plucker is the bomb ... way faster and easier than how we plucked on grandma’s old farm. Thanks for sharing!
Josh, need to get a poly bag tape dispenser for sealing your bags. I use one for processing my ground meat. Time saver. Trims and seals bag ends.. love the vlog keep up the good work..
Thank you. Informative with minimal BS. Didn’t realize water temp was an issue. Looking at a plucker on Amazon. Reasonable price. I have the large propane burner and a heavy stainless stock pot.
Could you do a video on composting chicken poop/coop sweepings/etc. I think you're the one to listen to when I go to try this. These videos should be shown at Agricultual High Schools and such learning institutions.
Really good video. Have cleaned a few ducks from hunting before, and remember the plucking being the worst job, so had concerns about raising chickens for meat, but that plucker makes it look so easy. made me reconsider, I think I will go for it.
thanks
I remember my aunt chopping the head off a chicken and watching it run around until it run out of steam. This was the early 60s.
More humane of a death than most get sadly.
So much easier than the way my dad and i did it when i was little. We used an old hot water heater to scold and ruber gloves to hand pick hahahaha. needless to say it sucked. Great videos. Thank you for always breaking down what you are doing and how you do it. I learn every time I watch.
Glad to see your channel is getting more attention, cheers
I remember doing this as a kid on my aunt and uncles farm. Pretty much the same process w/o the nice new equipment. We singed off any left over hair/fuzz/feathers with a torch before throwing them in the ice water. Those were great days, awesome video.
Thanks for all the videos. I’m gonna be getting started on having chickens on my land and love your ideas, and knowledge. So I have a couple of questions: how do you know when it’s time for the chickens to become part of your freezer? And chickens that lay eggs only, what do you with them when their life cycle is about to be done?
You can use laying birds for broth. Dogs like the feet. Unfortunately older layers don't have much meat left on them at the end. I've seen a lot of people use these for broths though. (I only have young birds and haven't yet dealt with an older hen) I plan to use them in that way.
Your ability to blindly yet accurately point at things behind you is on par with, if not better than, most meteorologists. Subscribed.
These are things all people should know how to do.
Not really that's the point of modern civilization. You get really good at one thing and ill get really good at another.
That's fine in theory but what happens when society falls apart? It happens all too frequently. Both of my sons are social intellectuals. One is a software specialist and the other is a geologist with a focus on hydrology. Both of them know how to grow food, raise animals, hunt, fish, clean and cook. They camp, work on their own houses and cars. At the same time they are both kind and gentle men. They can shoot anything from black powder to machine guns and neither has served a day in the military. Society is the big paper machett lie. It works as long as you don't test it. Then it's everybody for themselves. We are social people. We all live in suburban neighborhoods. But we're just as comfortable in the woods. It's not enough to teach your children to read and write anymore. You have to teach then alot of things our parents didn't teach us. New things like computers and technology. Old things like how to shoot a duck then prepare it for dinner. If or when the crap hits the fan, the first people to suffer will be the ones unable or unwilling to take care of themselves. Why wait for a handout?
Not everyone needs this skill we can survive without it. So saying "all" people need it is a stretch. In a survival situation as an ovo-lacto vegetarian for the last twenty years I'd rather keep chickens for their eggs than meat as it's more sustainable and useful. As I know a lot about plants and their different growing needs and nutritional qualities it would be unnecessary to butcher. Each to their own obviously but just pointing out it's not true to say these practices are essential knowledge.
@@NickSBailey I'm not saying the skill is just for chickens. It's the same basic set of skills a person would need for any kind of animal. I probably wouldn't be trading protein rich meats for broccoli or turnips anyway as I have the skill set to grow them as well. I won't have to trade any of those products for a place to live as I also have the skill set to build a variety of good solid dwellings with whatever materials I can find. Im not a prepper by any means. I live in an upper middle class neighborhood. I made my living working as a mechanic, carpenter, meat packer, soldier and a variety of other positions that make me better prepared then alot of preppers. It's one of those "better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it" things. I'd rather know how to prepare a chicken from barn yard to plate then to be standing there waiting for sombody to be kind enough to share theirs with me and my family.
@@fordfan3179 if civilization falls apart i don't want to be alive. Can you imagine how awful it would be a year down the road? people would start getting desperate, every couple miles of road there will be someone camping out just waiting to lit up the next sorry asshole that drives by. You couldn't move anywhere, if you have a chicken coup like this you are 100% painting a massive target on your back. Wed be going back to the stone age, a simple scratch could be a death penalty. Society isn't a lie, that's what nuclear weapons are for. There's a reason no on will ever try to invade a nuclear power(this goes between nuclear powers to). If a single nuke is dropped kiss the entire world goodbye, they will launch every single nuke they possibly can. This simple principle has held our society together since ww2."Peace the old fashioned way". Not saying its bad to learn this information but if you want to spend your time ensuring the longest life possible the safest bet is taking care of your body and exercising.
Hello Josh! Is nice to have your father and your wife working with you! I do still work with my dad, and we have great times together! Thank you for this video, is greatly educational! Also is nice to see your old truck back there like a working hero! Interesting that you or your dad like Dodges! Me too. I think is the best truck especially the second generation of which I have one. Ok my friend, take care and please, keep on producing videos!
Oh my how things have changed! When I was little back in the early 70's we would process 100 chickens in the fall. Since I was the youngest my job was to cross the chickens wings and feet while my Uncle Jeff would put its head between two 16 penny heads on an old Oak block and chop of the chickens head off. Then I had to hold on like hell until the flopping quit! Next we had an outdoor fired cauldron that we would put the chickens in. My Aunt Melinda was a professional chicken plucker. My Cousin then would take the birds into the house where grandma, Mother and my other two Aunts would burn off left over feathers then gut and process. The inards were never thrown away. Gizzards were separated for a deep fried night. The rest were saved for soup or stew.
Good stuff...man I grew up in the 80s...dad would tell me to go get a chicken from the barn and we'd eat it that night! Good life for sure!
Thanks for sharing this process. 😊👍
Glad your wife got to join you because she looks beautiful! 🙋
You're lucky to have each other. 😊❤️
So nice of you, hate to tell ya this...we divorced late last year. She somehow changed over the last 2-3 years...it was a horrible ordeal....so I'm here on the farm alone...I think she lost sight of what was important...family, working together and love
SO MUCH RESPECT THAT YOU DIDN’T SHOW THE KILL. #Subscribed
Welcome Kimbra
Im out there is no killing thank you i only click it cause i want to see the chickens heads out
Same. 💙
Thank you the video, can't wait to be able to live off the land and know that what I'm eating has had a good life. This was very helpful and informative
Never a disappointment, keep it up Josh!
Awesome well done video. I'm just beginning the process of raising and slaughtering chickens for my family's use. I appreciate the time you took to make this to help the less experienced.
As a teen on my grandparents farm I had the job of dispatching the chickens. Unlike you we only did about 4 at a whack. To dispatch the chicken it was held by its feet and its head placed on the ground. An ax handle was placed behind the head and one foot on each side of the handle. Then just stand up pulling the head off. Chickens were placed on their backs and their feet pressed into their breast for a few seconds. This stopped the chickens from running around like...well...chickens with their heads cut off. I learned the feet to breast trick but only after my first kill jumped its way into hanging sheets. We soaked ckickens in a bucket of hot water and I found out I didnt care for plucking them bare handed. Then there were the pin feathers but killing and plucking ended my part. Gutting and dressing was passed on to my dad.
Thanks for the story Stephen...always good to hear some family history
I keep ducks on a very small scale and use the same method.
That sounds horrific. This sounds/looks like a much more humane way to dispatch.
this was actually the best video i've seen on chicken processing so far. you used the least amount of cuts it seemed like and wasted the least. i always have trouble getting the esophagus out of the neck but this cleared that up
I once knew a lady that gave me the eggs of her chickens , cos she wouldn't eat them cos she refused to eat eggs that came out a chickens arse and she rather got them in the store ye know them eggs in a brick , dunno if ye know whzt mean cos i my englisch is limited but anyway i thanked her and told she was right to buy eggs made in a factory . 🤔
You still got those fresh eggs, and I bet you ate them!
I appreciate your respect for the chickens life to feed our families.
My husband and i love your channel..
We just puchased 10 acres..it's going to take us awhile to get set up but . I want to do this with chickens asap... thank you so much for sharing this process..
Would totally be willing to come take classes...Please do that sooner than 2 yrs
You are a great teacher! Clear, concise, step by step, filled with great tips along the way. Thank you so much for sharing.
GREAT video. Informative and quite interesting. Thanks for posting it.
Thank you for this video I have my first flock in 1 week and this gave me a major confidence boost it doesn’t seem that complicated I owe you a beer👍🏻🍺
Thinking about starting this when I get my own place to become more self reliant
Getr done brotha!
I super duper appreciate your clean and dirty side and that you are showing a good set up.... appreciate that you admit there was an improvement to make....sweet! Thank you much!
This is so cool, dude i love how you explain the process
I like how educational and informative your videos are I've been researching and learning all I can to become a farmer myself I don't want to be a full-fledged farmer like you guys I want to be the kind that lives off the land and only does it for a self-sustaining. but you guys have taught me a lot and I appreciate how instructional in educational your videos are
Thanks Eric...I left a reply on your other comment brotha...about the mold that grows on country hams
"Chicken hugging cones" I like it. Can you show a video on equipments (raising to butchering) needed to operate poultry farm as well as their prices? Thanks
I applaud your decision - and reasons - for not showing the actual dispatch. Thanks! Another great video.
Oh, and GREAT tip on the self-defrosting freezer (i.e. NOT using one.)
must taste amazing 100% organic and not like in store ones that are pumped with steroids
Steroids is illegal in poultry but yes organic means non nasty way of growing the chicken. If the FDA was honest they'd force non organic products to be labelled because they're the one un-natural while organic simply means normal.
Question about chicken processing, do you need to let a chicken go thru the rigor mortis process before cooking? I have had some chickens we butchered and cooked right away, and some we butchered and cooked a couple of days later. The ones we cooked right away were tougher than the ones that sat in the fridge for a couple of days before cooking. Had a friend tell me that the ones that sat in the fridge had time to go thru rigor mortis and come back to being softer tissue. Was wondering if she was right? And if she was right would you need to do that before freezing or canning? Just wasn’t happy with the tough chicken. So would like to know before I start raising them and processing them to eat again. Only did a few the first time we tried it.
I love Stoney ridge farmer chicken butchering videos!! So much good info!!
Woooooo!!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer pretty sweet woooooo thats how chickens are made for kfc and ends up finger lickin good lol
There is a set for 50 dollars (Electric drill) "Chicken Plucker + Medium Killing Cone +Swedish Knife"
It looks like the drill version could pluck a turkey. It's a huge mess.
Build your own at "chickenpluckerparts" They're called a whizbang.
Thank you so much sir for this video!! I’m about to start raising chickens and I need to the ends and outs of everything. This video was so great!!! It helped me a lot lot…I will be referring back to this video quiet often!!!!
Chickens had their bad day! Great vid!.
I just culled 6 roosters of 9. May need one more. Omg they were beautiful. I made coq au vin and will add it to the regular menu. Wow!! That was amazing!!!!! My Roos were young so I believe they will be great cooked any way. Please, please!!! Consider that this is not new. People for thousands of years have been butchering the excess roosters and hens too. As they didn’t have the fancy methods of today. These recipes took years of culinary skills. Yes they are worth trying!!!!! “ try it, you might like it “. Lol
I’m watching from Cornwall
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Kernow bys vyken!
I grew up here on a farm in Ill.
My dad would buy 100 chicks every spring and we would raise them up for butchering. The methods were basicly the same . we also raised our own beef and hogs for our family meat supply. Rendered our own lard,cleaned casings for sausage eventually started buying sausage casings.
Still process our own deer and make sausage and smoke. Wonderful memories. Minus the smell of scalded chickens.
So far my "meat " birds have ended up living long happy lives as I haven't been able to do the first step needed to proceed them lol. However i'm going to follow your tutorial and get a cone and see if I can take care of them that way (figure that way I won't see which bird it is lol). Thanks for the lesson!!!
How did it go? I just did my first one today.
@@dude8307 went great! I've got 25 coming next week so will be getting more practice in about 9-10 weeks😊
Purpose of the chicken's life. Best quote. Great demonstration and tools applied.
nice video. people should know where food comes from. Again, good job
I watched this when it was published and watched it again a few times today. Not the best day to process ducks but we had a few drakes that needed culling. This video was a big help. Thank you Stoney Ridge Farm.
Very cool to see the process of farming and where food comes from on a local ranch.
Thanks Davis...glad ya enjoyed the process brotha
Thansk so much for this video. I am starting a homestead in Quebec, Canada and I want to start with chicken this next summer :)
Very interesting and informative! Thanks for sharing.
Very well done. I'm thinking about raising my own meat birds and every step here was exactly what I needed to know without the first hour being all about your dog, work, and every other word being uh uh uh um. Thanks so much!