Posts by booker81

To pick up, I grab the legs, and pick them up, and if I have a free hand, I grab the neck and hold it down. It's hard to explain :) If I get their head down as I'm bringing their feet up, they don't move at all. It's when they get...

Good job to everyone who's taken the leap of making a chicken into a chicken dinner :) It's a hard thing to learn, but it's a good skill to gain.   I like to still hang mine, but I hold them after cutting the veins, to keep...

For some reason, the thought of a bunch of chickens in a Focus makes me smile. Kinda like the guy that passed me on the highway with a goat in the back of his Jeep Cherokee (loose in the back).   I slaughter at home, but...

I don't butcher in front of the whole flock due to the logistics of where I butcher (in the garage and then finish in the house). However, I usually do batches of 4-12 birds at a time, so I take the ones I plan to butcher from the coop...

Yup, you do need to be careful with them because they turn to dead weight. If I'm moving mine, when I set them down, I lay them gently so they don't bonk their head or get the neck twisted, sort of just lay them down on their...

I've often carried by the feet, hanging upside down generally gets and keeps them calm and not struggling. I can carry four at a time this way, two in each hand. It's a pretty common way to carry chickens for a short...

I don't because in my reading about rigor and slaughter of various meat animals, I'm trying to avoid "cold shortening".   From Britannica (not wikipedia, but it says the same): “Cold shortening is the result of the rapid...

Hubby worked 12 hours today for one of the main power companies in MI. They usually run 16s, but with the heat index over 110, they sent guys home. I imagine the same is occurring for other states. Power is a necessity, but it's not...

I don't think CX are more freaky or unnatural than any other specifically selected breed or hybrid. Lots of hybrids are useful and "natural". Think of where society would be if we didn't have mules. Hybrids aren't evil or unnatural,...

Those Citroens are nifty looking, but I can't find one stateside :(