Good job! I like to do an assembly line type process, it speeds it up a bit. It's never a pleasant chore, but a necessary one when you end up with 20+ cockerels like I did this year. I'm hoping to get 4 more done this weekend, as I still have way too many.Thanks to all who gave me processing solo advice...I am exhausted. I did 4 cockerels. Had the dispatching done pretty quickly and was surprised at how fast the plucking went but then things stalled. Took 4 hours total but I did get quicker as it went on.
Also sold a hen and a pullet...Speckled Sussex who is a sweetie but not much of a producer and a Blue AM who irritated me because she was so skittish. Ironically I am pretty sure the SS started laying again this week AFTER I made arrangements for her sale but I spent 75.00 at the feed store ( for 3 weeks worth) last week and need to cut down my flock and feed bill.
Anyway,,,it was an emotional chicken day. I know I did right by those boys and that they lived good lives up to this morning but it is hard on the psyche. Still I am proud that I was able and as my daughter said. I now have a marketable skill in the event of the zombie apocalypse.