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    How to Butcher a Chicken

    The liquid is not grassy-green - it is watery green - almost looked like human urine, albeit green urine... Almost mountain-dewish.
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    Butchered chickens for the first time today

    I too was told that skinning is a lot easier than plucking. Skinning sounded great too, because typically we take the skin off our chickens. However, I won't skin again after trying both methods this past weekend - my first time to do either. Skinning seemed to be a "dirty" job to me - all...
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    How to Butcher a Chicken

    This past weekend I butchered 9 chickens for the first time. One of the birds I butchered had a lot of watery green fluid in its body cavity. The gall bladder was still intact. Seems like I remember reading somewhere that greenish fluid is not a good thing. It certainly doesn't seem like...
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    Is my math right??? Raising meat chicks for about $6 apiece???

    I thought I would add my numbers to the mix. I butchered nine meat birds on Saturday. Total weight was 66 pounds of dressed birds. The cost of baby birds + feed + bedding was $81, or $1.23 per pound. Checked Wal-Markets and their roasters were selling for $1.24/lb! Of course I am neglecting...
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