Recent content by Clay34

Production facilities use a killing cone for a reason. While I only process about 50 birds a year, I still use a cone. I just use a highway blaze orange cone and cut the tip off so that the head comes out of the cone the appropriate amount. Check out the video and watch all of the PolyFace...

You very well might be right in that I should just buy a plucker. I did find a nice sale on cconly.com - $100 off right now. I really don't process that many birds per year, but I hate plucking birds manually. We process about 50/ year. If I had a plucker, we might considering raising some...

Just about ready to order the first batch of meat birds for the year. This always makes me think of processing day. Last year I rented a plucker very reasonably, but getting it when I want it can't always be a sure thing. I Waffled between building and buying last year. I noticed that many...

Thanks for the thoughts Sylvester, that's exactly what I was thinking too. Now have to talk to the wife to figure out the next step? Personally with agressvie hens, I think that I should rehome all 4 of the silkies. My layers beat the crap out of my Newhampshire rooster until he was older and...

I know very little about silkies but we now own 4 of the black beauties. We raise meat birds and have 6 other laying hens: 3 Barred Rocks and 3 RIRs. The layers were chicks last April. My silkies are separated from the older girls and are today 10 weeks old. When I bought them they told me...

I do think that is the beauty of the WhizBang design: if you can scavange some parts and use some materials you already have, you can build a workable nice piece for a reasonable amount. What this thread is about, is buying everything NEW for a WhizBang including a nice feather plate, Motor...

I really like the dual belt drive in the EZ131.

I'm looking into buying a plucker. Bluntly if you buy a new motor and the parts a store bought unit isn't that much more than just buying all of the parts for a WhizBang style plucker in my opinion. If you want to share some sources for materials that are reasonable that is fine too. I see...

Thanks for the nice video. I only tried twice but I couldn't get their website to load using FireFox. Once I switched over to IE it worked fine. Maybe it was something on my end this morning but I thought that I would mention it for others that might try their web site and think that it was...

Has anyone found anything better than this video on how to process a meat bird?: I really like this video, just wish the camera angles were a little better. Wish I could see what the audience see's on the screen with his voice over the top. I'm about to do our fourth batch of meat birds...

Thanks for your thoughts.

While I have no expert comment or advice, they are beautiful. Thanks for the nice pictures

I think if those were my birds I would put down the camera and go outside.

We all get attached to our birds that's a fact. I hope that you find them. Keep us posted.

When I did a search under gas strut, what came up was gas pricing and the word strut on a chicken forum produced too many hits so I read a few pages in the coop & run forum. I still couldn't find what I was looking for so here goes a construction question. I want to install a gas strut, like...