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    Cows and Chickens in the same pasture?

    Hi Everyone: My neighbor is willing to let me put my meat birds in tractors in his pasture. He has 6 cows on the same pasture. I think I can rig an electric fence around the pens each day so that the cows don't get mixed up in the tractors but I'm not sure about mixing the two other than that...
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    Butchering ducks - Pin Feather question

    It seems to me that with Pekins you just need to be flexible. I process them at 10 weeks and after the picker is done with them I do one of 3 things: 1) If they are clean of feathers I clean and freeze them. 2) If they have a reasonable number of pin feathers I use a needle-nose to clean them...
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    Nasty Scald Water

    Whoa... that scald water is truly disgusting. Is there a rule of thumb on how often to replace the water in the scalder? It gets so gross so quickly that it seems like anything other than a complete flush every few birds would be just wishful thinking but that's not practical. I added fresh...
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    Proper Order of Things When Shrink-Bagging Meaties

    Thanks for such good advice. I really appreciate it. I think I'll follow bwmichaud's steps, it sounds like a good plan. kill pluck clean chill drip dry bag shrink refrigerate overnight freeze E
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    Proper Order of Things When Shrink-Bagging Meaties

    Somehow this question was posted twice so I'm clearing this one in hopes that all answers are posted to the first.
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    Proper Order of Things When Shrink-Bagging Meaties

    Hi Everyone... My first post! I'm curious what the "accepted" order of things is when using shrink bags: specifically when do you age the birds? I assume that the accepted practice is to dress the birds, bag them and then age them in the fridge overnight as an already bagged product but I...
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