I have meat mutts chickens, part CX, and heritage turkeys.
I eat either a 5lb chicken or half a turkey a week. Almost all are homegrown.
Before I got covid I was harvesting 6 chickens and 2 turkeys at a time.
Nowadays I do 2 chickens or a turkey at a time.
The old injured birds I have...
I kept and butchered about 300 ft away from my flock . Washing the area , clothes and boots several times. Of course one of my hens got out and wandered up to the butcher site after the clean up 😕
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I cut up a kitty litter jug for a cone when my first 12 week old
CX wouldn't fit in the large metal store bought cone I bought used.
I have an old folding fish cleaning table I use to butcher. It has a groove to catch the blood.
2 of my meat mutt chickens and a turkey, showing blood in groove...
They passed a law here to not blow grass on the rd when people mow. This never used to be a problem. People mowed in the first few passes and then mowed out so it blew over the already mowed.
Bikes and Motorcycle would hit the wet grass and wipe out. Cars crashed because they slid when braking.
Drones :smack
I got into trouble shooting one that was buzzing my flock. We were both in the wrong so nothing became of it. They were supposed to be in line of sight and not chasing my birds, which was shown on the video right before I blew it away. Wasn't worth the hassle but was satisfying...