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I wonder if you could make a device that would do it... Say a board with a notch cut into it for the neck to rest in, then the bar on a hinge, so you lay the bird down and put the bar in place, then pull once standing on the bar. You could even do it with one foot on the bar since the bar is...

Very normal in commercially processed birds, I would say there was some yellow skin and a few scales on over half of the leg quarters I cut up.

Have you thought about using garden shears? I haven't processed any birds, but when feeding the cats raw, I cut up A LOT of leg quarters and I ended up going to a small pair of garden shears to pop through the joints and bones. Seemed safer than using a knife while my hands and the chicken were...

I don't know about processing, but every so often, I will get a pack of gizards from the store and some usually have a green leathery lining on them which tastes gross if you cook them without noticing it...

I can't help with the question on when to process, however, most areas that allow chickens consider a chicken to be a chicken over a certain age, so you can be allowed 10 chickens, but get away with having 100 meat birds because they are not "chickens" until they hit a certain age and by then...

It would be easy enough to do that. They make thermostats you can plug things into. Just put the probe in the water, set the temp, plug the heater in, and it will essentially plug and unplug the heater as needed. Would be best to have something stiring the water to provide even heating and an...

No, they come on when you plug them in and turn off when you unplug them. They MIGHT have something to turn them off if they get out of the water and get hot enough to start a fire, but I wouldn't count on it.

lol, hi! I don't have birds, so I haven't been talking on this thread much

I read somewhere in this thread (I think) that someone put a bungee cord on the cone to keep them from being able to flip out. Might be an idea to try since you had that problem. Congrats on the processing days though, I don't know if I could bring myself to do it...

then they will be short CX

Buy some Rocks, breed the batches together and make your own CX

A piece of info I picked up somewhere (can't remember where) is that dark meat is formed from using muscles and white meat is formed from being sedentary, one reason why a wild turkey has very little white meat but a farmed wild type has a lot more. Perhaps putting your "to be eaten" birds in...

Perhaps to make this "perfect" one could rig a guillotine for the decapitation, have the cone so the blade will slice right at the end of the cone so no chance of the chicken moving it's head at the last second... Heck, with that setup, the more squeamish could possibly even put it on a remote...

I'm ashamed to admit it, but my dad shot a deer last year, we cut it up in big chunks, put it in a bucket, I brought it home and put it in the garage (it was below freezing) and left it, cooked the tenderloin the next night, but I didn't get to cleaning it all up and putting it away before it...

I didn't say they couldn't HAVE it, just said they don't digest it well if at all. I know when a cat eats grass that it comes back out in much the same shape that it went in. Also, I rarely see cats eat the digestive tract of animals they kill. I have had cats all of my life and had to clean up...

Any wild cat, including Bengals and savanna Cats which are only part wild, should be fed an all meat, raw meat diet. I have a barn cat that I try to keep on a raw meat diet, but it's a pain to have to process the meat all the time for him and keep it from freezing at the barn. When he's on all...

I think it was this thread that I was on where I saw the solution to this. Someone on here has the same problem as you and they wore a dust mask with a few drops of essential oils on it which cut the scent, so maybe some lemongrass or something like that that you ENJOY smelling would be better...

My dad says he knows someone with a 10 foot fence that regularly has deer belly hair on top from them hopping the fence.... it might slow them down, but it won't stop them.

chicken and dumplings can be easy, very easy, or ridiculously easy. Cook the chicken, just toss it in a pot and boil it until cooked, then drop in biscuit dough, for easy, you can make the biscuits from scratch, for very easy, get bisquick, add some milk, mix and done (instructions are even on...