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My oldest could NOT handle seeing any of the innards!!! Poor thing, lol. Anything that resembles a worm or is wormish will send her into a cold sweat........................cause? An earthworm peed on her hand when she was 4 or 5 years old. Bless her heart, lol. So we would do a...

I agree that plucking isn't that bad. You should at least give it a try. I kept my water about 150 also. On the heritage breeds the feathers literally came out by the handful. We did 6 really old hens that were heritage. Than we did our 20 CX all with hand plucking. After a little practice...

Well, maybe if you just check her at intervals to make sure she is gaining until she is the size you want to butcher at.......unless she stops gaining of course. I understand about the genetics thing. At least the culls won't go to waste.

Kass, I had a bird like that with a badly crossed beak. She lasted a long time as long as we had their food in a dish that was deep enough that she could get a "big bite" if you will. She couldn't get small bites of things like thin grass, but things she could really sink her beak into worked...

Maybe I am just cheap.......but I think that is plenty!!!

I bet those meaties could get through there for quite awhile. We had our brooder designed with an area they would have to squat down a bit to get through one little doorway and we put different things on each side.....to encourage them to go back and forth. I actually think that it helped...

Oh that looks GREAT! I like cooking mine breast down too! It seems like the rest of the bird bastes the breast as the juice comes down.

Oh thanks!!! That's my young Mottled Houdan hen.

Wow, off grid! Great job! I doubt you will be disappointed in your chicken dinners. Your birds will taste so much fresher, cleaner than the chickens from the store. Good job!

Well I do use that burner on the side of the grill for the full water canner when I don't want to use the big burner. ( If the propane is on the grill and I don't have the energy to move it) I do 99% of the actual canning outside, and prep inside, it is so much better than having that heat in...

Poor Wax!! I bet I could not have done it if I had not had my trusty Superman leading the way. Thank goodness he experienced a lot of these processes when he was young. Hope you have better luck next time. Ok, so pressure cooker question! I have one and have been wanting to use it and...

Our dinner picture is serving its purpose than. This chicken was soaked a bit longer in the sea salt water than some of the others. And I let it rest two full days after thawing in the fridge. Man was it loosey goosey, juicy and tender! If you are able to keep enough ice in the salt water...

BBQ Grilled Chicken.........for inspiring all you who hesitate before the cone of silence :)

Yes, we got it last spring. I LOVE it!!!

I finally got a picture of some of the CX we processed. The one in the center of the bottom row is over 6lb. All the ones that I did weigh while we were putting them up were between 5 and 6+lbs.

There are many different tasks that need tending. I bet you will find one that works for you. There was just me and hubby doing ours but we ended up each doing the tasks that we just seemed to be the best at and worked out a little routine for each bird.

For REAL!!! Bleck!

We finished up our meat birds.......guess it was yesterday, since I'm getting to bed so. There were 13 of them. A full 8 weeks old and I have mostly in the 5lb something range. With a few (4 or 5) up in the 6lb range. They all look really good without feathers!!!!! Nice big breast on these...

Like a pimple! Lol! Ok, well at least I know its a normal thing with those little feathers. Now I don't feel like I am so bad at doing this ;)

Yes, I am sure I am just having a learning curve and need practice for the speed. They did get a cool down in a couple of buckets I set up with a bit of sea salt, ice and water. They were popped in there after the intestines were removed. Then I did the remaining 'cleanup' inside at the...