Am I the only weirdo...

[PioneerChicks]

My mom mentioned a plucked for Christmas since it takes us like an hour a bird still by hand (yes, we're really slow)

Try skinning them. You don't get the skin but it is fast and pretty easy. I harvested for the first time earlier this fall and my grandparents taught me.

 

[PioneerChicks]

Not weird at all! I often get chicken shirts (for me) or old bowls (for the chickens and random chores). One year I got a egg candler!

 

[Mosey2003]

I skin if I'm only doing the odd bird or two, but I'm not a huge fan of the skinning process, it's a lot of slippery heavy muscled pulling, lol.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Try skinning them. You don't get the skin but it is fast and pretty easy. I harvested for the first time earlier this fall and my grandparents taught me.

We're a skin on family. The only ones we don't pluck are the bantams since we just breast them out

 

[3KillerBs]

Nope. I got a Gorilla cart for my birthday last year.

I'm hoping for an incubator for Christmas.

 

[Ridgerunner]

The way we do it is that if my wife sees something she wants she gets it and says "This is for my birthday". Or maybe for our anniversary or Christmas. She may get a couple of anniversaries or Christmases a year. That way she doesn't have to wait and I don't have to buy her something that she'll probably return anyway. Sometimes this is an appliance, the type of thing you should never buy your wife, sometimes it is something more for her or her hobby. But it is always what she wants.

I do the same type of thing. When she asks what do you want for your birthday I'll tell her I got it a few month back. One of those was a knife with razor sharp replaceable blades to butcher chickens.

Do I think you are weird Not in the least.

 

[RoosterML]

My mom mentioned a plucked for Christmas since it takes us like an hour a bird still by hand (yes, we're really slow)

They are worth every penny. I purchased one for quail this year. I already had a chicken one. Excellent and makes it fun and not such a choir

 

[RoosterML]

We have this bad boy:

https://thebirdnerd.biz/shop/27-inch-all-purpose-poultry-plucker/

And yes. It's great. I can't imagine going back to hand plucking at this point.

Wow I like processing my own birds but not spending $3k on a plucker. My $350 yardbird works just fine for me.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

My mom mentioned a plucked for Christmas since it takes us like an hour a bird still by hand (yes, we're really slow)

It takes me 45 minutes, and I do two birds a week. I basically set aside half a day for culling. An hour a bird, honestly, doesn't sound that bad to me.

 

[Isadora]

Wow I like processing my own birds but not spending $3k on a plucker. My $350 yardbird works just fine for me.

We plan on rasing hundreds of meat birds every year for the foreseeable future. My husband was concerned about a cheaper one not holding up to that kind of use.