Another Processing Day Done! W/link to pics **graphic**

[booker81]

Great job!!! I can't wait to do my little meatballs in about 3 or 4 weeks

 

[Jschaaff]

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Thanks

I grew up hand plucking, and when we did our first this year, I hand plucked those, but I am just so slow at it! There aren't enough hours in a day for how long it takes me to pluck a bird. I did a Columbian roo (which I didn't end up eating btw...apparently I'm fine with the meat birds, but when I raise a sweet bird for 5 months, I just don't have the heart to eat them

) a month ago, by myself, start to finish, it was well over an hour. Of course it was way harder to pluck then the cornish x, but yeah...I'm darn slow.
Hopefully your plucking experience will be better...and a knife works SO well (or needle nose pliers, but i like using the knife) for getting those last stubborn feathers out.

What also helped it be quicker this time (plucker misses a lot of feathers) is that I didn't bother hand plucking any that were left around the rear, or around the neck, since I knew Id be cutting all of that skin off. Was muuuuch quicker that way!

Best of luck Halo!

 

[redriver]

LOVE your blog. Just spent a highly enjoyable couple hours reading them all. Especially liked the poison ivy hoo-ha posts. Strangely enough, I have my own home grown yeast in the fridge, too. Whatever happened with the $400 ticket?

RedRiver

 

[galanie]

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[bigredfeather]

Great job! It gets a little easier and faster each time you do it. I must say I love your blog too. I started reading it after your first processing event and try to keep up with it. I'll tell you what, you crack me up. I can only imagine how comical it would be to actually hear you say what you type.

I noticed you said you had trouble holding onto the birds w/out the legs on for a handle. I simply put a finger or 2 in the passage where the windpipe was to keep a good hold on them. If you hold them upside down w/ your finger in there, they won't slip away. If you cut the legs off first, it saves you from having to set them back down on a dirty table after they are rinsed off.

Oh, and how is it hubby has to have on full rain gear, and you can get by with just a tank-top?

 

[Jschaaff]

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Thank you very much I'm really glad you like the blog.

The ticket, well we got out of it. Hubby made me go with him, hoping I could do all the talking...he said if he had to talk he'd rather just pay it. ..I'm cheap, (my grandmother says that makes me sound bad, and that "I'm thrifty"...is much more appropriate then "I'm cheap" lol) and knew we could beat it, and that our point was valid... (it totally wasn't JUST because I wanted a reason to dress up and go somewhere...really ...*sigh, dinner wouldve been so much easier though...) Soooo we went to court, which was like sitting a a darn church pew (No disrespect to my church intended...I just say things...)

...so we sat there for an hour and a half...oh, and they made me spit out my gum?!" HELLO, have you SEEN the hooker in the back row? THAT'S OKAY SIR?...but I can't chew gum Sir? Okay..okay...I swallowed it..."(maybe).!....Anyway, after waiting close to 2 hours, my mom called, so I walked outside and took the 2 minute phone call, came back inside the court room..hubby said the Prosecutor had come over and talked to him, had a 30 second conversation, and agreed it was a bad ticket...

"WHAT? I was gone for like 2 minutes?? You didn't NEED me?...ok ok....great...we can leave then right?...I'm hungry!!.."

Noooooope

... gotta be seen by the judge still.... Still had to sit in the court room another 2 hours...in our suits...hot....no gum chewing...(maybe) ...no phones (gotta love silent-mode)...no speaking...(that is sooo hard for me...like torture!!....just waterboard me for a minute kay, but dont suspend my speaking privileges....)... lol while all the teenage girls that were there for underage drinking AND driving twirled their hair and adjusted their strapless tops and daisy dukes... We sat there while the women with their hair professionally weaved and braided and fingernails all french tipped, explained they hadn't paid their fines becuz they didn't have a job (Thank you though taxpayers, for providing their designer jeans and high-heeled boots, via welfare ...while you shop at walmart!) and "would the judge please give them yet another extension and remove their warrants etc" (he did)....

....sat there while various young men (several were wearing Hanes, just for the record..grey seemed to be the underwear color of choice for the day...did not witness a single pair of tightie whities..several plaid boxers...though there was a very nice pair of Calvin Kleins.....) stood before the judge...all the while I was praying their size 40 pants didn't fall off their size 34 hips and expose anymore of those grey undies then I was already having to look at...

....Then my husband stood up in front of the judge...face flushed...sweat noticably dripping from his nervous brow (it's freakin parking ticket...we'll be okay baby...we'll get thru this...toghether (HE WAS DRVING SIR...NOT ME!!! lol) ....I quietly chewed my illegal gum...making sure not to move my jaw while the baliff stared at me out of the corner of his knowing eye...The judge thanked hubby immensely, for being the only appropriately dressed person he'd seen today (hey...what was wrong with my outfit!!...oh that's IT, I'm chomping my gum Mr Judge, Sir. Can ya hear it? can ya?) ....complimented his Marine corps tie slide...and agreed with the prosecutor that our ticket could go buh-bye. It was a long day. . .an entertaining day, but a great reminder of why I will never knowingly break the law... Cuz court rooms suck and there's no food. Hell, at least after church they feed me cookies and stuff.


Thaaaats what happened with the 400.00 ticket

Jessa

 

[Jschaaff]

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Hehe, cuz sweet hubby is a wuss. Actually that's his new rain coat and he was dying to wear it (like most women are when they get a new pair of shoes lol). It really wasn't thaaaat bad out, 60+, and raining off and on, but I got darn hot in that tent. . . Maybe its becuz I was the only one actually processing all those chickens (yes he plucked ...yaddi yaddi yaddi) lol.

Glad you like the blog

SOO bigredfeather...I know you have a lot of experience and process a LOT of birds each year...could you tell me, is there an easy way to remove what I think is the esophagus...its that really hard to grab white tube that runs along the neck... it takes me forever to get it out...there has to be a method I'm just not grasping... Any help would be great!
Jessa

 

[galanie]

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When I was in HR at the post office I told those guys, flat out, that if they wanted a job they needed to wear pants that fit. Seriously, what the heck is wrong with people that they think this is appropriate clothing to wear when you want to make a good impression?

/rant off
LOVED your blog!!! Now I feel like Oliver... "More please!"

 

[Tracydr]

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Nice pick, looks like you made it into a fun day. I have this great little sharpener that you just run the knife through, it has a course and fine side. I use it every single time I use my knives. Every time without fail. Sometimes my big kitchen knife and paring knife might get sharpened four times in a day! So I almost never need the course side except for maybe my meat cleaver that I hack bones with. Anyway, it's a little yellow sharpener, small enough to fit in your palm and I think I got it at Target or Walmart. Very simple compared to stones or rods. Which encourages keeping knives sharp. Sharp knives are safer than dull knives.

 

[hpc4th1]

Nice pic, looking good, lol. Nice to see people







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