Butchered our first today.

[miss_jayne]

there is just nothing better. my kids refuse to eat store bought or restaurant prepared chicken.

good butchering job!

 

[Brunty_Farms]

there is just nothing better. my kids refuse to eat store bought or restaurant prepared chicken.

good butchering job!

Nice avatar....

 

[MichiganWoods]

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Thanks!

I don't blame your kids. I'm even going to have a hard time going back to store bought... don't think we can manage to raise 50+ meat birds on our property!

 

[miss_jayne]

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Thanks!

I don't blame your kids. I'm even going to have a hard time going back to store bought... don't think we can manage to raise 50+ meat birds on our property!

we did 125 last year. we plan to do 300 this year. yummy!

 

[HSmamma]

Wow-I've never butchered yet. We have all hens and one roo.

You mean real chicken meat isn't glow in the dark yellow like Perdue chicken? Blech.

I know it's not, I'm in awe of how fresh it looks.

Bev

 

[Daycare Mom]

Good job! Looks delish! Once we started eating our own chickens, we will never go back to eating store bought chicken. It is not bad to pluck them once you do it and the skin (even if you don't eat it) adds a ton of flavor.

 

[mahen8622]

we tried the whole breaking the neck bleeding them out thing and that was VERRRRY tramatic for me so i think were gonna do it with the ax i can clean chickens all day long but i cant kill them it hurts me to bad i have 4 roos in a pin right now that need to have a hit out on them but i am nervous lol i guess d day will be tuesday unless someone wants them im in KY lol

 

[jkpnelly]

That looks like a good supper.

 

[jaku]

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You don't need to worry too much about skinning the feet. I asked Frugal about that somewhere, and I think he said he does it because his customers like it better. I don't skin the feet on mine, and they go right into the stock pot after being cleaned.

 

[MichiganWoods]

miss_jayne, wow! That's a lot of chickens! We definitely don't have the room for that. We're only on 2.5 acres of land, and most of it is wooded. - I'm salivating thinking about all of the yummy dinners you will be eating this year!

HSmamma, nope, no yellow here! All pink. I think that surprised me a little too. I'm used to seeing the yellowed skin and meat.


Daycare Mom, thanks! I'd been reading about the skin and had contemplated keeping it, but we're trying to keep a lot of extra fat out of our diets. I might try roasting the next one with skin on though.


mahen8622, good luck with those four. I think I think this first one didn't disturb me that badly because of his attitude problem. If he would have been a sweet animal, I would have had a much harder time with all of it.

jkpnelly, thank you.

jaku, that's good to know. How do you clean/disinfect the feet? The skin seems strong enough that I imagine you could take a stiff scrub brush to them with soap and water.