BYC Café

[sourland]

Good afternoon, Cafe. Another field trial completed. Coffee there is undrinkable so I just brewed a pot - help me finish it.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Glad to George as long as you can help with the rolls of fencing

 

[Shadrach]

Last ditch effort...
...took no more than 20 minutes and they are both gone.
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Are you finding the processing more difficult now aart or just not interested in the hassle?

 

[aart]

Are you finding the processing more difficult now aart or just not interested in the hassle?

It's the cleanup that kicksmyass, or rather my feet/knees, long story...
...not worth the effort for only 2 birds this time around.
Local mill guy swore he could sell them but didn't,
even spent a couple hours at the farmers market at the prompting of the market manager.
this was last ditch before feeding them to the fox.
Almost took longer to get the sign up than waiting for a taker.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I did buy cones and drill based plucker so see how well it works as the four grow up a bit more

 

[ronott1]

It's the cleanup that kicksmyass, or rather my feet/knees, long story...
...not worth the effort for only 2 birds this time around.
Local mill guy swore he could sell them but didn't,
even spent a couple hours at the farmers market at the prompting of the market manager.
this was last ditch before feeding them to the fox.
Almost took longer to get the sign up than waiting for a taker.

I process at my kitchen sink. Cleanup is a breeze and two is the perfect number to process.

 

[aart]

I process at my kitchen sink.

Not how I roll....no way I would bleed out, pluck (or even skin), and gut a chicken in my kitchen.

 

[ronott1]

Not how I roll....no way I would bleed out and gut a chicken in my kitchen.

I bleed out in the garage and process in the kitchen.

It is cleaner to clean a chicken then to open most bagged chicken from the store in the kitchen sink.
Vacuumed packed beef and pork are stinky too.

Lots of advantages in the kitchen! no meat bees, flies, stove is there for the scald water and the lots of convenient fresh water in the sink.

It does take a mental readjustment though since the image most of us have is doing it all out side like at a camp out

Also, I might get arrested if I killed chickens in the backyard in the city....

 

[aart]

I bleed out in the garage and process in the kitchen.

I do it all in the garage, except for final rinsing and butchering into parts.
Do all cleaning of equipment in the laundry tub on lower level,
which is very close to under-house garage.
Usually do 4-6 birds at a time.
But all that is beside the point, didn't want to slaughter these 2 so got rid of them another way.

 

[ronott1]

I do it all in the garage, except for final rinsing and butchering into parts.
Do all cleaning of equipment in the laundry tub on lower level,
which is very close to under-house garage.
Usually do 4-6 birds at a time.
But all that is beside the point, didn't want to slaughter these 2 so got rid of them another way.

It sounds like you have a good method too!

Our laundry is in the hallway inside the house. There is no running water in the garage.