Convincing someone home slaughtered birds are more sanitary and safer to eat

[bigredfeather]

This gets them every time:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...ested-harbor-dangerous-bacteria-78121307.html

 

[fair weather chicken]

ok, first on monday feb. 27 th on the program THE DOCTORS, they are doing reports on what is in our food. their leader is that chicken from the store has 50 times the chlorine of a swimming pool. second get them to watch FOOD INC and FRESH THE MOVIE which is supposed to be available on AMAZON. and finally don't sell yourself short, if you need 2.99 or more charge it and charge 1.00 per bird to cut it up. we are in our 3rd year as a meat CSA, and we have several customers who have been with us since the 1st year. we sell singles at 7.50 each. plus the 1.00 per bird cut up charge, and the people are happy to get them. so enjoy bringing good food to those that will enjoy it.

 

[Beekissed]

I was amazed also when a lady in her early 50s~who lives on a farm and raises cattle~that she had never cut up a whole chicken in her whole life!!!

How do these people tie their own shoes each morning???

When I did my meaties I had gotten plenty enough to give some whole roasting birds away to friends and family. No one turned it down and they all raved over the meat quality. I doubt if they would have paid for them, though....

For the food inept people out there you might market your birds in parts with the appropriate price adjustments: Skinless, boneless breasts at a premium, skin left on a little less, thighs(skinned or not), legs, backs, etc.

I've found that most women nowadays are just too dawg-gone lazy to cut up a chicken or roast a whole bird, nor would they know how if they even wanted to do so. We have raised a generation of helpless women and it isn't something of which I am proud. For every shiftless and ignorant man, I have found that, out there somewhere, is an equally helpless and ignorant woman.

You might want to advertise your bounty to broaden your market base....someone out there doesn't have the room or methods to raise their own but would LOVE to buy yours. I guarantee it!

 

[booker81]

I think a lot of the problem is many (especially my generation - I'm 30), grew up in households where cooking skills weren't a priority. My generation didn't have home ec class in school - no training other than at home. I think a lot more families were ones that went from the one income, dad works, mom's a homemaker to two income households, where putting a full meal on the table every evening just wasn't a priority, and with that went the knowledge of HOW to put a full meal on the table - and even where that food comes from.

I constantly am told by my coworkers they don't "have the time" to cook full meals, let alone raise livestock for food, garden, can, or just "put food by". It's no longer a priority.

I make it a priority. Our daughter (4 years old now), WILL learn how to cook and put food by. She isn't an active participant in hunting or slaughter, but she watches and asks, and someday will help. She does try to help in the garden. She loves to help me cook (though I keep her tasks to measuring and stirring non-cooking food). She's the only kid I know who loves to eat her veggies - including Brussels sprouts and sauerkraut (which I also make). DH and I work, and work a lot, but I still find I can make the time to raise good food, or at least know how it got to our plate.

 

[Oregon Blues]

Life is good, you are going to discover that your family has no problems at all with eating 25 home raised chickens. That's only 2 birds per month if you wrap them well and freeze them and eat them over an entire year.

In fact, if you sell a bunch of them, you might be sorry as you use up the chickens you kept for yourself.

The way it is done at my house is we raise and butcher enough for an entire year, so we only have to do it once. 50 chickens get done on chicken day. 25 ducks get done on duck day. then 6-8 geese get done either on duck day or on their own day. There is lots of set-up and clean up. I don't want to do it every week, or even once a month. I prefer to go to the freezer and take out what I want instead of having to butcher every time I cook.

Just make sure you wrap so that no air can get into the packaging.

 

[Beekissed]

You can also reserve some of that meat to use in making chicken hot pocket style items for the freezer. Making the filling is easy and one can purchase the ready made pie crusts, so if your family is a microwave family, the chicken is portioned out for single servings and ease of use.

Chicken pot pie; chicken, cheese and broccoli; chicken, cheese and rice; spicy chicken burritos.

You can also can up any extra chicken that won't fit in your freezer for convenient home made chicken soup or any other recipe that calls for chicken.

 

[Ibicella]

If I lived around you, I'd definitely buy your birds!

The most you can do is shove some YouTube videos at them. There are some that are not made by PETA or animal rights groups and are simply for information.

 

[Clay Valley Farmer]

With our laws in Ontario I think you can be charged for just thinking about selling on farm processed livestock. But if it were possible to do so, I would rather try to find the right market rather than try to change the views of those opposed. There are lots of people that have their heads screwed on right, find a way to access that market and forget about the ones from the shallow end of the gene pool, they are far more trouble than they are worth and could end up causing you a major PITA .

I have contracted food poisoning a number of times from "Inspected"products or eating at "inspected" restarunts, never once from eating food I processed and cooked myself.

 

[jgervais]

lol - I just did a blog post on this same sort of thing, only with farm fresh eggs.

http://simplelifeainteasy.blogspot.com/2012/02/common-misconceptions-about-farm-fresh.html

I'm blaming television. It seems like people sit around and listen to all this 'news' and mis-guided advertisements and they fail to actually open their eyes, do a little research, visit a farm and make decisions for themselves.

I don't get frustrated about the money part, and I think this is the point you're making too, I just get so frustrated at the ignorance! It seems so clear to me and my family that farm fresh, free range and local is ALWAYS a better choice!

 

[yinepu]

I'm in the middle of a "meatie" project. There's 100 birds spread out to 7 people. I am hawking the birds I have to see if I can get friends and family to buy some down home, grass fed, free ranged. no antibiotic, no hormone, no ground up other chickens or chicken poop feed. Healthier for you and safer to eat. Some are saying, eww.. It's not sanitary.. Your not in a sterile environment like the factories. Your not inspected.. EWwWW!!

I try to quote father Joel Salatin and explain WHY it's far more sanitary and there's less pathogens.. so on and so forth.
I give up . More chickens for me and none for them..
You can lead a horse to water , but you can't make him drink.
Do other people have this problem?

lol.. let them go to work for a week in one of those "sterile" processing plants.. then see if they can even stand the smell of a grocery store chicken again

i've done my time in processing plants.. sure there may be inspectors there.. and the rules are followed when the inspector is watching.. but as soon as they are gone or turn their backs contaminated meat gets tossed right back in with the "good" meat.. been there, seen it happen way too many times... the employees don't get "sick days" like at most jobs.. so I have seen many who were sick, coughing and sneezing all over those nice "sterile" chickens.. I've seen employees on the line eating raw chicken .. licking their fingers and then handling the next bird.... sounds barbaric.. but yup.. it happens all the time

We had to wear hair nets and plastic aprons.. but that's the only precautions that we were told to take to avoid contamination of the meat.. nice huh?

in all honesty I think my yard is much cleaner environment than the processing plants