Culling question

[Invision]

Would it be better to cull all my ducks and chickens them butcher the afterwards? Keeping them on ice of course before butchering.

 

[Monkeybean415]

I'm not super experienced but I think it's better to do the process all together. My husband and I do them in batches of 8

 

[slingshotandLAR]

I say no....

If I'm understanding you right, you want to kill them all than process them all? How many do you have?

Either way you you should do a few at a time, if you kill them all first they will rigor up on you and will be much harder to process.

How many people you have helping? If you have 3 you can assembly line them, one kills( we use cones, one scalds and plucks and one finishes and gets them on ice. Normally I run the cones my wife scalds and plucks then I clean and get them in a ice bath, we can do a fair number in a hour. I go back and forth between the cones and gutting and cleaning while she plucks.