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Ema, hold the bird upside down until it relaxes then tie it to the post. They will fight at first but within less then a minute they will just relax and the wings will open up. The blood goes to the birds head and they passout. Keep the bird upside down from then on. The bird won't struggle after that. It will be much easier to cut and bleed out. You will get the slight twitching after the bleed but it's not that bad.
Below is a site that helped us with processing. My husband recently passed away so I no longer process. We've only did it once and I think we did very well. I did the culling and he gutted the bird. We too wondered why the feathers weren't coming off as easy as it was suppose to so after the second bird we warmed the water up a few degrees and pretso..... worked like a charm. The feathers fell out. The water had cooled and that was the problem. Good luck.
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/livestocksystems/DI0701.html
Ema, hold the bird upside down until it relaxes then tie it to the post. They will fight at first but within less then a minute they will just relax and the wings will open up. The blood goes to the birds head and they passout. Keep the bird upside down from then on. The bird won't struggle after that. It will be much easier to cut and bleed out. You will get the slight twitching after the bleed but it's not that bad.
Below is a site that helped us with processing. My husband recently passed away so I no longer process. We've only did it once and I think we did very well. I did the culling and he gutted the bird. We too wondered why the feathers weren't coming off as easy as it was suppose to so after the second bird we warmed the water up a few degrees and pretso..... worked like a charm. The feathers fell out. The water had cooled and that was the problem. Good luck.
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/livestocksystems/DI0701.html