I did it! **"warning - graphic details"**

[PurpleChicken]

Don't worry about aim. Practice on a log first then hold the head down with
whatever you have. If you miss just strike again quickly. Keep your fingers
away. You can't eat those and you need them to process the bird.

Once the kids "digest" this day. They will eat it. My son calls the chicken by name
WHEN we are eating it. Drives his mom crazy.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Using a sharp axe and a chopping block is always the way we do it here...I remember growing up and my mother taking a hen out and doing this very deed for our Sunday dinners....

 

[PurpleChicken]

I betcha Mom was a tuff old hen.

I mean that with love, of course.

 

[crystal94040]

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how funny.


You want to do what??? With how many chickens??? Uhhhhh Whhhaaaaattt?
sounds like my DH haha

 

[quadcam79]

gives a whole new meaning to "choking the chicken"

 

[CarlaRiggs]

Crystal,
Thanks for the good laugh tonight.
I've got nine kids and your writing rings absolutely true.

I'm sure if you continue culling your chickens, soon one of the kids will ask if he can do it!
Congratulations on a job well done.

 

[crystal94040]

Th legs never "relaxed" Is this cause the water was too hot when I dipped him for plucking?

 

[peeps7]

Good Job!!!! That was hilarious that your DD was making his feet open and close, sounds like fun, LOL.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Hey PC...My mom was really a tuff old hen!, should have seen her shooting a gun and hunting rabbits, squirrel and deer!!!......lol...Taken in fun....

 

[silkiechicken]

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Yeah, you probably cooked it instantly when you dipped it into boiling water. In the future make sure the water is between 140 and 160 deg, and use a thermometer to check it. The skin won't rip either if you use the right temp water. Boiling water is about 212 deg and that will very quickly denature proteins. If the "meat" looks white on the legs, you cooked it.