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[SallyinIndiana]

Built a chicken plucker this weekend. Thing works amazing. If anyone is thinking about making one I highly recommend it. It's as good as advertised we did 6 jumbo Cornish x. attached are some pics of the final product.

Are you considering making them for others? If so how much would you charge for one? I'm not sure I can convince Dh but it would be nice to have skin on the chicken again. He has been skinning all of the chickens that he processes this year so far.

 

[ChickCrazed]

Built a chicken plucker this weekend. Thing works amazing. If anyone is thinking about making one I highly recommend it. It's as good as advertised we did 6 jumbo Cornish x. attached are some pics of the final product.

Pretty cool! How difficult is it to clean with all those rubbery bits? Not that I will EVER get to the point of processing my own, I will probably hire it out if I ever get to the point of processing my own. I give you guys lots of props for being able to do it! I would be one of the first to die in a zombie Apocalypse because I couldn't eat any of my animals

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[hoosiercheetah]

Then the snakes eat your chicks and steal your eggs.

This is starting to sound like "The Cat in the Hat"....

Point. I still think snakes are awesome.

So ya. Traps traps traps. And try to figure out what they're eating, and starve them out.

I definitely don't do snakes. There are not many things that turn me into a shrieking girly girl and snakes are one of those things. Aaaahhhhhhhhhh. In answer to your other question, I have a horse barn about 6 feet from the chicken coop and the mice are out of control in there also. It is becoming a major problem in both places.

Then the snakes eat your chicks and steal your eggs.

This is starting to sound like "The Cat in the Hat"....

Point. So no snakes.

That pretty much leaves traps and eliminating food sources. And traps and traps and traps. But if you don't remove access to food, you'll never get rid of them.

They can be very sneaky. I'll try to find the pictures I took in my garage last year. I had an enterprising mouse that had got into a bag of wild bird seed. It was carrying the seeds across the garage, climbing up the back of the shelves inside my tool box (one of those big roll-away rigs) and stashing them in my deep-well sockets. It had filled three sockets before I found out what it was up to.

 

[ChickCrazed]

Point. I still think snakes are awesome.

So ya. Traps traps traps. And try to figure out what they're eating, and starve them out.



Point. So no snakes.

That pretty much leaves traps and eliminating food sources. And traps and traps and traps. But if you don't remove access to food, you'll never get rid of them.

They can be very sneaky. I'll try to find the pictures I took in my garage last year. I had an enterprising mouse that had got into a bag of wild bird seed. It was carrying the seeds across the garage, climbing up the back of the shelves inside my tool box (one of those big roll-away rigs) and stashing them in my deep-well sockets. It had filled three sockets before I found out what it was up to.

That is hilarious. The horses spill so much grain when they eat it is like a freaking buffet and it will be a never ending problem. I know i need to man up and invest in a bunch of traps.

 

[number9]

Built a chicken plucker this weekend. Thing works amazing. If anyone is thinking about making one I highly recommend it. It's as good as advertised we did 6 jumbo Cornish x. attached are some pics of the final product.

Me and the neighbor built one last fall. We had a little problem with belt tension and added another idler arm and it works great now.

 

[atrueb00]

You roasted a Silkie???

We raised 8 Cornish X in April & May, that is what the roasted chicken is. Definitely not one of my babies!

 

[atrueb00]

It must be great to be able to do that, they have been bred for meat, I guess I was so excited at having animals of any kind I've totally spoilt them, they love to cuddle up and are very friendly,
I think of them as pets but I know I can't keep the cockerels which as a worry as my favourite and friendliest chicken is looking a bit cockerally
I'm not sure if it should be easier or harder being a vegetarian to kill them!?

The Cornish X were so different from the silkies I also have. They didn't have the personality the silkies have and were very sedentary. I would let them out to free range and most of the time they would stay inside the run, then slowly make their way outside, the end up just sitting the grass. I still made the effort to get them out and enjoying the spring weather, but they mostly like to sit and eat. I've always prepared meat for holidays (turkeys, ham, beef, etc) and have no issues because I am not eating it. My mom and sister in law, however, really don't like preparing raw meat and get grossed out really easily-I've always thought it was because they knew they were going to be eating it.

Hope that your fav is a hen! It is hard to have to deal with cockerels knowing they will most likely end up in someone's soup pot.

 

[raisinemright]

Anyone have BLRW chicks or pullets, I'd like a nice cockerel also if available? Just throwing this question out there, I know it's one in a million to find right now.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Anyone have BLRW chicks or pullets, I'd like a nice cockerel also if available? Just throwing this question out there, I know it's one in a million to find right now.

my hen went broody before she even laid 50 eggs. I think she might have one of her own eggs under her but most of her eggs are from my other hens.

@LonelyPageTurne might have a rooster but he is not up to the SOP size standard. She got him from me. I got him from Brad. Brad got him from ... He is of the Foley linage. He might be spoken for already though as Lonely is rehoming all of her chickens temporarily.

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

my hen went broody before she even laid 50 eggs.  I think she might have one of her own eggs under her but most of her eggs are from my other hens.

@LonelyPageTurne
  might have a rooster but he is not up to the SOP size standard.  She got him from me.  I got him from Brad.  Brad got him from ...  He is of the Foley linage.  He might be spoken for already though as Lonely is rehoming all of her chickens temporarily. 

He's dead.