Mental Preparation For Processing

[ksacres]

Well, if I can't rehome some of the banty cockerals I have, I may have to consider it. I'm sure people used to eat whatever they could catch...

 

[Buster]

I didn't have anywhere for him to live but a cage because the rest of my chickens are "real" chickens. I've hunted game birds smaller than him so I knew there was meat on him. I didn't want him to have to live in a cage his entire life. He was too small to mount my standard hens and pulled all the feathers out of their necks and I didn't want him fighting with my faverolle rooster either, so he was in a cage. I couldn't find anyone who wanted him, so we just ate him. It was the most practical thing to do.

 

[WDPKS]

My wife & I are 4-H leaders here in So. Ca. for the last 18 yr. now, every group of kids we get we try & teach them "about" processing, yes we do butch the birds, but we just doing have a blood & gut thing, we make it a biology & study how the bird is put together & how the body works, like show them what they have eaten in their crop, gizzard & intestine & how the food is lprocessed in stages, along with splitting along with explaining the heart. We have found that the older the kids the more problems we have, the younger ones are fasinated by it & the parents are fine with it & interesed also. We don't make them watch the "kill" if they don't want to but encourage them for the rest & also to help if they want, again the younger the easier to join in the processing. We use the word processing with them because it is no as scarey or neg. sounding

Our own kids we started them butchering all of our animals, pigs rabbits, goats, beef, etc at five. The larger animal I'll even take an eye & split it at have the kids study it. This is what we call science

 

[PurpleChicken]

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That's great. The kids learn so much. My wife does the same with the processing
and our son. She makes it a biology lesson. Now when we process he tells me
what every organ is.

The younger kids really do handle it better. This is something many people have said.
In fact, he handles it better than me sometimes.

 

[mudhen]

You got a great kid there, but you already know that!

What an excellent experience and example for him to learn where food comes from. So many kids today just don't get it.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Thanks Mudhen!!

Where have you been? We all miss you! How's the flock?

 

[TheFunnyFarm]

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This is really cute....if you don't mind Im making my husband a little sign of this to hang on the coop