Just finished harvesting my 8th bird in 5 days (old hens, excess cockerels from 13wks to 7mos),
mostly mine but 3 were a friends(who was rather ungrateful-grindsteeth).
No help here and can only do a few at a time.
Making room for new layers and have another 7 to do before fall.
Learning curve is hard, I've done 10 total since starting this journey and am getting better at it, improving tools and technique along the way.
I'm all about chickens for food and not really sentimental about them, but it's still hard to take a life.....and slicing the $hit out of your own flesh in the process.
Instant Karma maybe?.....blood for some blood?
Now have room in coop to move the 5wo chicks out of the house and into the coop where they belong-finally.
Need to do some setup for that, but building stuff is fun.....
......but really need to mow before more rain comes Friday, geezuz do the chores ever end?
Looking forward to getting the chicks out with new coop partition improvements that should speed integration.
That'll be fun to watch.
Just venting where it's understood, no need to respond...thanks for reading and I appreciate the understanding and empathy.
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. The interior is not cleaning up so well though. I think I'll need to get in there with a scrub brush and scraper. We're going to put some stick tile down to aid in future cleaning. 
