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Molpet said:
I have a yard bird.. plucks 2 birds in under a min... but it needs feathers pulled out after a couple of heritage birds or 4 cx mixes.. the feathers get hung up and stall the machine... easy to clean when done.. good if your doing at least 4 birds.
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I don’t think I would want to do more than 4 birds in a day anyway. I’m the only eviscerator.
 
Redhead Rae said:
I don’t think I would want to do more than 4 birds in a day anyway. I’m the only eviscerator.
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sigh I do it all by myself :hit
The most I have done at once is 5 cockerels and a turkey.. I can eviscerate a cockerel in 15 min... but it took me from 7:30 am when I started setting up to 11 am for the cockerels.. then I took a break and did the turkey... clean up done at 1:30 pm ...
I have the birds 150 ft from the cone and the cone 200 ft from the plucker and table... I was worried about the cone blood drawing varmints so I put it as far away from the chicken yard w/- crossing the creek.. no evidence it was drawing predators.
need to move the cone, already built another hoop coop near the plucker area.
 
Redhead Rae said:
Well guys, I'm taking a tea and ice cream break between killing/plucking and eviscerating. It was DH's idea. I love that man. The Milk Drinker went down for his nap at 11:15 this morning. MUCH earlier than I wanted him to. I was able to get partially set up while he was asleep and get lunch, but he woke during lunch. So DH is on MD duty. My FIL helped with the Plucking, but I fly solo on evisceration for now. I didn't think I would be so bad off since I had my lunch before starting, but I'm prone to hypoglycemia and when I botched the cut on the first bird (I severed the wind pipe before I got the jugular) I got the adrenaline shakes. I was able to calm myself down and get on with the other two birds, but that made my blood sugar drop.

My SIL wants to learn how to eviscerate, but we need to get her a knife of her own and she is feeling sick today.

We live in a Hollow. So there are hills all over the place. literally all around us. I'll take some panoramic photos sometime soon.

I planning on writing a blog post about my processing... well... process at some point. I do things differently to a lot of people (breaking backs, cutting the tail off, dislocating the hips). It doesn't make for a nice looking carcass, but it is effective.


Exactly!

I plan to nominate my DH or my SIL to photograph the entire process one of these days.

Well, the ice cream is gone and I have birds that need gutting. I'll let you guys know how everything goes.
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Molpet said:
sigh I do it all by myself :hit
The most I have done at once is 5 cockerels and a turkey.. I can eviscerate a cockerel in 15 min... but it took me from 7:30 am when I started setting up to 11 am for the cockerels.. then I took a break and did the turkey... clean up done at 1:30 pm ...
I have the birds 150 ft from the cone and the cone 200 ft from the plucker and table... I was worried about the cone blood drawing varmints so I put it as far away from the chicken yard w/- crossing the creek.. no evidence it was drawing predators.
need to move the cone, already built another hoop coop near the plucker area.
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I get help with wrangling the birds, scalding and plucking. The slaughtering and evisceration is all me. By my current count, I’ve done in 35 cockerels now. I’m 100% internet taught. At my best this past summer, I eviscerated 3 cockerels in just under an hour (I tried to get livers but left the gizzards). Today was harder because of the low blood sugar episode, not having done any processing since.... September... I think, and the cockerels were all over 8 months old which means they were tougher. They are SOO much easier to process before 6 months. The easiest ones I did were 3.5 months. I’d really like to work with someone more experienced at some point.
 
rjohns39 said:
Sorry D I don't have any pix. I had a bushel of beans so I started with five pounds of potatoes and about 3 pounds of carrots and maybe 8 pounds of onions and probably four pounds of garlic. I put a quarter pound of bacon in every quart jar. I did dice it up fine. Then I mixed the veg and put a big spoonful in each jar. Then topped the jar off with cut beans and then added stock. Sorry for not being exact.

So, let's convert your favorite recipe... How do you cook green beans? Prepare the aromatics, meat and beans... measure into jars and cover with stock. add spices that you like and pressure can for 90 minutes.
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Too easy Drill Sergeant!!! Definitely growing beans this year. I am canning SOMETHING this year come hell or high water damn it!!!!

Redhead Rae said:
I get help with wrangling the birds, scalding and plucking. The slaughtering and evisceration is all me. By my current count, I’ve done in 35 cockerels now. I’m 100% internet taught. At my best this past summer, I eviscerated 3 cockerels in just under an hour (I tried to get livers but left the gizzards). Today was harder because of the low blood sugar episode, not having done any processing since.... September... I think, and the cockerels were all over 8 months old which means they were tougher. They are SOO much easier to process before 6 months. The easiest ones I did were 3.5 months. I’d really like to work with someone more experienced at some point.
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I wanna go to RJs and have him teach me hands on... in the meantime, I too will be 100% internet taught. I had asked the neighbor if HE could teach me.... him being a hunter and a farm boy and all.... he gave me the MOST quizzical look, asking how the hell would HE know... he'd never processed a chicken!!! :gig but they raise chickens.... of course, this is the neighbor whose chickens continually get carried off by predators....
 

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