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Just taking a break house coming together slowly. Still have small leak somewhere, having that checked :mad:which means no laundry yet. Hubby is resting, helped with trach and peg tube, as always.Kiddo talked to me about church they didn't have youth program today.Besides all that pretty good day so far :bunHope everyone is having a good day :frowOh & 67 here :wee
 
FlyingNunFarm said:
If this works let me know! I'd live to hatch but can't find a solution to too many boys that I can handle.



Hey! What's wrong with Ohio? LOL
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I used to sell extra roosters at swap meets. Lots of people process their own in TN.
 
Good afternoon everyone!

I'm back from church. I took some chicken pictures (will follow shortly), cleaned up a Milk Drinker with poo up his back, had my lunch, read MD a story (I taught him the sign for "read" so he can request story-time and he just started using the sign today), and vegged a bit.

I really need to kill off some roosters. Tomorrow would be an excellent day to do it, but we need to get our van in the shop, me and MD to the Chiropractor, and our outdoor kitty to the vet (general check-up and seeing if she needs to be spayed). I think I have enough to do tomorrow and I'll plan to do in 3 of them on Saturday. I have 9 I need to do in. 2 Leghorn crosses that are 8 months old, a New Hampshire and a Delaware that are 9 months, and 5 Black Cochin/Dominiques BSL boys. I think I might wait a while on the BSL guys. But they are 17 weeks now so they are a good age for eating. I think I'll power-wash the coop tomorrow afternoon, like I was talking about doing.

Chicken Surprise is looking nice. It is a month old now.
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Definitely not full buff though. I'm thinking it is a Delaware mix.
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But with the color in those wattles, I think I have another cockerel on my hands.
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Here is a good picture of Inca, our Buff Rooster. I'm loving the white in that one tail feather.
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Here is one of my Buff girls.
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My Dominique/Buff girls have come out of their molt looking quite lovely!
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My Dominique/RIR girl looks like she's half gone. She's in molt now and looks miserable.
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Before the really cold weather hit, I was considering if I needed to cull this Dominique hen. She had almost no feathers for 2 months and was hiding all the time. She also has a very pendulous rear, which made her look deformed. Now she looks amazing. I'm glad I didn't cull her.
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This is Big Head. Our Leghorn/EE girl who lays mint green eggs. She looked horrible for a while but she looks like a new bird now.
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Molasses, looking good as always. So handsome!
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Decided to include one of my New Hampshire pullets as well. Just for the heck of it.
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Over all, I think my birds are happy with this weather (Mid 50s).
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TexasSam said:
I'm looking for a good knife for processing any recommendations
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I use three different knives. I use one for killing, one for evisceration and one for doing cut-ups. I really want to try one of their vent knives but haven't found good justification.

Here's the video I watched to learn cut-ups, it's much more cool to see him do it in person.


TexasSam said:
You have a compressor and air hose?
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Yup. Draining it now so I can look for critters, clean the orifices and lines. Unfortunately, it has to be upside down to work on it.
 

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