Processing Day Support Group ~ HELP us through the Emotions PLEASE!

[Sally Sunshine]

where do you get your bags and would a big brahma roo fit in one? ps... awesome! and labeled? you sell them?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Good questions!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Hey CC! our first time we are sending them out and if we can eat them fine I do see some meaties in our near future! So happy we can help support each other! Sometimes I feel really stupid for letting emotions get the best of me and now I realize I sure aint the only tenderhearted nor is it a bad thing! It just needs some work right?

 

[chicksooner]

Meat and Poultry Injected with Salt/Water Solution Needs Labeling, USDA Rules

No wonder I never knew it! Now why wouldn't they HAVE to tell us they added to it!

and it says not in effect until 2014! I honestly had no clue! What about people that cant have too much salt!

"The USDA has finally decided consumers should know when a meat product is composed of 40 percent water-salt solution. Wow, you think? Congratulations, Department of Agriculture, for at last addressing the common industry practice of pumping ingredients into meat and supporting adequate labeling.
According to the agency, 30% of poultry, 15% of beef and 90% of pork contain "added solution." Yet current guidelines don't make it clear to consumers when meat has been treated and may consist of solutions that "can have more than five times as much sodium as occurs naturally in those foods," according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)."http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/blog/22/198

Us people who can't have too much salt are pretty much sc***ed...Sodium is pretty much in anything that isn't a fruit or a vegetable. Another reason to grow your own.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Adding..... did I see you throw the gizzard guts to your chickens?

and wondering if they could be ground up and fed to other animals?

 

[chicksooner]

where do you get your bags and would a big brahma roo fit in one? ps... awesome! and labeled? you sell them?

bags I think I will need really big ones too. I don't see me doing many whole birds but maybe halves.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: YES it is! I am finding many plusses here!

 

[paridisefarm2009]

They are relaxed once I tell them God is going to take them to chicken heaven
You only need to scald them less than a minute you have to make sure the water is the proper temp I do 154 and it is perfect so it don't cook the bird if you over scald the skin rips Before I scald them I wash them with soap and water and smoosh out any poop in there area I like to scald and pluck a clean bird ,maybe its just me But I have this whole procedure I go through
When I gut them I keep the neck of course and the gizzard the rest I toss to the crows and vultures that come around . I make great stock from the feet, backs ,necks
I have a few other videos on you tube I think you can find if you search my name jean Montle I will probably post others also
I did Make the plucker my self But next time I am defiantly making a tub style one Because It kills my arms to hold the birds and pluck it , its easy But its a Lotta work . especially when I had to do 42 birds , Took me a span of 3 weeks because I had to work on them on my days off and my days would run in to 12 hours to do 10 birds from start to finish up in the house getting them all packaged or cut up , But let me tell you my freezer is full now

 

[paridisefarm2009]

Adding..... did I see you throw the gizzard guts to your chickens?

and wondering if they could be ground up and fed to other animals?

Oh yes they Love the innards too I gave them the lungs and the heart and livers Not too much else and yea the inside or the gizzard still had food so its kinda like my chicken coop re purposed or reclaimed recycled LOL

 

[paridisefarm2009]

where do you get your bags and would a big brahma roo fit in one? ps... awesome! and labeled? you sell them?

I ordered my bage's from this place called http://www.cornerstone-farm.com And the labels too the bags are sooooo easy to use it literly takes 2 seconds in boiling water or 180 no longer or you will start to cook the bird . you place the order and check out thru pay pal and the order ships pretty quick .