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

[chiques chicks]

I am trying to pawn them off on my son!

No seriously I am bagging two and starting them around noon today.... wish me luck, because right now I am sorta gagish but I am making myself eat chicken nuggets for lunch to knock some sense in to me!!

If you can eat chicken nuggets, you can east homegrown chicken. The ones they sell at that major fast food place, as well as the chicken they use in that major soup brand are not the most tender young chickens nor at they raised with the care yours are.

(what do you think they do with all the "spent" layer hens from factory egg farms, just saying, not positive about the nuggets, but they are so processed as to be unrecognizable as chicken, to me)

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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I LIVE BY grow gel! the stuff ROCKS and well worth buying it! I got mine from ebay, but I am going to buy in bulk now. Its much better to treat sick chicks with the gel, when they chirp you can put a tad in their mouth and they swallow on their own instead of getting water or electrolytes down in their lungs with liquid!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

The lady said she sent RIR Roos and Production Red Roos as warmth birds

are these meaties????? crud!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[Liberty Nursery]

I just slaughtered my first chicken yesterday, a Cornish X Rock I received from TSC. The work involved was much easier than people make it out to be but the emotional side seems to have destroyed me. I was going to eat it for dinner last night but I lost my appetite for chicken. Its in the freezer.

They say not to name the birds but I named my 2 Cornish X Rocks anyways... Their names are Lunch and Dinner. It helped actually. My biggest mistake was to not have all my tools at the site when I did this. Due to the flies that just swarmed me right after the blood was drawn I had to carry this fresh kill where ever I went. I thought this was something I can handle, and I did but just barely. I still have one more to slaughter but its getting another week of life as I need to recover from the first one. Hopefully after the next one I will have been desensitized to this process.

anyways I need to thank BYC for giving me a place to post this because no one I know wants to hear about it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

ITS IN THE BAG!

Well two of them are! HOME STRETCH HERE!



Yupped Def bagged me some chicken!


NOTE: WATCH VIDEOS CAREFULLY ON HOW TO cut to TUCK FEET, because if you don't they are stone cold legs in air! And a PAIN for Cooking whole!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I just slaughtered my first chicken yesterday, a Cornish X Rock I received from TSC. The work involved was much easier than people make it out to be but the emotional side seems to have destroyed me. I was going to eat it for dinner last night but I lost my appetite for chicken. Its in the freezer.

They say not to name the birds but I named my 2 Cornish X Rocks anyways... Their names are Lunch and Dinner. It helped actually. My biggest mistake was to not have all my tools at the site when I did this. Due to the flies that just swarmed me right after the blood was drawn I had to carry this fresh kill where ever I went. I thought thias was something I can handle, and I did but just barely. I still have one more to slaughter but its getting another week of life as I need to recover from the first one. Hopefully after the next one I will have been desensitized to this process.

anyways I need to thank BYC for giving me a place to post this because no one I know wants to hear about it.

Hello and Welcome to BYC, most people don't want to hear chicken and the jokes fall in! LOL

I agree I have actually gagged myself a few times earlier this week just thinking about having to look at them again!
HOWEVER, what I did was brine and salt them forcing me to cook them by the end of the week.....
I took them out and cleaned them up with a much easier heart to be honest, certainly don't look like our roos anymore, and the few days distance helped.
I could easily stuff them with apples and onions slather them with butter salt and pep and baggum up!


Keep tuned tonight to see if I can actually EAT them!

I didn't even think about the weather or Flies when I started! That is def something that should be thought about for sure!
Thank goodness it was a cool breezy day here in PA! WOW that had to be the worst!

 

[Wax Myrtle]

The lady said she sent RIR Roos and Production Red Roos as warmth birds

are these meaties?????  crud!

Hehe, was going to comment that they look identical to my production reds I hatched for the Easter hatch. Sure, they can be meaties - they'll taste just like chicken! Won't have the size of the commercial meat breeds, but my adults have respectable size, and I think the young cockerels should make wonderful soup and broth.

I think I'm going to also give in to the advice from my grandfather to fry a couple at about 14 weeks, just to see what he had as a child in the 1930s.

 

[ronott1]

I just slaughtered my first chicken yesterday, a Cornish X Rock I received from TSC. The work involved was much easier than people make it out to be but the emotional side seems to have destroyed me. I was going to eat it for dinner last night but I lost my appetite for chicken. Its in the freezer.

They say not to name the birds but I named my 2 Cornish X Rocks anyways... Their names are Lunch and Dinner. It helped actually. My biggest mistake was to not have all my tools at the site when I did this. Due to the flies that just swarmed me right after the blood was drawn I had to carry this fresh kill where ever I went. I thought this was something I can handle, and I did but just barely. I still have one more to slaughter but its getting another week of life as I need to recover from the first one. Hopefully after the next one I will have been desensitized to this process.

anyways I need to thank BYC for giving me a place to post this because no one I know wants to hear about it.

Good job!

We do like to talk about chickens her right!

Next time, do the work inside the house. It may be traditional, but there is no reason to subject yourself to flies and meat bees if you are processing one Cockerel.

 

[ronott1]

Hehe, was going to comment that they look identical to my production reds I hatched for the Easter hatch. Sure, they can be meaties - they'll taste just like chicken! Won't have the size of the commercial meat breeds, but my adults have respectable size, and I think the young cockerels should make wonderful soup and broth.

I think I'm going to also give in to the advice from my grandfather to fry a couple at about 14 weeks, just to see what he had as a child in the 1930s.

Yes! Traditional old time fryers were under 2#.....