We still have 7-8 more chickens to process around a week before Christmas. I find I can skin them faster than plucking. So a plucker is on my wish list besides incubators and brooder box stuff.
We did a production red capon and left the other production red as a rooster, the capon is much bigger.
We gave away Nugget my haffie roo, my bf couldn't stand the thought to process him, but he was getting very very loud very often. The speckled sussex were very loud roosters.
The ducks took so long to process! I'm not looking forward to that again.
My meat doe Grace absorbed her pregnancy, so we rebreed her this past Sunday. My friend who breed her says if we don't want to keep her they want her, she's adorable.
It's very hard to cull and process. I hear bunnies are easier. I cry, but I'm soft hearted. I know these critters have such a great happy life here with me, and the meat at the store really isn't as happy and humanely processed as my animals. This feeds my family and friends. I keep reassuring myself this.
It is getting easier, as practicality sets in. But emotions still come into play.. obviously as we rehomed a rooster instead of eating him and his nane is Nugget. Lol.
A plucker would make things so much easier.
Don't tempt me with the property next door being abandoned for 6+ years and the neighbors suggested that they're open to me "expanding" my urban homestead into that yard. Don't be giving me no ideas now.
We did a production red capon and left the other production red as a rooster, the capon is much bigger.
We gave away Nugget my haffie roo, my bf couldn't stand the thought to process him, but he was getting very very loud very often. The speckled sussex were very loud roosters.
The ducks took so long to process! I'm not looking forward to that again.
My meat doe Grace absorbed her pregnancy, so we rebreed her this past Sunday. My friend who breed her says if we don't want to keep her they want her, she's adorable.
It's very hard to cull and process. I hear bunnies are easier. I cry, but I'm soft hearted. I know these critters have such a great happy life here with me, and the meat at the store really isn't as happy and humanely processed as my animals. This feeds my family and friends. I keep reassuring myself this.
It is getting easier, as practicality sets in. But emotions still come into play.. obviously as we rehomed a rooster instead of eating him and his nane is Nugget. Lol.
A plucker would make things so much easier.
Don't tempt me with the property next door being abandoned for 6+ years and the neighbors suggested that they're open to me "expanding" my urban homestead into that yard. Don't be giving me no ideas now.
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