Processed my broilers Saturday. Ended up using a very primitive (and relatively cheap) set-up (wood fire, hand plucking and the restraining cone I bought was too small so they got strung up in a tree with nylon string!). I got something right though bc, for all the trauma those birds sustained in my "care," the roo was 6.25lbs dressed and the pullets were each about 4.5lbs! Brining one for dinner later. Planning for more in three weeks... I'll need something to eat my BSF larva and all the volunteer squash growing in my garden compost pile. Thinking about trying some turkeys with the next batch.
Will check it out.
And I tried to order fertilized eggs, they are really hard to find in Quebec also. Oh well, I suppose in the end, my white and brown eggs do the job as well as blue eggs, it is just less original in the egg basket 
I didn't get the bubbies pickle juice added until it had been almost 24 hours and had it inside and it ran low on water once, so I restarted it outside (80-90 degrees) with a little less squash and plenty of water. The stuff my chicks are eating now is probably really just soaked and not truly fermented, but still better than dry and hopefully the ferment will take this time!
