Silkie Processing Video - WARNING

[lovemychix]

Wow. Killing and eating my chickens would be like eating my cat. Power to ya.

I was raised on a chicken farm and my mom wouldn't let us even go to the chicken house and play with them because she didn't want us to think of them as pets. The assembly line was crazy. 200+ chickens flopping in the yard and the hot bath and electric pluckers. This was in the 70's. We did field crops and chicken houses. Remember when the average joe could make a living at this.

My dad passed away when I was in 3rd grade sold the farm and now I have my own chickens...as pets.

I buy my chickens at the store already plucked and defurred. Silkies are like fur to me.

 

[Mrs MIA]

PC...Yep... I'm the same way. We did two turkeys, hubby and me, each under 30 minutes each from whack to fridge. But when you have 20 cornish to do, I can think of better things to do on my weekend than pluck birds. But we really want to keep raising the meat birds. The boys are dissing the storebought birds already, and I'm ok with that! LOL!

 

[PurpleChicken]

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The first few times you slaughter a bird is not easy. If you had to kill
a bird to feed your family because there was no other food available
you would do it.

Being "chicken" is normal. Many of our friends will come to our
chicken parties but refrain from the processing part of the party.
That's ok too. We all have to be our own people.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Quote:
Well you have continued the tradition of chicken farming. Our silkie
and laying flocks are pets. We couldn't process them either.
Your dad would be proud.

 

[lovemychix]

I have more feed in my chickens than what I can buy them at the supermarket for. Raising chickens cost a lot of money.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

PC...Yep... I'm the same way. We did two turkeys, hubby and me, each under 30 minutes each from whack to fridge. But when you have 20 cornish to do, I can think of better things to do on my weekend than pluck birds. But we really want to keep raising the meat birds. The boys are dissing the storebought birds already, and I'm ok with that! LOL!

Oh yeah, next time we process this many we will have a plucker for sure.

That's cool your kids don't like the store bought birds. Mine gets all mad
at me when I even look at them at the store.

 

[lovemychix]

Quote:
Well you have continued the tradition of chicken farming. Our silkie
and laying flocks are pets. We couldn't process them either.
Your dad would be proud.

confused? I know that is a question....

You just processed a silkie....and you said our silkie and laying flocks are pets.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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I hear you.... but my thinking is that it's healthier, and I can taste the difference.

I just don't name them all anymore.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Quote:
Well you have continued the tradition of chicken farming. Our silkie
and laying flocks are pets. We couldn't process them either.
Your dad would be proud.

confused? I know that is a question....

You just processed a silkie....and you said our silkie and laying flocks are pets.

The silkie we processed was a nasty roo who was given away and then
returned for being so nasty. Then it attacked some of the other birds.
It belonged to MoodusNewChick who won't process her silkies either
but had no choice. The bird was rotten.

My silkie flock consists of show quality birds I've hatched myself. It just
cost me $52 to ship one to a friend in Texas so he could have a good
home. We don't keep roosters for long because of our neighbors. It
would have been a lot easier to just cull him, and cheaper.

 

[lovemychix]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

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I hear you.... but my thinking is that it's healthier, and I can taste the difference.

I just don't name them all anymore.

I always make a great country style gravy to go on my store bought chicken. My daughter just can't hardly eat chicken anymore after having them for pet....poor thing.
We are getting some silkies this weekend. Even thinking about making some diapers for them so they can be in the house sometimes.