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[chirpingcricket]

OH!  Okay!  Scott, round up Bunny (she's up your way,) swing down south on your way and pick up me and Chicka and Chirp!

Oz?  Did I detect a bit of a southern accent in your last post?  You DID say "y'all"..........

Chirp, Chirp Chirp!!!

 

[chickadoodles]

OH! Okay! Scott, round up Bunny (she's up your way,) swing down south on your way and pick up me and Chicka and Chirp!

Oz? Did I detect a bit of a southern accent in your last post? You DID say "y'all"..........

just let me know when to have a bag ready!

 

[chirpingcricket]

Right now, we are just using an old card table with a plastic table cloth over it.  But as we move along in this experiment, we find out what works and what doesn't.  The plan is to end up with 52 chickens a year in the deep freeze.  Not all culled at once though.
I am thinking the work table height needs to be standard counter top height.  36".  The card table is just too low and hurts my back.
I need to come up with a design for a portable outside chicken processing cart.  With storage for utensils etc.  Easy to sanitize.  Not too large, so I can move it around.  I am 5'2", and middle aged.  
I am thinking of modifying a stainless steel prep table from restaurant supply.  Used of course. Need wheels.  And some sort of rack and maybe pushcart handles.  

Hey, my thoughts exactly! DH had to put a big heavy duty plastic tub on top of the picnic table, covered it with cardboard to reduce slipping... because it was difficult for me to stay bent over and see inside the cavity. Definitely with you on the age thingy...
Think the table you are planning would be a dream! We will need to have something else ready, should we need it again. Guessing that's a high possibility...

 

[chirpingcricket]

Hey ya'll....heehee! (Oz?)
Ms. Clessie started her hatch in the wee hours this morning...If you don't mind, just wanted to share a few photos. She has 7 to go. Waiting on eggs in the bator too...Day #14 today. Thanks, Chirp

 

[chirpingcricket]

On another note...warning, this may be too sensitive for some folks.
DH getting one of our first roos drunk on the grill. (Drunk chicken) Photos. Tasted very good! :/

 

[Bunnylady]

well i wanted to make sure i was understood talking to a bunch of southerners.

Oh, you don't have to worry about me, I'm bilingual. Shoot, thanks to all the BBC shows that have run on PBS, I can even do a fair job of understandin' "furriners" like you, mate.

I don't know, I may have told this story before. If so, excusez-moi, s'il vous plait. Due to my - ah - mixed parentage ( for many years, my parents had a card on an end table in the living room that read, "Both Yankee and Southern spoken here"), I have a fairly neutral 'Murkin accent. Anyway, I sang in the chorus when I was in college. Every year, we went on tour during Spring Break, and one year we wound up getting to spend a day in New York City. Some of my friends had never been out of North Carolina before - really! When four of us ate lunch at a restaurant, it was clear from her accent that the waitress was NYC born-and-bred (though my ear isn't good enough to guess at which borough). Don't know how far from her birthplace she had ever wandered, but I literally had to translate between my friends and the waitress - both ways!

 

[gryeyes]

One of the things left on the property by the sellers is a very nice stainless steel table which both HHandbasket and Farmer Lew immediately began to covet. It's the right height and has a built in backsplash. They process chickens; one of my "visiting" roosters has been looking mighty fine to HH, so she was disappointed to learn he's breeding stock. He's a gorgeous black Orpington from Papa Brooder eggs I hatched at Easter. Not a black Australorp, a black Orpington. He has a putative wife in my flock, equally as impressive. I have a splash orp cockerel (he hasnt crowed yet, so he's still here) and a Lemon Cuckoo Orpington pullet from that hatch, too. The #!*%#+¥!!# skunk got the LC Orpington cockerel when he was a much smaller bird, dang it.

They are fostering six cockerels for me until I have coopage at the new place.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Here...I started a thread on portable processing stations. I hope I get some posts on it;


www.backyardchickens.com/t/825238/show-me-your-back-yard-chicken-processing-stations

 

[chirpingcricket]

Here...I started a thread on portable processing stations. I hope I get some posts on it;


www.backyardchickens.com/t/825238/show-me-your-back-yard-chicken-processing-stations

 

[gryeyes]

John the Contractor is free to start TODAY!! We're gonna go to the property to plan, then straight to HD to purchase materials. He will unload 'em tomorrow and begin the work for Coop #1.

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