We Quit Cigarettes

[FortCluck]

@webbysmeme Just know that there are brighter days ahead. The dark circles under your eyes are only temporary and they don't make who you are or define who you are. I'm sure he didn't mean to say it like that, but men arent great with their words.

 

[BantyChooks]

The one that I hatched and process got to live his life with the layer flock. He snuck through the chain link fence and went into their huge run so I just let him stay there until his last day. He had so much fun running around with everybody.

Congrats on doing it by yourself for the first time, btw. That's quite a milestone!

 

[FortCluck]

Congrats on doing it by yourself for the first time, btw. That's quite a milestone!

I didn't think I would be able to do it. I even said a prayer before I did it because I honestly didn't know if I had enough courage to do it.

When I was at high school I dated a hunter and I saw them process the meat all the time. I always cringed, but I learned a lot. I those experiences truly help me plus all the YouTube videos.

The first one I did was the hardest of them all because I had never done it before. After that first one it was super easy.

My husband calls me Chicken Slayer now

 

[CindyinSD]

My day was great, until late in the day. The little man seems overly fussy, and I can't figure out why. He keeps waking up and fussing, over and over again. Dog peed in the house for the first time, and he throws a royal shit fit whenever I try to put him outside. That is going to have to end, the howling and crazy stuff whenever he goes outside. Not happening.

Poor Shannon! Sounds like a rough evening. Hope your little guy feels better this morning, and the .

 

[FortCluck]

Now I want to try quail

 

[webbysmeme]

These three were going to be meat chickens from the beginning pretty much. Two of them are not even from my flock, I bought them and a chicken swap and I picked wrong. I thought I had females but I didn't. The biggest one was one that I created by crossing my Jersey Giant with my barred rock, he was made to be a meat bird.

I wouldn't eat any of my laying flock. They're safe. The weird part about me processing these chickens is that I am plant-based and I don't even eat meat, but my family does so I raised these chickens for them.

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Looks like you know what your doing. I want one of those shrink wrap machines. We buy a half beef and half pork every year. That butcher paper is not good. I put freezer bags on every package.

 

[BantyChooks]

I didn't think I would be able to do it. I even said a prayer before I did it because I honestly didn't know if I had enough courage to do it.

What I was at high school I dated a hunter and I saw them process the meat all the time. I always cringed, but I learned a lot. I those experiences truly help me plus all the YouTube videos.

The first one I did was the hardest of them all because I had never done it before. After that first one it was super easy.

My husband calls me Chicken Slayer now

I'd be lying if I said my hands weren't shaking pretty badly the first time. The last thing I wanted was to screw up and only injure it. I was supposed to have gone to someone else's place beforehand to help with their birds, so I could get some experience gutting and skinning before I did the whole process solo, but it didn't work out that way. It ended up taking me three or four hours to dress one bird.

 

[CindyinSD]

Here's me with my husband's crazy chicken. My phone is busted so I can't do selfies. But I found this one with no makeup

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I think all barred chickens are crazy... but then I've known approximately four, so...

 

[FortCluck]

Looks like you know what your doing. I want one of those shrink wrap machines. We buy a half beef and half pork every year. That butcher paper is not good. I put freezer bags on every package.

I got this one on Amazon at Christmas time and it was a Amazon warehouse deal. Basically somebody bought it and opened the box so Amazon couldn't sell it for the full price. I got it half off. It's super nice, it's the bigger sized foodsaver.

I bought it 2 Christmases ago with a gift card and it has really kept our food fresh.

If you do get one get the food bags or the rolls on Amazon because the food saver ones are so expensive and you can get them at a better deal on Amazon. I get off brands and they work just as good. The Walmart brand ones are really good too.

Everyone went bananas with this virus so the food saver brand one is the only rolls I could buy this time. They're almost double the price

 

[FortCluck]

I'd be lying if I said my hands weren't shaking pretty badly the first time. The last thing I wanted was to screw up and only injure it. I was supposed to have gone to someone else's place beforehand to help with their birds, so I could get some experience gutting and skinning before I did the whole process solo, but it didn't work out that way. It ended up taking me three or four hours to dress one bird.

I was a bit jittery the night before thinking about it, I didn't get much sleep. Once I got the first one done, my nerves called down. Husband did the deed to the last one, but I dressed all 3.

I skinned them so I didn't have to do any plucking. I guess that could be called cheating.

The second one I did was it orpington and that was a hot mess. I will never do an orpington again they have way too many feathers! It took forever with that one, but wetting the feathers really helped.

Did you do yours outside?

I bled mine out then brought them inside in a bucket and dressed them in my kitchen sink. It was so easy that way. I barely made a mess because I took everything out and tossed it in the trash.

Only issue I had was I smelt wet chicken feathers for hours afterwards and it wasn't even in my house It was just following me around. I even went to Walmart and I could still smell it