Wish me luck.

[TyrannosaurusChix]

LMAO!!!! im sorry.. the frist sentence totally threw me into a dexter episode.


Tonight's the night....

Good luck!

 

[Uzuri]

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Mom didn't believe that when I told her just about the same thing either! I never have liked to handle raw meat, but I had no difficulty here.

 

[Mrs. Feathers]

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My BF thought the same thing. You can do it. I just made a deal with him you cut, I gut and it works out well. I'm getting faster with everyone. I just wish I could do the cut. Maybe if I get a few drinky-drinky in me I will be able to do it. LOL

We think along the same lines mstricer....hmmm we are processing on Saturday morning might be a bit early for a few drinky-drinks and I`d probably end up cutting all my hens and leaving all the roos!!!! One of these days I am just going to suck it up and get on with the task rather than leaving the unpleasant jobs for DH. Mind you I do handle all the pooh!

 

[Mrs. Feathers]

Good for you for being brave and getting down to the task! I am going to think of you when my turn comes in two days. Although with all the annoying crowing going on I am ready to decapitate each of them to stop the noise

right about now.

 

[Uzuri]

The fact that we were pretty well sick of the "brutes" helped with getting rid of the roosters. They sure tell you when they're ready to go!

 

[Mrs. Feathers]

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I am with you. Today I am ready to send all my roos to the BBQ and just focus on eggs for awhile. I have a group of 7 week olds so might see what comes out of that group. The one I was going to keep from my 19 week olds pecked at me last night and has started giving us stinkeye....I think he just bought himself a first class ticket on the freezer camp bus.

 

[Mrs. Feathers]

How old were your birds Uzuri?

 

[Sunny Side Up]

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Or if you have too many pre-session drinks you could cut your own wrist by accident. Doing The Deed is quite a departure for many of us, especially those raised in a modern urban setting. We're not accustomed to calmly & deliberately killing an animal that we're not disgusted by, afraid of, or threatened by, one that we may know & have cared for, in order to have food on our table. But I've found it rather empowering, to know I have mastered this basic human survival skill. I also consider it the final kindness I can give these birds, to make sure their end is as quick & efficient as possible, therefore the most humane.

 

[Uzuri]

Mrs. Feathers -- they were 18 weeks. Dual-purpose birds, so they hung around A LOT longer than the crosses. They ranged from 2.5 (small hens to almost 4 pounds). Mostly dark meat. I've got one that doesn't hardly have a scrap of breast meat, but has legs about a foot long XD

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I'd save the alcohol for afters. I had enough difficulty getting the bird and not my fingers as it was

 

[flowerchild59]

Great job. Maybe I can actually do it someday.
You spoke of the yolks in the hen. My grannie told me that when she was a girl it was such a treat to get the "unlaid" egg. I would love to see that in person. Did you eat them?