Got a hundred pounds of chicken in the shop fridge
It is getting to be fall, if not winter, so it is time to start preparing for the long months of snow, ice and frozen hoses. One of the things to do in preparation for that is to kill off all of the chickens that were raised for meat (as opposed to the egg layers and a couple of "pet" birds).
We had 11 big white meat birds left. We had raised a couple of batches of them and these were the last of the chicks that we got towards the end of summer. The better ones were upwards of 12 pounds liveweight. These silly chickens are as big as small turkeys! Only two at a time comfortably fit in the drum-plucker, which is designed to hold 5 "normal" sized birds.
Plucked and dressed, the biggest bird weighed just over 10 pounds. Imagine 11 of those things, plus a bag of dog treats (heads, necks and feet) crammed into the shop fridge along with 16 dozen eggs that are stored there right now. A few of them have been cut up into quarters, but most of them are whole roaster chickens. One of these things feeds my small family for half a week!
Next step is to dismantle the pen they had been living in and scrape off the chicken poop that has accumulated there. The pen panels will then be used to contain the dozen and a half ducks that are roaming around out there. They will be kept in the garden area over the winter so I won't have to haul water too far.
Mmmmmmmmm....chicken....
We had 11 big white meat birds left. We had raised a couple of batches of them and these were the last of the chicks that we got towards the end of summer. The better ones were upwards of 12 pounds liveweight. These silly chickens are as big as small turkeys! Only two at a time comfortably fit in the drum-plucker, which is designed to hold 5 "normal" sized birds.
Plucked and dressed, the biggest bird weighed just over 10 pounds. Imagine 11 of those things, plus a bag of dog treats (heads, necks and feet) crammed into the shop fridge along with 16 dozen eggs that are stored there right now. A few of them have been cut up into quarters, but most of them are whole roaster chickens. One of these things feeds my small family for half a week!
Next step is to dismantle the pen they had been living in and scrape off the chicken poop that has accumulated there. The pen panels will then be used to contain the dozen and a half ducks that are roaming around out there. They will be kept in the garden area over the winter so I won't have to haul water too far.
Mmmmmmmmm....chicken....
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