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    A neighbor brought some chickens over this morning and we ended up processing a total of 32 of their birds and ours. Between all of us, none had experience processing chickens, but Mrs Inor and I have done a lot of game birds over the years. It turned out to be much faster than I thought it would be. The first 3 birds took about an hour while we figured out a process. After that, the next 29 took about two hours.

    Having the 2 cones to whack them speed the process up considerably. While one bird was bleeding out, we could be loading the next and opening up it's neck. The turkey fryer worked perfectly for scalding them. The plucker...

    The Yardbird plucker worked well for one bird at a time. It is sold as being able to do 2 at a time, but with 2 it could barely get spinning. It did a very nice job of getting the feathers out. But I did have to take the top off and clean it out every 3-4 birds or the feathers would just jam up the motor. That was not a big deal, taking only about 2 minutes to clean, as long as I remembered to do it. It was WAY easier to use the plucker than doing them by hand! It was an absolute "must have" and a huge time saver for doing more than a few birds at a time.

    One thing I will mention if you have never cleaned several birds at a time, you cannot have too many hoses or too much water! We had 3 hoses going, one for the plucker, another for cleaning the plucker and the whack-o-matic and one at the cutting table. It meant, by the time we were done, the entire cleaning area was one big mud pit, but always having a hose handy also saved a ton of time!

    Beyond that, we motored right through them and were done by about 10 AM. The birds are now in the refrigerator over night to cool, then tomorrow we will shrink wrap them and toss them in the freezer. Mrs Inor is also going to fry up the giblets for the dogs tomorrow. So they will all be very happy. They were surprisingly good about staying away from the blood buckets and the gut buckets too.

    The only thing I am going to do different when I order the next batch for this fall is to pay the extra 20 cents per bird to get all hens. The roosters were a pain in the ass to catch and once they were cleaned, they did not have as much meat as the hens.

    I am calling this effort a raging 100% SUCCESS!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inor View Post
    A neighbor brought some chickens over this morning and we ended up processing a total of 32 of their birds and ours. Between all of us, none had experience processing chickens, but Mrs Inor and I have done a lot of game birds over the years. It turned out to be much faster than I thought it would be. The first 3 birds took about an hour while we figured out a process. After that, the next 29 took about two hours.

    Having the 2 cones to whack them speed the process up considerably. While one bird was bleeding out, we could be loading the next and opening up it's neck. The turkey fryer worked perfectly for scalding them. The plucker...

    The Yardbird plucker worked well for one bird at a time. It is sold as being able to do 2 at a time, but with 2 it could barely get spinning. It did a very nice job of getting the feathers out. But I did have to take the top off and clean it out every 3-4 birds or the feathers would just jam up the motor. That was not a big deal, taking only about 2 minutes to clean, as long as I remembered to do it. It was WAY easier to use the plucker than doing them by hand! It was an absolute "must have" and a huge time saver for doing more than a few birds at a time.

    One thing I will mention if you have never cleaned several birds at a time, you cannot have too many hoses or too much water! We had 3 hoses going, one for the plucker, another for cleaning the plucker and the whack-o-matic and one at the cutting table. It meant, by the time we were done, the entire cleaning area was one big mud pit, but always having a hose handy also saved a ton of time!

    Beyond that, we motored right through them and were done by about 10 AM. The birds are now in the refrigerator over night to cool, then tomorrow we will shrink wrap them and toss them in the freezer. Mrs Inor is also going to fry up the giblets for the dogs tomorrow. So they will all be very happy. They were surprisingly good about staying away from the blood buckets and the gut buckets too.

    The only thing I am going to do different when I order the next batch for this fall is to pay the extra 20 cents per bird to get all hens. The roosters were a pain in the ass to catch and once they were cleaned, they did not have as much meat as the hens.

    I am calling this effort a raging 100% SUCCESS!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inor View Post
    A neighbor brought some chickens over this morning and we ended up processing a total of 32 of their birds and ours. Between all of us, none had experience processing chickens, but Mrs Inor and I have done a lot of game birds over the years. It turned out to be much faster than I thought it would be. The first 3 birds took about an hour while we figured out a process. After that, the next 29 took about two hours.

    Having the 2 cones to whack them speed the process up considerably. While one bird was bleeding out, we could be loading the next and opening up it's neck. The turkey fryer worked perfectly for scalding them. The plucker...

    The Yardbird plucker worked well for one bird at a time. It is sold as being able to do 2 at a time, but with 2 it could barely get spinning. It did a very nice job of getting the feathers out. But I did have to take the top off and clean it out every 3-4 birds or the feathers would just jam up the motor. That was not a big deal, taking only about 2 minutes to clean, as long as I remembered to do it. It was WAY easier to use the plucker than doing them by hand! It was an absolute "must have" and a huge time saver for doing more than a few birds at a time.

    One thing I will mention if you have never cleaned several birds at a time, you cannot have too many hoses or too much water! We had 3 hoses going, one for the plucker, another for cleaning the plucker and the whack-o-matic and one at the cutting table. It meant, by the time we were done, the entire cleaning area was one big mud pit, but always having a hose handy also saved a ton of time!

    Beyond that, we motored right through them and were done by about 10 AM. The birds are now in the refrigerator over night to cool, then tomorrow we will shrink wrap them and toss them in the freezer. Mrs Inor is also going to fry up the giblets for the dogs tomorrow. So they will all be very happy. They were surprisingly good about staying away from the blood buckets and the gut buckets too.

    The only thing I am going to do different when I order the next batch for this fall is to pay the extra 20 cents per bird to get all hens. The roosters were a pain in the ass to catch and once they were cleaned, they did not have as much meat as the hens.

    I am calling this effort a raging 100% SUCCESS!!!!!
    When I was growing up parents raised chickens, for eggs. Was real young then but don't remember butchering any?

    Done lots of birds from hunting: partridges, turkeys, ducks, geese......but only 1 to a few at a time.

    Obviously all ready dead. Plucking does sort of suck. One time I started on a turkey, and had some sort of mites crawling up my forearms.....into the boiling water.

    Inor, seems like You did your homework and had the proper tools at hand, and now have the system/method down. Good planning and work!

    But where are the pictures....?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Trapper View Post
    When I was growing up parents raised chickens, for eggs. Was real young then but don't remember butchering any?

    Done lots of birds from hunting: partridges, turkeys, ducks, geese......but only 1 to a few at a time.

    Obviously all ready dead. Plucking does sort of suck. One time I started on a turkey, and had some sort of mites crawling up my forearms.....into the boiling water.

    Inor, seems like You did your homework and had the proper tools at hand, and now have the system/method down. Good planning and work!

    But where are the pictures....?
    I was busy getting the job done! I didn't have time to take pictures!

    (I'll snap a couple tomorrow when we have the pile ready to go into the freezer.)
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    Had a small log . . . 2 12 or 16 penny nails about an inch apart . . . hatchet stuck in the end

    Handfull of shucked corn . . . "Here chick, chick, chick . . . "

    While they're busy with the corn . . . slip around behind em . . . grab one . . .

    Hold both legs with the head hanging down . . . mosey over to earlier mentioned log

    Stretch neck . . . head between the nails . . . hatchet . . . "whack" . . . toss the chicken to my left out into the clover weed patch.

    Up to the house . . . Mom had the water boiling . . . grab the big bucket with two handles . . .

    Chicken is done flopping by now . . . grab it . . . dunk it . . . pick it . . . burn the hairs off it . . .

    Present it to Mom

    We had chicken in about an hour or so.

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    wonder if people would realize how much simpler the process would be if they didn't give a damn about plucking them.... we can rip through a pheasant in under a minute... without any tools.. even quicker with garden snips.. snip wings.. remove.. snip legs.. remove, tear a hole in breast skin with fingers... rip open.. grab between breast and neck with both hands.. pull breast away entirely... pull off thighs.... repeat...
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