When people think of spring break they think of beaches, mountains, lakes, pools, or a theme park. My husband thinks of working--in the way of processing chickens! I am such a lucky girl let me tell you. To give him credit, it is about the only time that the two of us are off of work where we can work together to get things done. So, our plan was to knock out the processing of the chickens on Monday and then enjoy the rest of the week--that didn't happen at all!
Because we are having to store so much meat, we decided to build a room around a walk in freezer where we could process everything and keep it in one place. Well, needless to say, the freezer nor the room was up and running by Monday. Thank goodness because I forgot to order a very important part of our processing--the bag clips! I was saved by the freezer not working! Maybe we would be able to start on Tuesday-- Not so much! This is what I did on Tuesday while we were waiting for a part on our freezer to come in:
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| Me drilling through to put plumbing together. |
So Wednesday finally rolled around and we were ready to start.
The killing cones were in place and the "whizbang chicken plucker" was ready to go. It was just David and I to do every step. We were able to process and bag the first 100 chickens on Wednesday--it only took us 8 1/2 hours. It seemed like FOREVER!.
Then Thursday came and so did the help-our neighbors stopped by to help us catch and clean chickens, while my father in law helped process and bag. Thank goodness for them because we were able to do a little over 100 chickens in 4 hours!
So now we have plenty of whole chickens for sale. Please email us to let us know if you would like some. We will also be selling them at the local farmers markets. Can't wait to see you there!
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