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As you know we are raising our own chickens. We have been actively involved with the entire process from beginning to end. "End" only because we lost many of our first batch of chickens to a predator. All circles of life contain an "end" and in order to take another step in sustainability we needed to learn how to slaughter, de-feather and preserve the chickens for future use. Lucky for us we have some great like-minded friends to learn along side each other. As weird as it sounds we had our own chicken slaughtering party on Sunday afternoon. The kids all watched the process right up until the blood started flowing, they lasted about 3 minutes after that...in the words of Noah "I'm not going to eat chicken like that!"
So, you gotta catch the chicken first. Jon did that, the next step is to put the chicken head first into the "slaughtering cone"
Assuming you've made it safely pass the protesters!
Now the slaughtering cone...yeah, it's head is getting cut off right now. yuck!
Next the bird goes into scalding hot water as shown above...
Next is the defeathering and cutting off of the legs, cleaning out the insides etc. All in all the process wasn't to bad to watch, I thought it would have been more gross. It was a GREAT learning experience. Dusty, Jon, Jerry & Tyler did four chickens total on Sunday. WAY TO GO GUYS!!!
As you know we are raising our own chickens. We have been actively involved with the entire process from beginning to end. "End" only because we lost many of our first batch of chickens to a predator. All circles of life contain an "end" and in order to take another step in sustainability we needed to learn how to slaughter, de-feather and preserve the chickens for future use. Lucky for us we have some great like-minded friends to learn along side each other. As weird as it sounds we had our own chicken slaughtering party on Sunday afternoon. The kids all watched the process right up until the blood started flowing, they lasted about 3 minutes after that...in the words of Noah "I'm not going to eat chicken like that!"
So, you gotta catch the chicken first. Jon did that, the next step is to put the chicken head first into the "slaughtering cone"
Assuming you've made it safely pass the protesters!
Now the slaughtering cone...yeah, it's head is getting cut off right now. yuck!
Next the bird goes into scalding hot water as shown above...
Next is the defeathering and cutting off of the legs, cleaning out the insides etc. All in all the process wasn't to bad to watch, I thought it would have been more gross. It was a GREAT learning experience. Dusty, Jon, Jerry & Tyler did four chickens total on Sunday. WAY TO GO GUYS!!!
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Amanda? Amanda? Can you hear me?Amanda? Move back and give her some space...I don't think she can hear us, but she's breathing...pale, but breathing. Let's put her feet up to get more blood to her head...but don't say blood outloud again, it might stress her out...WHEW...did you see her just go down like a lead balloon? Crazy!
you guys are hard core!
Amanda~
You refused to come so we brought the party to you!! :) Are you slowly recovering? he,he
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