Posted on July 12, 2008 by heidi-ed
We also watched several YouTube movies about butchering/plucking/gutting and cutting, just to get a better idea of what we were in for. I found these videos to be particularly helpful:
Video 1 – Takes you from the chicken to the finished product. They use a bantam which is incredibly small and sometimes hard to [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2008 by heidi-ed
Well we did it. Today we harvested our excess cockerels. Last night we isolated the ones we decided were ready to eat (which was all except the one we’ll keep to rooster). DH made a little holding pen out of a wood pallet and some fencing. Then we just put excess [...]
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