Sunday, May 17, 2009

Chicken Slaughter

The chickens were 6 weeks old yesterday, and the males are ready for the freezer. So we decided to start with six of the 16 and see how it went. It was traumatic for all, but more traumatic for the chickens. Some PG pictures are posted, and other PG-13 pictures are behind links if you're brave.

This is a picture of the set-up. The pallet on the ground is where we dispatched it head, then we stuck them in the orange cone to bleed out. The table was were we skinned and gutted them, putting the remains in the blue bucket and the finished product in the big silver can with ice.


This is the finished product.


If you would like to see what happened inbetween, the PG-13 pictures are behind the links.
here
and here

And if you would like to see the pictures that would make small children cry, the whole album is behind this link.
don't say I didn't warn you

2 comments:

  1. Well, Rachel says that if she comes to see you you can't be "doing chickens!" She hasn't seen any of the pictures yet. Doing this on the new laptop - it's pretty neat but with all the memory and big hard drive it doesn't seem that much different than my dinosaur - sorry I missed your call yesterday but at least you got a hold of Steven. Have a great week!

    Love &Hugs
    Dad

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  2. Rachel's sentiment is echoed from every single person we know.

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