Ah yes. Its graduation day here in Spokane WA for the last 20 of the year. We do 100+ every year and this day is almost as good as getting your last child potty trained. How many of these stinky bundles of deliciousness do you do?
by PalouseHillsBees
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Family of 5 here an we do 30 twice a year. 🙂 we should do more but 30 at a time is all I care to do lol
We always call it going to freezer camp! Great job
Any tips for beginners? I plan on doing this in about 3-5 years. Tips in building the tractor or taking care of the chickens and etc? I am jealous!
How do you keep from getting attached?
I get a little attached to the turkeys but by the time cornish are ready, they just start to get a little obnoxious. I don’t get attached to cornish cross at all as they get older.
We do about 25 at a time due to storage. We don’t get attached as Cornish Crosses aren’t around long enough. We are planning on raising different meat birds as the Cornish are sort of Frankenstein birds
We do a dozen each year. We don’t have access to a plucker or anything so a dozen is pretty much the limit of our ability to handle on slaughter day.
30 last year, 60 this year!
If dealing with that waterer is annoying, consider getting a Plasson Broiler Drinker and feed it from a 5 gallon bucket with a 1/4″ hole drilled near the bottom. Well worth the cost for not having to clean out waterers anymore. we have a similar setup to this guy: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6qnCMhatSI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6qnCMhatSI)
I built a whizbang plucker and it’s amazing – plucks 3 birds at a time in about 30 seconds
I also found this video helpful – “Chicken Evisceration Tutorial (30 second method):
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qdz-yHNJ5o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qdz-yHNJ5o)
The Far Side Gary Larson cartoon [https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ny6dp7/tutored_eh/](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ny6dp7/tutored_eh/)
We do 20 at a time 2x a year