Meat Birds

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Meat Birds

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

So... details, please!

Cut off their heads? Was there lots of blood? Did the kids help? Did you pull out their insides? What did you make with them? Could you seriously taste the difference from store-bought chicken?

arbilad · Head Chef

Wringing their necks works well. Or the axe and the chopping block.
I've been thinking about picking up some meat birds and canning them once they're processed.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

I detailed the process, with pictures even, on my blog. The post is entitled, Blood and Guts.

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

Did you do all that cutting yourself? I'm impressed.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Yeah, I did. And dilbert is very happy about that. :)

coolcucumbers · Senior Member

I'm going to have to check that out bok!

DoubleD · Senior Member

I loved your blog.

Didn't se a pic of your coop though... what do you have a chicken tractor?

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

DoubleD, I have a moveable pen, yes. It's just a bottomless pen, 4x8 wide/long, and 2 feet tall. Half of it is covered, and half is chicken wire. At that size, I can rather easily pull it to a new location daily.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

All I saw on the blog was pics swimming...

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Here's a direct link, Coco.

http://boks-funnyfarm.blogspot.com/2008/07/blood-and-guts.html

I haven't read it, myself. I can barely bring myself to get out of bed due to the nausea these days. I'm so not reading about chicken butchering right now. Everyone else can feel free to enjoy it, though.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Yeah, coco... there's a thing called "scrolling down". It's a good skill to have.

Also in the right sidebar is an archive list, and you can link to the chicken posts from there.

Or, you can search for the word "chicken" and it should bring up all posts I've tagged with that word.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Wow. That... was.... really something else. I think I'm officially afraid of you now.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Stalking you and leaving ammo on your doorstep doesn't phase you but cutting the head off a chicken askeers ya? You, my dear, are an enigma.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Dude. You didn't cut off the head. You slit its little throat, for crying out loud! It was alive and had a soul and you cut its neck with a knife, dude. Let it bleed there and die. Who really knows what you're capable of now?

Xanth · Senior Member

It's amazing how hunger motivates a person. ;)

I'd be more afraid if she recorded the chicken running around the yard with it's head cut off, as humorous as that would be.

Besides is there really a "right" way to slaughter an animal?

-- Edited by Xanth at 12:05, 2008-07-08

dilbert · Senior Member

Believe me--that was considered.

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

I shouldn't

but I am going to...

arbilad · Head Chef

Have you slaughtered a chicken lately, Mirk?

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

I have six more birds to kill - we have six immature cockerels, and a couple of them are starting to crow, which is a big no-no in the middle of town. The cone is too big to hold them so we probably will end up chopping off their heads. I'm not sure the hatchet we have is sharp enough for that task, though...

arbilad · Head Chef

Yeah, people don't like cocks in urban areas. Although two towns in Northern Colorado are going to authorize people in city limits to have chickens.

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

arbilad wrote:

Have you slaughtered a chicken lately, Mirk?

TCFDOBHASPD* can neither confirm or deny the existence of headless chickens.

* The Corporation For Development Of Black Helicopters and Special Projects Division

arbilad · Head Chef

Of course, now that you've told us the name of that division, you'll have to change it.
I sorta view my chickens as part of my food supply, although I'm not sure that they'd survive roving bands of thieves bent on getting food at any cost.

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

Sorta like Delta is now CAG?

Xanth · Senior Member

I saw this chicken plucker and thought of this thread.

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

That is great!

arbilad · Head Chef

Cool, modern technology in action !