Chicken, the other white meat

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milani74

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Helped a friend today slaughter 2 dozen chickens that he was raising. Although I dont really like the smell of chickens, it was cool to show where chicken comes from; besides the grocery store. The Tram is one that I got recently. Worked awesome.

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EWWW!! YUCKY HOW DARE YOU SHOW THIS CARNAG....











Oh wait....chicken is delicious. :)

Good on ya for showing the wee ones where meat comes from....and how to prepare it.

Sweet pics too!! Nothing like home grown, cleaned, and cooked!
 
more fun to shoot em with a shotgun. but , wait. thats not the point . gotta save the meat. yum. wheres the beer ????:D
 
When I was still in school and FFA we did a program for elementary school kids about food coming from the farm. A lot of them though it just came from the grocery, they had no idea.
 
So glad to see the machette. Thought for a minute we were gonna have to give you a name like "chicken choker". You would not want to tell your friends that you helped choke 12 chickens in a single day hehe
 
Wow those photos bring back memories. When I was a kid my parents had a bunch of chickens, turkeys, ducks, etc. and I can remember slaughtering time. My father would usually use either a machete or a small hatchet. My job was to hold them while he did the chopping. Take it from me, do not let go of the chicken after the deed is done unless you want to fully understand the saying "running around like a chicken with its head cut off". I did it ONE time and it scared the living hell out of me!
 
man, you guys chop off the heads? wicked..

We slit their throats and fold their wings into the legs.

Now that GregFL mentioned it, I want to see a headless chicken running around!
 
t-k-c said:
Looks like the dog enjoyed the event! :D
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Ha, I noticed that one too :thumbup:. Back home I remember single handedly slaughtering ducks with a hatchet. The ducks were some sort of in-between race between geese and ducks (3-4,5 kg before the deed) and these were tough mofo's. Big strong wings, thick necks and yes, after chopping their heads of, one needed to hold hem for a couple of minutes or they'd just flapped away (some 50 metres :eek:). I always found it strange that when eventually they were in place on the block, they didn't move anymore..:confused:

Thanks,

D-R
 
Wow, that brings back memories. My grandparents used to raise chicken, turkeys, rabbits and even had goats at one time.

And there was one year, I was 4 or 5, when my Grandpa rose chicken for several work mates and neighbours, so on slaughter day, 80 chicken were slaughtered.

My aunt came to help and some other women. My mother cooked for all the helpers (she couldn't stand slaughtering), the other women were in the yard plucking and gutting the chicken I took from the back of the garden to them.

Carrying two at a time, and helping my granddad holding them, after he cut their heads off. Or catching them if I my grip was not good enough. Didn't scare me though. My granddad had warned me they might do this.

I miss my granddad ...
 
Ya just gotta love seeing a blade in it's natural environment, all greasy with fats and blood, doing exactly what it was made to do.

Damn, it's a beautiful thing.:D
 
I lopped the head off of a chicken down at my granddad's house in Kentucky when I was a kid and he thought I was crazy! He picked one up and wrung it's neck. I don't know how in the hell you spell "wring it's neck" in the past tense, but he did it! :D

He just showed me how to pick them up and give them a spin or send a whip-wave through their body and break their neck, just a motion like cracking a whip.

I prefer beheading, for the record. :D
 
Don Rearic said:
I lopped the head off of a chicken down at my granddad's house in Kentucky when I was a kid and he thought I was crazy! He picked one up and wrung it's neck. I don't know how in the hell you spell "wring it's neck" in the past tense, but he did it! :D

He just showed me how to pick them up and give them a spin or send a whip-wave through their body and break their neck, just a motion like cracking a whip.

I prefer beheading, for the record. :D
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I believe the term is "ringded" I ringded it's neck.:D

We always just bit the head off and swollowed it.
 
Do they really run around for a minute after you chop the head off? LOL
 
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