Culling the flock

Agree on all points ^. I considered back honing it on a stone or hardwood to straighten the burrs. Which would only take seconds. It should work well on a buck. The steel maybe 440A but I couldn't know without metallurgical testing. Which would destroy that blade. I would think processing 3-4 chickens might be about the same as field dressing a buck. Then one would have time to touch it up back at camp. Then use it to skin & quarter him out and haul the quarters to cold storage or home. Now you've got some breathing room. DM
 
I straightened the burrs out on a SiC stone, using back honing. It took seconds. A very easy maintenance approach. DM
 
I'm at it again. 2 old hens on this round. The blade on this 317 did one. Then needed more touching up during chicken #5. Maybe 1 minute tuning on a fine India stone had it cutting the way I like. Plus, I had a 2nd blade I could have used. Something like 10 chickens I could have processed with this model before needing to tune both blades. The shape and grind worked fine. I would enjoy using it on a buck.
I have 3 more played out layers to do. I'll give you the run down on those. Then we'll rotate some young layers into their pen after a sanitize treatment. DM
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Ok, I let it go for a while. Now I'm asking for an experienced poultry person to step up and offer a clue as why this chicken was not a good layer.? A hint is in the photo. DM
 
David, thanks very much for taking the time to take pictures and explain the process. I always enjoy your thinning post. I have a very rough 317 from a second had shop. I like the way it feels in the hand.Hawk
 
Hawk, I'm glad to see you on here. As I've been wondering if you were getting rain or a tornado...
We're ok-- my wife buried an ax at our west gate. DM
 
David Martin said:
Hawk, I'm glad to see you on here. As I've been wondering if you were getting rain or a tornado...
We're ok-- my wife buried an ax at our west gate. DM
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Rain no tornadoes in my town but they had one a week or so not to far west on Grand Saline. Hoe your folks were ok. My Buck I got second hand has some blades that are way short. Can’t find new ones for it. Hawk
 
Ok, I processed the last 3 this morning. I used the clip blade.
I really like the looks of a drop point blade. But to be honest the clip blade has many good uses. I prefer it for birds & Fish. It also is better at digging out splinters and cleaning under my finger nails. If I were just cutting up my lunch apple with a slice of summer sausage. A drop point would work fine. So, on the last 3 I used that blade. It worked fine, especially at separating the joints and raking out the intestines. DM
 
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it's the size of the pics. i struggled with this until Spark told me to crop or compress pics and they'd load. pics have to be under 1mb. my phone won't take pics this small no matter how I set the camera up on it.

anything over that size wont load. it will show it loaded sort of but a grey screen least on mobile version of site. pic won't be visible. old software would let 1.3mb and sometimes bigger load. this software upgrade will not.

I am using mobile so I went to playstore and got an app to compress pics. if youre on a desktop and have a photo editing software you can cut pics size down that way by cropping maybe compressing if your software will do that.

last resort is to use photo hosting site that will compress and crop to work with software automatically. well technically just merge the link to this software so the pic shows up.
 
That is the manner I have been doing it. It shows it was loaded and 100%. But not posting. I'll try again. DM
 
I have reduced the size several times and it still won't post. Even after these upgrades I did post a photo over in the ax forum with no problems, the 1st try. But not working here.
The snafus take some time to work out. DM
 
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