Fascinating video (to me) — Processing and butchering chicken

[ssandy_561]

So you could say you were little pluckers. 😆

[Troutman]

I wanna see the beheadings ....

[surfdog]

As a bona fide "city boy" I found that pretty fascinating.
It's one of those things that some of us never really get to see...unless we seek it out. Thanks for sharing.

[Skip]

Memories of times past.

[RonB]

My uncle didn't have those cones or a plucker, unless you count us kids...

[Old Glory]

Cool to see how it is done.

[ComfortablyNumb]

I have all the Featherman equipment to process birds. Here's a demonstration of how it works:

Basically the same. Difference is the auto dunker on the scalding tank.

[mountainsmoker]

Yep, remember my mom hanging them from a closthline 5 at a time a time and going down the line grabbing there heads and cutting it off. Letting them bleed out then dump them in hot water and pulling all the feathers out. Then doing another 5. This was back in the 50's and I was a kid and I remember it stunk.

[Greygoose]

Have done turkeys with my neighbor
No cones, bungee around the legs and hold on ,,,to the wings
strong Mf’ers
then to the plucker and the gut and into a Bath and in to a bag
taker ‘er home

[JoeSousa]

Cool video. I remember butchering chickens as a kid. Just had a stump and a hatchet. Plucking was my least favorite part. Wet feathers everywhere.

We have some chicken coops at our house we moved into a year ago. At some point we were planning on getting some laying hens but I might just have to get a couple meat birds as well.

[JimLinebarger]

Very interesting.

[jhapka]

The cones sure beat the plank of wood with two nails for the neck and hatchet my grandpa had. That plucker machine is extremely effective.

[scottranda]

Here’s the video

https://youtu.be/FzCMgmyBeZI