BUTCHER DAY!

Another successful butcher day!

Tim and I ordered this sun shade. He got it installed the day before butchering. Little by little we are getting our butcher station setup.
Having it shaded is especially nice on these hot days.

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We tried using the wagon to move the 
meat birds in.

They actually were jumping out. 

Megan carried the meat birds to the 
butchering stand.

Tim butchered them and scalded them.

I ran the plucker and fine tuned all the feathers.

Aaron, Skylar

and Kaitlin ran the gutting table.

Megan helped rinse them and put them in the coolers.

This system this time went smoothly.

We ended up butchering 52 meat birds and 7 roosters.

Not a bad day!

The next day Tim and I bagged and weighed
 all the chicken.

We got some sold and still have some to sell.

We got the water going to get hot. Once we bag the meat, we place them in the pot of water and it's like shrink wrap. We will weigh them and label them. Then place them in the cooler.

Keeping the chicken iced down. We will add them to the freezer but not all at once.