Post by houstonwecopy on Apr 18, 2010 17:32:17 GMT -5
I am not sure whether this should be in the butchering section or here.
Since I had to butcher one of my broilers yesterday I got Mary Margaret to take some pictures for me. Besides, it sprang her from a 7 year olds birthday party next door that she took the grandbaby to
I watched a you tube video on killing cones and the thing that I learned was that by not cutting the esophagus and trachea, just cutting the arteries on each side, the chicken stays calm and doesn't panic as it bleed out. Just as the heart stops the chicken spasms but that is it. I used a small scalple because the feathers are tough on a larger knife and I haven't found one yet that does a quick enough job.
I got my killing cone pattern from Herrick Kimballs whizbang chicken plucker book. I made it out of aluminum flashing I got as scrap from a roofing contractor. I put it together with pop rivets. I plan to mount several on a board when I do the whole group of chickens and put a piece of slanted guttering on the board to route the blood into a bucket.
I have my water just barely at 150 degrees F. I dunk the bird completely under and swish around for about 15 seconds and then test pull a long wing feather. Repeat and test until the feather comes out effortlessly.
Now pluck.
I used a 4 inch pvc endcap and a piece of 3/8 all thread and a couple of nuts and lock washers. I used trimmed down 3 inch rubber bungees for the fingers as someone else on the forum here suggested. Works great.
I put a garbage bag on a wire trash can frame and tilted it agains an old mailbox and it cought almost all of the feathers. It takes less than a minute to pluck. This is only the 6th chicken I have plucked. I figure once you figure out the best pattern it should take about 30 seconds to pluck one.
I took pictures of the cleaning but the tutorial on the whizbang chicken plucker site is so very good that I figured I would just let people look at that. Here is the finished chicken. Mind he is not as big as the others and he is only 5 weeks and 5 days old.
Hope this helps. Any suggestions anybody has I am all for.
Leslie
Since I had to butcher one of my broilers yesterday I got Mary Margaret to take some pictures for me. Besides, it sprang her from a 7 year olds birthday party next door that she took the grandbaby to
I watched a you tube video on killing cones and the thing that I learned was that by not cutting the esophagus and trachea, just cutting the arteries on each side, the chicken stays calm and doesn't panic as it bleed out. Just as the heart stops the chicken spasms but that is it. I used a small scalple because the feathers are tough on a larger knife and I haven't found one yet that does a quick enough job.
I got my killing cone pattern from Herrick Kimballs whizbang chicken plucker book. I made it out of aluminum flashing I got as scrap from a roofing contractor. I put it together with pop rivets. I plan to mount several on a board when I do the whole group of chickens and put a piece of slanted guttering on the board to route the blood into a bucket.
I have my water just barely at 150 degrees F. I dunk the bird completely under and swish around for about 15 seconds and then test pull a long wing feather. Repeat and test until the feather comes out effortlessly.
Now pluck.
I used a 4 inch pvc endcap and a piece of 3/8 all thread and a couple of nuts and lock washers. I used trimmed down 3 inch rubber bungees for the fingers as someone else on the forum here suggested. Works great.
I put a garbage bag on a wire trash can frame and tilted it agains an old mailbox and it cought almost all of the feathers. It takes less than a minute to pluck. This is only the 6th chicken I have plucked. I figure once you figure out the best pattern it should take about 30 seconds to pluck one.
I took pictures of the cleaning but the tutorial on the whizbang chicken plucker site is so very good that I figured I would just let people look at that. Here is the finished chicken. Mind he is not as big as the others and he is only 5 weeks and 5 days old.
Hope this helps. Any suggestions anybody has I am all for.
Leslie