Generations…..
This picture was taken on Saturday at Willa’s first birthday party.
But then who said we ever did anything “typical”. J
So you’ve heard about the many broilers we’ve raised and sold this fall. We still have one more batch of a hundred to process the first of December, but here are some pictures from one morning we processed earlier this month:
Scarf weather.
Waiting on the scald water to heat.
Sorry y’all, I couldn’t resist.
Joel F. and Gibbie getting ready to….
….build a fire for us. We’ve found that the smoke helps mask other smells.
It’s tradition to save the runt for last. Scrawny ain’t he (or she, pardon me).
Daddy worked on running water lines that morning.
LOL!
Ethan and Joel take out one of the turkeys from the cage they put it in the night before. He was the grand finale for the day.
Gabriel’s been faithful in raising his three turkeys as an experiment for larger operations later on. As you’ve seen in previous posts, the turkeys act more like pets and Gabriel has loved raising them. In the above pictures he was telling it good-bye. It wasn’t a tearful or sorrowful good-bye, just very matter of fact. Everyone kept telling us that we would never get to taste the meat from these turkey’s because they were such pets. But Gabriel always knew why he was raising them and just had fun while doing it. He named them “Happy”, “Thanks” & “Giving”. LOL!
It was too big to put in the killin’ cones, so they put it in a feed sack.
The rigged up contraption.
Getting it out of the sack after it was dead.
Gabriel was so proud to provide food for the table!
The boys wanted to gather the wing feathers before it was put in the plucker.
Our new processing facility.
Watching Noah as he’s struggling…
…..to scald the monster. It weighed probably 30lbs dressed! Yep, next time we raise some we won’t let them get that big.
We’d never tried a turkey in our plucker before. It needed a little help every once in a while, but it was better than hand plucking!
No comment.
The “Chicken Crew”. Grace conveniently decided she had lots of pies she needed to make that morning plus lotsa housework. So she was waaaayyyy too busy to help disassemble chickens. J
That things in our freezer now.
Sorry for not being able to post much recently y’all. I could give you all a mile long list of what’s been occupying my time otherwise, but if I had that much time then you’d be seeing more posts. J Life’s just been extremely busy recently with deadlines on the house, etc… So don’t assume that just because there aren’t posts that we’re not doing much. Yep, my hard drive is loaded with tons of pictures to share with y’all. Someday…..when I’m sitting on the porch drinking lemonade and watching sunsets.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving y’all! Treasure your time spent with loved ones………
Looks like ya’ll had fun! Miss you!!!