Thursday, April 9, 2009
Sun is finally going to make a return but with continued below normal temperatures.....can't have it all I suppose. Continuing to plant tomatoes in the greenhouses as beds of lettuce go to seed. Got the chicken's summer compound fenced yesterday and the meat ducks arrive in about 2 weeks. Yes I am doing ducks for eating this year. Have to order up my chickens next. A friend is loning me his motorized plucker, will make things alot easier and cleaner. I will keep you posted. Thinking we will do ducks and chickens this year and not do Turkeys. Had a little snow last night and the damn deer are already coming into the yard and eating everything. Having trouble with the electric fence, venison sausage anyone? Well gotta start the day.
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Motorized plucker? That sounds obscene.
ReplyDeleteJen advises butchering and plucking take place far from living hens and ducks as the sights, sounds and smells of butchering and plucking tends to stress surving poultry. Stressed poultry tends to yield fewer/smaller eggs and gamy tasting meat.
Bill N.
Hmm that's interesting have not heard that except for pigs. As for the plucker it's not that bad. It looks like a top loading washing machine with a bunch of rubber fingers and it spins. You put the bird in and all the feathers are plucked in about 30 seconds. As for the slaughtering all the ducks and meat chickens will be done all at once with the laying hens penned far away on the other side of the greenhouse.
ReplyDeleteJust tell the layers the duck are going for a "swim"!
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