The following essays are chock-full of information, inspiration, and lots of great pictures......
Backyard Poultry Processing With My 11-year-Old Son
My Whizbang Plucker Story
Frequently Asked Questions About The Whizbang Plucker
Introducing My Deluxe Homemade Chicken Scalder
Talkin’ Bout My Chicken Tractors
Talkin’ Bout My Chicken Tractor (Part 2)
Getting Started With Turkeys
Turkeys in Tractors & Comfrey For Feed
Me And My Turkeys
FREE Chicken Feed
The Next Best Thing To A Whizbang Chicken Plucker
My Chicken Plucker Parts Business
The Best Place to Buy Plucker Fingers
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Click Here to read a selection of my "Deliberate Agrarian" blog writings
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Backyard-Butchered Chickens
Ready For The Freezer
Before You Butcher....
How To Kill, Scald & Pluck Chickens
My Son James Was A Pro at 11-Years Old. If He Can Do it So Can You!
(click the happy face for details)
Here Are The Ten Steps To Butchering A Chicken
- Introduction
- Step 1: Getting Ready To Butcher
- Step 2: Remove The Feet
- Step 3: Remove The Head
- Step 4: Loosen The Crop
- Step 5: Remove The Neck
- Step 6: Remove The Oil Gland
- Step 7: Open Up The Back End
- Step 8: Remove The Viscera
- Step 9: Clean Up & Chill
- Step 10: Cut, Bag, & Freeze
- Making Chicken Stock
Seeing Is Believing: Check Out These YouTube Movies of The Whizbang Chicken Plucker in Action...
Let Me Tell You About My Whizbang Automatic Chicken Plucker
Plucking Chickens is FUN With the Whizbang! (click the photo to learn all about the Whizbang plucker)
The Whizbang Plucker Theme Song
More Than 2,300 People.....
...Are Members of the Yahoo Group, WhizbangChickenPluckers (click the picture to learn more)
Herrick Kimball's Poultry Essays
How To Properly Scald A Chicken
My Never-Fail Technique
(click on the picture for details)
Talkin' About My Chicken Tractor
(Part One)
(click picture to read essay)
Talkin' About My Chicken Tractor
(Part 2)
(click picture to read essay)
Getting Started With Turkeys
(click on picture to read essay)
Me & My Turkeys
I'm The One Wearing The Hat
(click the picture for an "after" picture of the turkey)
The Most Useful Gardening Tool Ever Devised
It's the amazing Planet Whizbang wheel hoe. Click on the picture to go to the Planet Whizbang web site and learn how you can make your own wheel hoe.
Make Your Own Sweet Cider....
It's the most remarkably efficient, surprisingly simple, and downright affordable home cidermaking system ever devised. (click the picture and see for yourself)
Down-to-Earth Inspiration & How-To Information...
Check Out My Other Blogs...
And Here Are Links to Some of My Other Internet How-To Essays....
- Curing Garlic Bulbs
- Harvesting Garlic
- How I Plant My Garlic
- Introducing My Homemade Automatic Compost Sifter
- Introducing My New Apple Crusher
- Make Your Own Whizbang Soap Display Stands
- Making Apple Cider in the Old Days
- Making Great Garlic Powder
- Making Pickled Garlic Scapes
- My Cider Vinegar Experiment: The Remarkable Final Report
- The Fun, Fast Way to Skin a Deer
- When Me & Ed Made Apple Cider
- Yeoman Furniture & My New Wood Box
About Me
3 comments:
hi, i can't find the link for the real first step: killing and plucking
I'm in the same boat. When I was a kid they killed chickens with an axe. I don't get how the heads are still on these guys!
On the right side of this page, near the top, is a picture of my son holding up a couple of chcikens and the words,"Before You Butcher....
How To Kill, Scald & Pluck Chickens"
Click on the picture and read the essay to learn about killing, scalding, & plucking.
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