Chicken in the freezer

Saturday was a busy day at the farm. We had 11 chickens to butcher. The kids helped us get set up,

But some of them are too small to help, and they spent most of the morning in the Redneck playpen.

How longest part of the set up was waiting for the water to get up to temperature. Once everything was ready, then our intrepid chicken wranglers had to make their way past the guardian geese to grab the chickens off the pasture.

Mission. Success!

Of course, now that the gate was open, the guardian geese decided to make their way out to see what was going on.

So we just moved them over into the other half of the pasture for the rest of the day.

We tried to keep the process asefficient as possible, but the kids don’t really have that long of an attention span, and errands still needed to be run, the babies still needed to be fed.

But at one point during the morning, Kathleen looked up from the chicken. She was plucking to Ryan who was getting another one and said, “it’s really nice to get to see you on a Saturday, and do stuff together.”

As it turns out, is the first Saturday we’ve actually spent together and a month or more. So that was romantic.

And just like that, 21 chickens in the freezer between Friday and Saturday. All But two of them are sold. One is a rooster that we called to be a stew chicken, and the other one is for our personal consumption.

We have a few critiques, we will do it a little differently next time, but not bad for a first run of meat birds.