Every one does their butchering their way. So how ever you do yours is your way and as long as you have chicken in the freezer, no one should say anything except GOOD JOB TYLER!
Dad besides chicken scaulding, would use the heater at the river, deer hunting lunch, to reheat clam chowder and butter beer onions garlic browned burgers. Dogs bratts self serve, cook the day of b4 leaving home. Yes the plucker worth every penny, worst part of freezer camp chicken day.
I bought 5 metal paper towel holders at the dollar sore. I stand the chickens on the holder but end first, then place the poly bag over them. I have metal straw i place in the cavity then gather the bag around it, secure with a zip tie. After the bag shinks, i pull the straw out, tighten the zip tie and submerge the fininshed chickenbin the ice bath. Best of luck!
Get the right size square Tupperware container that the chicken will fit in. Then put the plastic bag in the empty Tupperware container and drape the excess length of the bag over the sides of the container to hold your bag open. Then place your chicken in the bag!
In 1976 when I was 26 my SO and I lived in Blanchard. Ok. He got a job in Oregon and we had to move ASAP. I had about 80 to 90 3 pound chickens in the coop.I had to get them in the freezer in days. I did it, no help, no fancy equipment. I will never raise another bird.
That's the same way my daddy sharpened knives and they were always sharp. Also we always put rock salt on the ice when making ice cream in an old hand churn ice cream maker. He said it helped the ice to freeze to a lower temperature. (I'm 65) lol Salt lowers the freezing point of water, which is why it's used to make ice cream. Pure water freezes at 32°F (0°C), but adding salt to water can lower its freezing point to as low as -16°C (2°F). This allows the ice cream base to thicken and freeze before the ice around it melts. Maybe too much info 😂
I read somewhere that the reason you place your birds in an ice bath after butchering is to give the birds time to go through rigor-mortis. You don't want to package and freeze them if they are still in rigor-mortis because it makes the meat tougher. Also, several channels I watch have made their stands out of PVC pipe. Easy to put together and easy to take apart. Great job!
I think the blue chicken pluck'n easy chair in the garage is what does it for me. I think my parents had that exact same chair in our 1970's living room. 🤔😂
I remember my dad and sister doing this and me chasing headless chickens around the yard. Wow that sounds really sick and demented now. Lol. We didn’t have a chicken plucker. We did it the old fashioned way. lol. Great video again Tyler.
We were “ chicken pluckers” when we were kids helping mom harvest chickens. I am OLD, & I still remember “ the smell” of chickens being dipped in VERY hot water , to loosen the feathers, so to make them easier to remove.
It is a long time since you have complained about the UA-cam comments! Which is astounding and nice. There are a few UA-camrs who complain too much and I wonder, if they are at the right place and enjoy the benefits of this media enough. These stupid comments can unfortunately not be avoided and should not bother you! Just take the helpful stuff and avoid the better knowers. You do a great job and are a real self made man as managing everything on your own! Thanks for the video again!
Farmer Tyler, Raised in VT on Holsteins, Rhode Island Reds and Veal Dairy Farm. Nothing beats putting the chickens into freezer for later. We did it like your method but hand plucked. We pieced out the chickens and bagged and coolered them overnight too. When Sunday came my Grandmother who lived with us, she started the day off with home-made donuts before church. Chores and milking then she would take the chicken and soak it in buttermilk, dredge it and oven roast it. We always had mashed potatoes, greenbeans, squash,gravey and her dinner rolls. Dessert was usually Apple Pie or Yellow Cake with Maple Frosting...That was the just on Sunday. She loved to cook and as a kid, I loved to watch how she put all meals together. Never too many leftovers but she always had an extra place ready for anyone who popped in for a visit. They never left empty handed as I recall...Cheers from Maine.
You were VERY BLESSED. Your Grandmother must have been a 💎JEWEL. I think the buttermilk had a tenderizing effect, plus , it gave the chicken added flavor. ♥️
You never let us down FTR. Very interesting, educational, and informative video. Those are really big chickens. I would use a vertical paper towel holder to rest the chicken on while I bagged the chicken. Pretty inexpensive implement.
Yay food for the winter right there did that many times on my ranch years ago when it was time to harvest ! Good for you Tyler you just do what you’re doing do not listen to the ones that are negative ❤ always love your videos !!!
❤❤VIDEO ❤❤ why would people complain about your way of sharpening your knife 😂 that’s like me complaining about the way someone is digging a ditch and throwing the dirt all over the place and not piling it up in one place😂 so in other words if you’re not back filling 😂you don’t complain about someone else’s work if you don’t have a dog in the fight, ❤❤great information and knowledge ❤❤your sharpening skills are excellent in the end job is done ❤❤
The rock salt in the ice does 2 things. It makes the water even colder and also gets ALL the blood from the carcass. I use the same method with venison or wild boar. It is an ESSENTIAL step that many miss out on.
My first recollection of chicken plucking (I'm 87) was the day the rooster clawed my sister. Mom chased him with a rake and dispatched him while I held his legs and she swung the hatchet. While he was hanging on the clothesline "calming down" she started a kettle of water. She plucked him and cooled him in the icebox (yes, not a refrigerator) until the next morning and them made chicken stew out of him. Yumm yum good! Many times later, we did chickens, usually a few at a time as we did not have freezers back in the day. Same old basic way. We had chicken every Sunday.
Reminds me when we used to do this at home all six kids and then Mom would fry up two big skillets of chicken for supper but it was hard to eat after we've been cleaning them all day. Those were the good old days. Tyler you did a great job I think your chickens look awesome ❤👍
Great job Tyler. I Do Not know why I get a little Emotional when it comes to watching the Chickens being Processed. I guess I am such a Weenie. Again, U do Great Work by yourself. Keep Pushing, U Rock!
I have watched you do this for the last couple of years. Typical of the way you do other things, you learn and improve each time. Good looking chickens!
The title of the Lumnah Acres video is “We should have done this years ago”. The chicken holder is made from pvc pile. Really easy to do and easy to clean and store. (not glued together, so disassemble to sanitize and store).
Build yourself the PVC rack for the bags. It's a life changer when it comes to the bags. I do 400 a year and about 100 of those are whole birds. I built a 10 bird drying rack and helps out tremendously
Necessity is “the mother “ of invention I have heard it said. I am amazed at the “home inventions” I am reading about on here!👍🏼 Having been raised on a farm ( many years ago), I was always amazed at the “ farmer’s inventions my dad made with “ ingenuity”,& his welder, much like Tyler does.👍🏼😊
Great Video Tyler, love seeing food processing the natural way! Nothing like the taste of fresh fried chicken! Thanks for your hard word with the videos, really appreciate it here in Colo.
I remember when I was a young girl (a very long time ago) our neighbors would pay us to come pluck the chickens! When they would say “running around like a chicken with their head cut off” it’s true! Now our neighbor just showed it to us once because he said it is cruel to do. But ya every year we all would pluck chickens, make a little money and were able to enjoy some farm fresh fried chicken!
Would the bag go on easier if it was rolled up, then put the bottom of the bag over the shoulders then roll it down over the bird? The chicken you bagged up is a nice big one! Is always nice to have home grown meat in the freezer.
Tyler, check out Lumnah Acres. They process a lot of chickens and made a really cool stand to put the birds on for packaging. They do an awesome job at this.
Thanks FTR. Another good job started. Now to just get it finished. You can sharpen my knives anytime. I won’t complain. You will though as they need it verrrry badly.
Hey Tyler, I sure do remember those days. My mom always chopped their heads off with an axe on a stump. Then she would turn them loose and they would jump around all the way down the hill where my brother and I would scald them and pluck the feathers out of them. That was the worst part of it all, wet hot feathers really do stink. We have chickens now but my wife and kids don’t want me to kill any of them. We mainly raise cattle and make hay. Really enjoy watching all of your videos here in Davie county, NC.
My three-year-old was admiring your crape myrtle flowers; ours are all done for the year. It's kind of surreal as a suburbanite who sees meat only once it's thoroughly processed and packaged to watch even a censored version of how it's done. I've known for most of my life, but knowing and seeing is very different.
As a city kid, my farm raised mom wanted her kids to know what was involved with getting a chicken ready for the table. So she had us pluck a chicken (that was already dead of course). I will never forget how hard was, I was 5 or 6 at the time and those tiny little pin feather were a challenge - we didn’t get then all and a few ended up on the dinner plate. I remember telling my grandma all about the plucking adventure and she was puzzled as they used to always skin their chickens instead of plucking them ! 😂 Not sure what is involved with doing that, hopefully it’s a lot easier than plucking by hand
Your video brought back memories. My mother and wife took us to a Mennonite farm to get the "dual purpose" chickens. I even asked for a dozen more birds. The farmer dispatched them. However, I was left in the garage to do the evisceration and plucking. I knew even to do the water heating with a Coleman stove. My mother and wife did the other jobs. . . . well, the birds were like sparrows. Imagine that I was one popular fellow who even wanted a dozen more birds. My mother ended up canning them. My wife still remembers the smell.
I think knife sharping is a personal choice my dad taught me when I was kid 43 yrs ago but as an adult he was watching me sharping my knife he said that won't work😂
I think knife sharpening is kind of an art, one that I have never “ mastered”. Tyler, I am going to go back and watch your method more closely , I AM ALREADY OF THE OPINION “ THERE’S NOTHING” TYLER CAN’T DO‼️👍🏼
An old timer here again. Mom used to “ step on the chicken’s head, pull up, & would remove the head. One time she stood on a chicken’s head , pulled up, the chicken got away, running around with the neck skin pulled up over it’s head , making it look like a “ turtle neck” sweater! Dad intervened, shot the chicken, getting it out of it’s misery, needless to say, THAT WAS A “ ONE TIME HAPPENING‼️‼️ Tyler, that’s your “grizzly “ chicken harvesting story of a life time😳. That’s been at least 75 years ago, as I was a young kid watching that ‼️
if you don't want to cut a hole in your shrink bag, you can put a straw into the cavity while you're putting on the zip tie. Dip them, and the bag will shrink with the air evacuating out the straw. Slide the straw out after and tighten the zip tie. Good to go!
Heh it's chicken kill day (harvesting the chickens). What can I say, the family has to eat and Tyler decided to do his own and not rely on the supermarket.
Hey Farmer Tyler no criticism here. Salts a good idea makes ice last longer cause saltwater freezes at a colder temperature so ice stays cooler. As always another good 1 stay blessed
Salt added to water lowers its freezing point. Sprinkling salt on a snowy or icy road turns it into liquid ice water. That is also why old fashioned ice cream churns added salt to the ice. The water gets considerably colder.
Weighing them would be nice so your sweetie knows when she goes to cook it. I did see a video of the stand he made with PVC that allows you to put the bird upside down and slip the bag over it. Looked easy to do and would be worth it.
Not sure if it will help, when we put our birds in the heat shrink bags we have a shop vac with the hose wired to a support post that sucks most of the air out before dunking the bag in the hot water. Just another random idea that made our processing easier. Enjoyed the videos!
I would love to see Mrs. FTR share some chicken recipes. I have never had fresh from the farm chicken. Something that I am seeking to do. More and more local farms are starting to pop up near me, hopefully my search will be easy. Make that chicken rack, you wont regret it. PVC pipe is your friend.
Turkey fryers should come with a stand so you can set the bird butt down in the kettle. If not, buying a replacement shouldn't be that much. A good design for your application might be the Orion Cooker Poultry Stand.
One year we did a whole batch. And the next day we fried about half in the turkey fryer.. we then froze them in meal size portions. Sunday chicken dinner for weeks
The salt should actually lower the ice slurry temperature in your esky. But there are two things going on. Salty water freezes at a lower temperature, but dissolving salt takes energy, lowering the temperature. So if you put to much in it can actually make it refreeze.
Really, think about getting a potable hose, a regular hose has a lot of toxins ... I mean if you're going to all the trouble of raising your chicken why not use clean water to process them? 💕🌞🌵😷
I can't even sharpen a knife and I do carving, ha ha. So whatever way you sharpen your knives, good on you. Also, butchering chooks is never a nice thing to do, but it has tot be done, so you do how you do it and you look as if you have a better way than I do.
The knife sharpening comment was pure perfection.
Every one does their butchering their way. So how ever you do yours is your way and as long as you have chicken in the freezer, no one should say anything except GOOD JOB TYLER!
“Hosewater”, sounds like a perfect name for the smarty pants naysayers.
Dad besides chicken scaulding, would use the heater at the river, deer hunting lunch, to reheat clam chowder and butter beer onions garlic browned burgers. Dogs bratts self serve, cook the day of b4 leaving home. Yes the plucker worth every penny, worst part of freezer camp chicken day.
I bought 5 metal paper towel holders at the dollar sore. I stand the chickens on the holder but end first, then place the poly bag over them. I have metal straw i place in the cavity then gather the bag around it, secure with a zip tie. After the bag shinks, i pull the straw out, tighten the zip tie and submerge the fininshed chickenbin the ice bath. Best of luck!
Get the right size square Tupperware container that the chicken will fit in. Then put the plastic bag in the empty Tupperware container and drape the excess length of the bag over the sides of the container to hold your bag open. Then place your chicken in the bag!
I actually miss the days of chicken harvesting. It was one job we always did together as a family when I was growing up.
Yeah we did too and I remember trying like heck to get that smell off my hands I even used comet!! 😮😅
Here in Arkansas, during duck season we soak and freeze our duck breasts in salt water. Great job on the chickens!
I remember helping my grandmother with this when I was a child.
Very interesting! Thanks!
"Be Safe"
I used to help my momma fix chicken "from scratch" -- I had forgotten how much work it was.
Always your videos are great!
In 1976 when I was 26 my SO and I lived in Blanchard. Ok. He got a job in Oregon and we had to move ASAP. I had about 80 to 90 3 pound chickens in the coop.I had to get them in the freezer in days. I did it, no help, no fancy equipment. I will never raise another bird.
Understood. Lol
Do you still eat chicken❓
That's the same way my daddy sharpened knives and they were always sharp. Also we always put rock salt on the ice when making ice cream in an old hand churn ice cream maker. He said it helped the ice to freeze to a lower temperature. (I'm 65) lol
Salt lowers the freezing point of water, which is why it's used to make ice cream. Pure water freezes at 32°F (0°C), but adding salt to water can lower its freezing point to as low as -16°C (2°F). This allows the ice cream base to thicken and freeze before the ice around it melts.
Maybe too much info 😂
I didn't know why salt is used! Thank you!
I read somewhere that the reason you place your birds in an ice bath after butchering is to give the birds time to go through rigor-mortis. You don't want to package and freeze them if they are still in rigor-mortis because it makes the meat tougher. Also, several channels I watch have made their stands out of PVC pipe. Easy to put together and easy to take apart. Great job!
Thank you for scientific explanation
I think the blue chicken pluck'n easy chair in the garage is what does it for me. I think my parents had that exact same chair in our 1970's living room. 🤔😂
I remember my dad and sister doing this and me chasing headless chickens around the yard. Wow that sounds really sick and demented now. Lol. We didn’t have a chicken plucker. We did it the old fashioned way. lol. Great video again Tyler.
Hand-crafted chicken days?
We were “ chicken pluckers” when we were kids helping mom harvest chickens. I am OLD, & I still remember “ the smell” of chickens being dipped in VERY hot water , to loosen the feathers, so to make them easier to remove.
It is a long time since you have complained about the UA-cam comments! Which is astounding and nice. There are a few UA-camrs who complain too much and I wonder, if they are at the right place and enjoy the benefits of this media enough. These stupid comments can unfortunately not be avoided and should not bother you! Just take the helpful stuff and avoid the better knowers. You do a great job and are a real self made man as managing everything on your own! Thanks for the video again!
Farmer Tyler, Raised in VT on Holsteins, Rhode Island Reds and Veal Dairy Farm. Nothing beats putting the chickens into freezer for later. We did it like your method but hand plucked. We pieced out the chickens and bagged and coolered them overnight too. When Sunday came
my Grandmother who lived with us, she started the day off with home-made donuts before church. Chores and milking then she would take the chicken and soak it in buttermilk, dredge it and oven roast it. We always had mashed potatoes, greenbeans, squash,gravey and her dinner rolls. Dessert was usually Apple Pie or Yellow Cake with Maple Frosting...That was the just on Sunday. She loved to cook and as a kid, I loved to watch how she put all meals together. Never too many leftovers but she always had an extra place ready for anyone who popped in for a visit. They never left empty handed as I recall...Cheers from Maine.
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You were VERY BLESSED. Your Grandmother must have been a 💎JEWEL. I think the buttermilk had a tenderizing effect, plus , it gave the chicken added flavor. ♥️
You never let us down FTR. Very interesting, educational, and informative video. Those are really big chickens. I would use a vertical paper towel holder to rest the chicken on while I bagged the chicken. Pretty inexpensive implement.
Yay food for the winter right there did that many times on my ranch years ago when it was time to harvest ! Good for you Tyler you just do what you’re doing do not listen to the ones that are negative ❤ always love your videos !!!
We did 26 chickens last weekend having a sharp knife is important.we bought one I love your homemade one.
❤❤VIDEO ❤❤ why would people complain about your way of sharpening your knife 😂 that’s like me complaining about the way someone is digging a ditch and throwing the dirt all over the place and not piling it up in one place😂 so in other words if you’re not back filling 😂you don’t complain about someone else’s work if you don’t have a dog in the fight, ❤❤great information and knowledge ❤❤your sharpening skills are excellent in the end job is done ❤❤
GOOD JOB TYLER. Your humane treatment of the birds throughout their life and harvest is commendable. I'll bet they are delicious
When I was a kid there was 4-5 people helping and everyone had there on job,great job Tyler,👍
Could u use a hair dryer to shrink wrap the plastic bags ?
Great video but by far I like the ending. The fry chicken looks great.
Even As a beef farmer, I sure do love chicken also. Haha
Wow beautiful chickens reminds me of our farm chickens we use to raise.great job .
Those chickens look like small turkeys lol great video Tyler!
The rock salt in the ice does 2 things. It makes the water even colder and also gets ALL the blood from the carcass. I use the same method with venison or wild boar. It is an ESSENTIAL step that many miss out on.
My first recollection of chicken plucking (I'm 87) was the day the rooster clawed my sister. Mom chased him with a rake and dispatched him while I held his legs and she swung the hatchet. While he was hanging on the clothesline "calming down" she started a kettle of water. She plucked him and cooled him in the icebox (yes, not a refrigerator) until the next morning and them made chicken stew out of him. Yumm yum good!
Many times later, we did chickens, usually a few at a time as we did not have freezers back in the day. Same old basic way. We had chicken every Sunday.
Reminds me when we used to do this at home all six kids and then Mom would fry up two big skillets of chicken for supper but it was hard to eat after we've been cleaning them all day. Those were the good old days. Tyler you did a great job I think your chickens look awesome ❤👍
So many unappealing jobs on the ranch, but this definitely has a great reward for you at the end.
I just finished doing our broilers a few weeks ago. I'm glad that's over, too. I agree, can't go back to store chicken...
Good video, great looking fried chicken.
I would like to buy this very healthy chicken. 😊
I'm happy just to watch you do it learn from you thank you for the video
Good FTR step by step instructions! Significant work for one man but that is the way FTR rolls! Goos post!
Great job Tyler. I Do Not know why I get a little Emotional when it comes to watching the Chickens being Processed. I guess I am such a Weenie. Again, U do Great Work by yourself. Keep Pushing, U Rock!
I have watched you do this for the last couple of years. Typical of the way you do other things, you learn and improve each time. Good looking chickens!
As the saying goes ,
“ life is a learning process”. 😊
The title of the Lumnah Acres video is “We should have done this years ago”. The chicken holder is made from pvc pile. Really easy to do and easy to clean and store. (not glued together, so disassemble to sanitize and store).
Great job on the chicken plucker!! And hey nothing wrong with a big bird ❤ they look soo good 😊
Build yourself the PVC rack for the bags. It's a life changer when it comes to the bags. I do 400 a year and about 100 of those are whole birds. I built a 10 bird drying rack and helps out tremendously
Necessity is “the mother “ of invention I have heard it said. I am amazed at the “home inventions” I am reading about on here!👍🏼 Having been raised on a farm ( many years ago), I was always amazed at the “ farmer’s inventions my dad made with “ ingenuity”,& his welder, much like Tyler does.👍🏼😊
use a paper towel counter holder to hold your chickens when wrapping your chickens
Yep...a chicken spindle.
Yes that world work dollar tree cheap buy a case .
Great Video Tyler, love seeing food processing the natural way!
Nothing like the taste of fresh fried chicken!
Thanks for your hard word with the videos, really appreciate it here in Colo.
Cheap inexpensive chicken holder is an upright metal paper towel holder that are less then$5.
Thanks for showing what you can. Good luck with the rest.❤️😂🦋
Great job,Tyler!
A lot of good info, good thing your not bothered by yellow jackets when butching,
I remember when I was a young girl (a very long time ago) our neighbors would pay us to come pluck the chickens! When they would say “running around like a chicken with their head cut off” it’s true! Now our neighbor just showed it to us once because he said it is cruel to do. But ya every year we all would pluck chickens, make a little money and were able to enjoy some farm fresh fried chicken!
Would the bag go on easier if it was rolled up, then put the bottom of the bag over the shoulders then roll it down over the bird?
The chicken you bagged up is a nice big one! Is always nice to have home grown meat in the freezer.
Tyler, check out Lumnah Acres. They process a lot of chickens and made a really cool stand to put the birds on for packaging. They do an awesome job at this.
Looked Yummy, Mrs FTR! Great job Tyler!!❤
Thanks FTR. Another good job started. Now to just get it finished. You can sharpen my knives anytime. I won’t complain. You will though as they need it verrrry badly.
Hey Tyler, I sure do remember those days. My mom always chopped their heads off with an axe on a stump. Then she would turn them loose and they would jump around all the way down the hill where my brother and I would scald them and pluck the feathers out of them. That was the worst part of it all, wet hot feathers really do stink. We have chickens now but my wife and kids don’t want me to kill any of them. We mainly raise cattle and make hay. Really enjoy watching all of your videos here in Davie county, NC.
I sent you a comment earlier about the zip net cone and if you look it up under zip net stuffing cone it will show you a cone you could copy.
Good job on getting the chickens ready for the freezer then ready for Sunday dinner have a good day.
Beautiful crepe myrtle
My three-year-old was admiring your crape myrtle flowers; ours are all done for the year.
It's kind of surreal as a suburbanite who sees meat only once it's thoroughly processed and packaged to watch even a censored version of how it's done. I've known for most of my life, but knowing and seeing is very different.
Fried Chicken Sandwiches are as good as any food Ever could be to me!! Great video. 👍 ❤️💪❤️🇺🇲
Those are some healthy looking chickens!
That motor change on the plucker made a big difference!
The salt helps to keep the ice frozen longer...hence the water is colder. 😊
If you get tired of the bags I'd recommend looking into a shrink wrapper. Thats what we use for pork and its pretty quick
I think you have the Right to sharpen your knives any way you want
The best chicken is the 🐓 you raise
As a city kid, my farm raised mom wanted her kids to know what was involved with getting a chicken ready for the table. So she had us pluck a chicken (that was already dead of course). I will never forget how hard was, I was 5 or 6 at the time and those tiny little pin feather were a challenge - we didn’t get then all and a few ended up on the dinner plate. I remember telling my grandma all about the plucking adventure and she was puzzled as they used to always skin their chickens instead of plucking them ! 😂 Not sure what is involved with doing that, hopefully it’s a lot easier than plucking by hand
Thanks Tyler., Enjoy your day 8-6-2024👍🏽👍🏽❤️
Your video brought back memories. My mother and wife took us to a Mennonite farm to get the "dual purpose" chickens. I even asked for a dozen more birds. The farmer dispatched them. However, I was left in the garage to do the evisceration and plucking. I knew even to do the water heating with a Coleman stove. My mother and wife did the other jobs. . . . well, the birds were like sparrows. Imagine that I was one popular fellow who even wanted a dozen more birds. My mother ended up canning them. My wife still remembers the smell.
I think knife sharping is a personal choice my dad taught me when I was kid 43 yrs ago but as an adult he was watching me sharping my knife he said that won't work😂
I think knife sharpening is kind of an art, one that I have never “ mastered”. Tyler, I am going to go back and watch your method more closely , I AM ALREADY OF THE OPINION “ THERE’S NOTHING”
TYLER CAN’T DO‼️👍🏼
This brings back memories. Raised my own birds many times. The only equipment you have that I dont... is a plucker . We plucked by hand.
I I always hated harvesting chickens but I sure love the outcome. We had enough in our freezer for our family for the whole year. It was good
We use a axe and a chop block.
An old timer here again. Mom used to
“ step on the chicken’s head, pull up, & would remove the head. One time she stood on a chicken’s head , pulled up, the chicken got away, running around with the neck skin pulled up over it’s head , making it look like a “ turtle neck” sweater! Dad intervened, shot the chicken, getting it out of it’s misery, needless to say, THAT WAS A “ ONE TIME HAPPENING‼️‼️
Tyler, that’s your “grizzly “ chicken harvesting story of a life time😳. That’s been at least 75 years ago, as I was a young kid watching that ‼️
Tyler the salt is a natural preservative.
Salt water also “ pulls” blood out of the joints.
if you don't want to cut a hole in your shrink bag, you can put a straw into the cavity while you're putting on the zip tie. Dip them, and the bag will shrink with the air evacuating out the straw. Slide the straw out after and tighten the zip tie. Good to go!
Heh it's chicken kill day (harvesting the chickens). What can I say, the family has to eat and Tyler decided to do his own and not rely on the supermarket.
And they will taste way better than supermarket automated processed chickens..I can hardly stand their taste.
Salt is also reducing the temperature of the ice water.
Nice video, Tyler. Seems like a lot of work!
Hey Farmer Tyler no criticism here. Salts a good idea makes ice last longer cause saltwater freezes at a colder temperature so ice stays cooler. As always another good 1 stay blessed
Salt added to water lowers its freezing point. Sprinkling salt on a snowy or icy road turns it into liquid ice water.
That is also why old fashioned ice cream churns added salt to the ice. The water gets considerably colder.
You must have a huge freezer for that many chickens. Hope you only have to harvest once or twice a year because it looks like alot of work.
Weighing them would be nice so your sweetie knows when she goes to cook it. I did see a video of the stand he made with PVC that allows you to put the bird upside down and slip the bag over it. Looked easy to do and would be worth it.
Not sure if it will help, when we put our birds in the heat shrink bags we have a shop vac with the hose wired to a support post that sucks most of the air out before dunking the bag in the hot water. Just another random idea that made our processing easier. Enjoyed the videos!
Happy birthday chickens they finally got their freezer date
I would love to see Mrs. FTR share some chicken recipes. I have never had fresh from the farm chicken. Something that I am seeking to do. More and more local farms are starting to pop up near me, hopefully my search will be easy. Make that chicken rack, you wont regret it. PVC pipe is your friend.
Turkey fryers should come with a stand so you can set the bird butt down in the kettle. If not, buying a replacement shouldn't be that much. A good design for your application might be the Orion Cooker Poultry Stand.
One year we did a whole batch. And the next day we fried about half in the turkey fryer.. we then froze them in meal size portions. Sunday chicken dinner for weeks
Nice big birds
I love the chicken plucker 🤣🤣🤣 👍👍👍
That fried chicken sure looked good 🐔
so chicken not aged like beef?
Those are some big chickens! Sure, it's a lot of work, but I bet the flavor of that fried chicken makes it all worth it.
Hey Tyler, a timely video for me. Getting setup and ready. What is the length of your processing table?
The salt should actually lower the ice slurry temperature in your esky. But there are two things going on. Salty water freezes at a lower temperature, but dissolving salt takes energy, lowering the temperature. So if you put to much in it can actually make it refreeze.
I’d be very interested in a scalder build!!
A great channel.
Really, think about getting a potable hose, a regular hose has a lot of toxins ... I mean if you're going to all the trouble of raising your chicken why not use clean water to process them? 💕🌞🌵😷
very Nice 👍
Yummy chicken thanks for another great video!
That chicken looks delicious. I wish I could get one
Thanks for this video. Sharing with a friend who's needing to learn how to do this.
How much do your chickens weigh?
I can't even sharpen a knife and I do carving, ha ha. So whatever way you sharpen your knives, good on you. Also, butchering chooks is never a nice thing to do, but it has tot be done, so you do how you do it and you look as if you have a better way than I do.