Processing our own chickens on the homestead. We have raised cornish cross meat birds for almost 4 years, no grocery store chicken in that amount of time. I realize that some may find this video disturbing, I also realize some may see it as not sanitary. Please do your research about where your factory farmed food is coming from and WHY they have to be bleached. Our favorite hatchery www.valleyfarmshatchery.com/ Our heat sealed bags amzn.to/47gWTtp My apron amzn.to/3MNwoV1 Our knives amzn.to/40mkO8F As an amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases. The best canning lids you can buy: forjars.co?sca_ref=4462622.SVIoiEGSRI Get 10% off with code APPALACHIAN10 My Etsy Store: thelawsonfarm.etsy.com Music: Rain Musician: @iksonmusic Find my True Grit TShirt Here ⬇ www.thelawsonfarm.com/youtube.html#/ Find my favorite boots here! www.hisea.com/ Get 15% off using code TRUEGRIT The best seed starting kit for small spaces urlgeni.us/amazon/GROWFRIEND Join our Facebook group and share your home canned recipes!: facebook.com/groups/639624823908914 Instagram: instagram.com/truegrit_appalachianways?igshid=YTQwZjQ0NmI0OA%3D%3D& TikTok @tg_appalachianways Contact us: Hello@thelawsonfarm.com Write us: P.O. Box 138 Lawsonville, NC 27022
Wow look at you having all the modern appliances to get through all the chickens. We just had an assembly line. Dispatcher, dunkers, pluckers, gutters and cutters. Ahh the good old days.Don't apologize for your way of life. It's the way life should be. Great channel.
I’ve processed my own chickens before and it is a lot of work! You’ve got that process streamlined and it goes so much quicker with the kids helping. I’m glad you are teaching your kids where their food comes from and how to properly process it.
We have become to far removed from where food comes from. It is sad really because it happened so quickly. Im 55 and still remember my great grandmother butchering chickens on the farm. I applaud you both for including and teaching your children. So many parents dont take time with their children much less teach them anything. Your kids will be able to sustain themselves. Continue showing others the way God intended!
Ya'll are doing exactly what we did 70 years ago and I love what you do. Chicken and hogs were what we survived with. Life was not easy back then and it is still pretty much the same now. I never ate a piece of beef until I was 14 years old even though we had over 200 cows but they were milk cows and did not butcher those. we let them live till they passed away from old age
Those are some beautiful chickens and I bet they taste delicious. Grandma always said store bought chicken didn't taste near as good as farm raised. Your kids are learning so many great skills.
Love your video! We so relate! Our 4 kids all help! It's definitely refreshing to know what's in your food and where it comes from and bringing your family through the process. ❤
Love this! We do the same, involving our children on butchering days. I used to be on scalding duty and last year I got called up to evisceration duty. I dreaded learning how...but now I prefer it to scalding. This year our team was my husband, son, one daughter (the other cares for my Mom), my brother in law, and myself. When it came time to butcher turkeys it was my husband, myself, and one daughter. We are very happy to have quality poultry in our freezers! We do similar with the blood and feathers--we put them directly on the ground where we've already dug our potatoes. We feel that it improves the soil for the following year. It's great to use as much of the animals as possible. Congrats on your poultry!
Another great video. It wasn't just about chickens but about family working together. Not only does processing chickens produce appreciation, but it also teaches the kids a life skill and builds self esteem by showing them that they are needed and essential to the farm. Do you ever have to worry about wild animals when using the blood in the gardens? Would the smell attract any animals? Trust in God and be blessed
If you have a problem some people say spread lime over it.I bury fish heads from time to time in my beds or buckets. I keep forgetting to add the lime but so far I don't see any holes in the soil
Though it may have been alittle hard to watch it reminded me that I grew up around this many moons ago! If we lived nearby, we would be buying your chickens!
Do you not let them soak before packaging and freezing? I’m new to this and see some do this and some don’t. Thank you for these videos! I learn so much!
I put them in ice water as we are going along throughout the day, we are usually done by 1 or 2 take a good lunch break then bag them up after that ☺️ it has worked well for us! I hope this helps and best of luck to you!
Me and my neighbor raised corners crossed chickens I just got 7 he raised them till just about time to process I kept them for about two weeks before I processed them I processed them and they were the toughest chicken I ever ate I actually made soup out of them because I didn't like it I tried to kill them different ways to try to get them less tough never worked I've never raised them again I don't know what was wrong I found that the chicken thighs from Walmart tasted way better and tender compared to corners cross The only thing I can think I did wrong was not leave him in the fridge for 3 or 4 days is what I've been told you're supposed to do I did leave him in ice water for 24 hours
What a blessing to have so much food you've produced yourself. Seeing Andy use the blood for fertilizer really sparked my interest in your raised beds. I've seen them in many of your videos but don't remember seeing how they were made. If you get a chance could you give a tour of how your beds are constructed. I'm wanting to build my own and far more trust the ideas of people I watched with successful gardening over any other source.
I’ve got 48 to do next week… 😅My hubby really likes Cornish cross hens much better than our American Bresse. My German Bielefelders are his second choice & French Black copper Marans he says I should just have for the eggs. 😂 I’ll just be glad to get them processed. Some for the freezer and some for the canner! Lots of bone broth and the scraps get canned for dog food. Red liquid gold & feathers for the garden. Nothing wasted. Even the yucky innards get to be food for wildlife. And the feet make excellent dog treats. 🙈
You are so right! I’m going to keep that in mind about the Bielefelders for future reference. And yes same here we try to utilize every single thing, and the feet I feed to the dog, she absolutely loves them. Best of luck to you on processing day!!
Yes that’s a castor bean plant! Me and Andy joke all the time that the beans look like ticks but didn’t realize that was a nick name for them 😂😂😂 I’m not sure if we will have any seeds available this year, but maybe next!
Another great video!! So many weeks where you're chickens at time of butching? My wife and I live in Brooklyn Michigan. And next spring we are getting our first batch of birds.
These were around 7 weeks old. Best of luck to you, they are a learning curve and you will learn something new every time you raise a batch. I always love to see folks getting into these! Make sure you try a fresh one (after letting it rest for at least 2 days in the fridge)!
It’s a featherman plucker, best invention ever made 😊😅 I’ve hand plucked my fair share, it takes me around 30 minutes a bird, the plucker can do 3 in about 30 seconds
Started doing this about 2 years ago on my little 125x80 in the subs. Also have not bought chicken from the grocery store since I started. Went with FRs first and hit the gold mine with them as they had the Cornish Cross growth gene (and look like brown CXs of course). I kept two of those and two slow red broilers from my second batch as egg layers and they are 10-13lb rockstars, with the 4 birds laying 3-4 eggs per day on average, which is supposed to be unheard of. Have 6 CXs heading to freezer camp on the 8th, 5 New Hampshires a few weeks after that and just picked up some Delawares that I'm going to breed with the FRs. I may try to breed the New Hampshire, but they have bad genes; most flighty birds I've ever had despite being hand tame and they aren't supposed to be that way at all. Don't care about unconst. 'ordinates' that set bird or rooster limits since they are not enforceable. We are not a communist country unless we allow it.
Did you all build your plucker. If so what did you use to build it out of. I hand plucked 30 chickens in a weekend this year and that sucks to do by yourself hahaha. I am going to build me a plucker before next spring when my next run of meat birds will be here and ready.
your chickens look awesome My husband and i met at a slaughter house we did 1000 cattle a day he killed them and i worked on the kill floor doing hearts livers spleen and head meat and stomach lining that was 45 years ago.
Wow beautiful chickens!! I was raised this way and gradually getting back I hope!! We have a few raised beds now. No room where we live now for animals. I heard you sale your meat chickens. How much do you sale your meat chickens?
The work videos are great, but I have access to music streaming services when I want to hear that. I don't find that it adds anything constructive to the video. Sorry!
When buying my meats. I TRY to buy from a butcher here in town I use to order my meat products from a company because they use no hormones and nitrates. Yet at the end of day IF something slips by me .The blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth is sufficient and praying over EVERYTHING i eat, drink and snack on.I do try to eat healthy as possible especially now days.
Processing our own chickens on the homestead. We have raised cornish cross meat birds for almost 4 years, no grocery store chicken in that amount of time. I realize that some may find this video disturbing, I also realize some may see it as not sanitary. Please do your research about where your factory farmed food is coming from and WHY they have to be bleached.
Our favorite hatchery www.valleyfarmshatchery.com/
Our heat sealed bags amzn.to/47gWTtp
My apron amzn.to/3MNwoV1
Our knives amzn.to/40mkO8F
As an amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
The best canning lids you can buy: forjars.co?sca_ref=4462622.SVIoiEGSRI
Get 10% off with code APPALACHIAN10
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Wow look at you having all the modern appliances to get through all the chickens. We just had an assembly line. Dispatcher, dunkers, pluckers, gutters and cutters. Ahh the good old days.Don't apologize for your way of life. It's the way life should be. Great channel.
Oh and your children are blessed to live the life you are giving them.
I found y'all yesterday with the final garden harvest and really enjoy you 😁 So I subscribed. Thank you ❤️
Thank you so much and welcome!
I’ve processed my own chickens before and it is a lot of work!
You’ve got that process streamlined and it goes so much quicker with the kids helping.
I’m glad you are teaching your kids where their food comes from and how to properly process it.
I also want to mention that the chickens you raise are treated much more humanely than those bought from the grocery store.
We have become to far removed from where food comes from. It is sad really because it happened so quickly. Im 55 and still remember my great grandmother butchering chickens on the farm.
I applaud you both for including and teaching your children. So many parents dont take time with their children much less teach them anything. Your kids will be able to sustain themselves.
Continue showing others the way God intended!
I’m very impressed with Jacob! Your raising a fine young man
Thank you!
Ya'll are doing exactly what we did 70 years ago and I love what you do. Chicken and hogs were what we survived with. Life was not easy back then and it is still pretty much the same now. I never ate a piece of beef until I was 14 years old even though we had over 200 cows but they were milk cows and did not butcher those. we let them live till they passed away from old age
Those are some beautiful chickens and I bet they taste delicious. Grandma always said store bought chicken didn't taste near as good as farm raised. Your kids are learning so many great skills.
Love your video! We so relate! Our 4 kids all help! It's definitely refreshing to know what's in your food and where it comes from and bringing your family through the process. ❤
Love this! We do the same, involving our children on butchering days. I used to be on scalding duty and last year I got called up to evisceration duty. I dreaded learning how...but now I prefer it to scalding. This year our team was my husband, son, one daughter (the other cares for my Mom), my brother in law, and myself. When it came time to butcher turkeys it was my husband, myself, and one daughter. We are very happy to have quality poultry in our freezers!
We do similar with the blood and feathers--we put them directly on the ground where we've already dug our potatoes. We feel that it improves the soil for the following year. It's great to use as much of the animals as possible.
Congrats on your poultry!
Your sorghum series motivated me to buy a quart of sorghum syrup. Thanks! I had forgotten how delicious it was. Good job on the chickens.
Awesome!! We have been eating it on everything ☺️☺️
Another great video. It wasn't just about chickens but about family working together. Not only does processing chickens produce appreciation, but it also teaches the kids a life skill and builds self esteem by showing them that they are needed and essential to the farm.
Do you ever have to worry about wild animals when using the blood in the gardens? Would the smell attract any animals?
Trust in God and be blessed
No we haven’t seemed to have a problem it honestly dissipates so quickly in a couple days you’ll never even know it was there ☺️
If you have a problem some people say spread lime over it.I bury fish heads from time to time in my beds or buckets. I keep forgetting to add the lime but so far I don't see any holes in the soil
Though it may have been alittle hard to watch it reminded me that I grew up around this many moons ago! If we lived nearby, we would be buying your chickens!
WOW big fat chickens 😋🤩😅besafe and GOD Bless 🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Good 👍 job. Thank You. God Bless 🙏 your family
Do you not let them soak before packaging and freezing? I’m new to this and see some do this and some don’t. Thank you for these videos! I learn so much!
I put them in ice water as we are going along throughout the day, we are usually done by 1 or 2 take a good lunch break then bag them up after that ☺️ it has worked well for us! I hope this helps and best of luck to you!
I wish I could find a local farmer that sold chickens!! I love that you all raise your own. ❤ I really enjoy your channel!! ❤️
Keep looking! More and more folks are doing chicken this way!
Good to see children work with mom and Dad😅😢😂❤❤
Me and my neighbor raised corners crossed chickens I just got 7 he raised them till just about time to process I kept them for about two weeks before I processed them I processed them and they were the toughest chicken I ever ate I actually made soup out of them because I didn't like it I tried to kill them different ways to try to get them less tough never worked I've never raised them again I don't know what was wrong I found that the chicken thighs from Walmart tasted way better and tender compared to corners cross The only thing I can think I did wrong was not leave him in the fridge for 3 or 4 days is what I've been told you're supposed to do I did leave him in ice water for 24 hours
What a blessing to have so much food you've produced yourself. Seeing Andy use the blood for fertilizer really sparked my interest in your raised beds. I've seen them in many of your videos but don't remember seeing how they were made. If you get a chance could you give a tour of how your beds are constructed. I'm wanting to build my own and far more trust the ideas of people I watched with successful gardening over any other source.
We are planning on adding a couple more beds this winter! Maybe we can get a how to video out there!
Love your videos, Blessings !!
I’ve got 48 to do next week… 😅My hubby really likes Cornish cross hens much better than our American Bresse. My German Bielefelders are his second choice & French Black copper Marans he says I should just have for the eggs. 😂 I’ll just be glad to get them processed. Some for the freezer and some for the canner! Lots of bone broth and the scraps get canned for dog food. Red liquid gold & feathers for the garden. Nothing wasted. Even the yucky innards get to be food for wildlife. And the feet make excellent dog treats. 🙈
You are so right! I’m going to keep that in mind about the Bielefelders for future reference. And yes same here we try to utilize every single thing, and the feet I feed to the dog, she absolutely loves them. Best of luck to you on processing day!!
Great job. Love chicken butcher day. Oh and was that a dog tick (castor bean) plant? And will you have some seeds to sell? I would love some.
Yes that’s a castor bean plant! Me and Andy joke all the time that the beans look like ticks but didn’t realize that was a nick name for them 😂😂😂 I’m not sure if we will have any seeds available this year, but maybe next!
Another great video!! So many weeks where you're chickens at time of butching? My wife and I live in Brooklyn Michigan. And next spring we are getting our first batch of birds.
These were around 7 weeks old. Best of luck to you, they are a learning curve and you will learn something new every time you raise a batch. I always love to see folks getting into these! Make sure you try a fresh one (after letting it rest for at least 2 days in the fridge)!
OMG what is that white contraption that is plucking those feathers? I have nightmares about plucking chickens lol
It’s a featherman plucker, best invention ever made 😊😅 I’ve hand plucked my fair share, it takes me around 30 minutes a bird, the plucker can do 3 in about 30 seconds
Thank you so much beautiful madam please make more chicken butchering video,I will learning from your channel thanks a lots❤❤
Started doing this about 2 years ago on my little 125x80 in the subs. Also have not bought chicken from the grocery store since I started. Went with FRs first and hit the gold mine with them as they had the Cornish Cross growth gene (and look like brown CXs of course). I kept two of those and two slow red broilers from my second batch as egg layers and they are 10-13lb rockstars, with the 4 birds laying 3-4 eggs per day on average, which is supposed to be unheard of. Have 6 CXs heading to freezer camp on the 8th, 5 New Hampshires a few weeks after that and just picked up some Delawares that I'm going to breed with the FRs. I may try to breed the New Hampshire, but they have bad genes; most flighty birds I've ever had despite being hand tame and they aren't supposed to be that way at all.
Don't care about unconst. 'ordinates' that set bird or rooster limits since they are not enforceable. We are not a communist country unless we allow it.
Awesome!
Very interesting , and your young little fella. He sure is a big helper another great video. ❤
I can see so.e chicken pot pie and chicken n dumplings in yall near future. Actually that's what we are having for dinner this evening ( yard rooster)
49 wow,❤🙏🙋🙂.
Did you all build your plucker. If so what did you use to build it out of. I hand plucked 30 chickens in a weekend this year and that sucks to do by yourself hahaha. I am going to build me a plucker before next spring when my next run of meat birds will be here and ready.
Ours is a featherman plucker, an early 2000s model that we bought used. I’ve hand plucked my fair share of chickens and a plucker is a game changer!
Love your videos! ❤
What plucker do you use? TIA
Thank you! It’s a featherman plucker from early 2000s we bought it used a couple years ago
How do you deal with inspections and food permits? Or are you doing the custom exempt slaughter method?
No we are custom exempt, but we still have to have an inspection, they just don’t have to be there during processing.
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays Thank you so much!
Nicely done.
At 65 years of age, I’ve just learned that chickens are butchered, butchered!
Where did you get your chicken plucker?
It’s a featherman plucker, we bought it used a couple years ago. It’s a game changer!
your chickens look awesome My husband and i met at a slaughter house we did 1000 cattle a day he killed them and i worked on the kill floor doing hearts livers spleen and head meat and stomach lining that was 45 years ago.
Whoot!
People bye blood meal to provide what you are giving using the blood.
I have a question about rise beds for gardens? Is there a specific time of the year to build them or it doesn’t matter. I live in NC also.
Wow beautiful chickens!! I was raised this way and gradually getting back I hope!! We have a few raised beds now. No room where we live now for animals. I heard you sale your meat chickens. How much do you sale your meat chickens?
Yes we do sell them occasionally, they are roughly $20 a piece depending on weight
What do you do with the feet. I know some Oriental people like to eat them.
Nice looking birds,what do you do with the chicken feet?
I know you were asking them but I like to make chicken feet with rice.Not much meat but it's good.I think some people make soup stock with them.
@@delphine88313 have never tried them but I may the next time we butcher,ty!
@@claraanderson1305 I clip those toe nails though. Lol .To ME they taste good.
@@delphine88313 when I saw those all piled together, my first thought was, to maybe fry them up & store, for dog treats 😂 my Aussie loves duck feet
@@christymartin3846 lol
You all gona have chicken flavored collards. Lol
The work videos are great, but I have access to music streaming services when I want to hear that. I don't find that it adds anything constructive to the video. Sorry!
That’s cool, nobody is forcing you to watch it 😊
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays Quite right
When buying my meats. I TRY to buy from a butcher here in town I use to order my meat products from a company because they use no hormones and nitrates. Yet at the end of day IF something slips by me .The blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth is sufficient and praying over EVERYTHING i eat, drink and snack on.I do try to eat healthy as possible especially now days.
what a team. ~!