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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: manian on April 27, 2012, 06:55:48 am

Title: time to say goodbye.....
Post by: manian on April 27, 2012, 06:55:48 am

well the day has come.......

saturday we will be culling 2or more table birds.............
last time we started this process we only managed 3 and then the fox got the others :o
(not sure if someone gave them the heads up they wouldn't be there for long!!!


yum yum :yum: :yum: :yum:
Mx

Title: Re: time to say goodbye.....
Post by: suziequeue on April 27, 2012, 07:44:43 am

How will you be dispatching them Manion?

Title: Re: time to say goodbye.....
Post by: manian on April 27, 2012, 07:10:34 pm

we starve from food the night before and we've got a dispatcher (a tripod with upside down funnel ) it has an arm theat goes round the neck and a sharp pull kills them. the funnel thing supports them. then cut the neck to bleed and then pluck.

Title: Re: time to say goodbye.....
Post by: deepinthewoods on April 28, 2012, 04:11:39 pm

hang one for a few days, it really improves the flavour.

Title: Re: time to say goodbye.....
Post by: chrismahon on April 28, 2012, 04:30:14 pm

We left some of ours for a few days and they gassed up and tainted the meat. They were starved as you do Manian, but I think they may have had gut worms which started to decompose when the body temperature dropped. They ended up in the dustbin.

Title: Re: time to say goodbye.....
Post by: deepinthewoods on April 28, 2012, 04:56:30 pm

i think you must have been very unlucky there chris, ive hung loads of birds with no problems.