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Not fair! As a boy in North Florida, I did the feather plucking by hand. No fancy machine. Just an old man's view. Thanks - always enjoy.

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

I did that with our first batch of 15 last year, hope to never do it again!

@paulpowell9579

Жыл бұрын

That was the way we did it

@ron.v

Жыл бұрын

Same here. We also lit a burning sheet of newspaper to singe the hair off the bird after plucking. I've never seen a machine like that. Didn't know they existed!

@stormglass2882

Жыл бұрын

Me too. Just dip 'em in hot water and then sit around plucking them. Went fast though once you get the hang of it. Also, there are dishes for the feet, heart and liver. But I guess, it's a cultural thing.

The fact you're sharing "your trade" (knowledge) with others who also have a passion to learn and participate whilst potentially saving $$ by making/producing their own 'fresh' homemade product is outstanding and commended. A lot of respect to you and your 'assistants/pupils'

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

Not really saving money over store-bought, but the satisfaction of it all is nice, and the meat is better.

😂Dawg🐕 shows up ! "Hey I smell 🐔 chicken...could ya spare a po boy a piece ? "🤣✅👍

Square your packages up once you vacuumed them. Makes for much better packing in the freezer and saves a lot of space.

Something I do when processing animals is take wood shavings or a pile of leaves and get them smoldering. Makes a huge difference with the bugs.

@AfterTheRains

Жыл бұрын

Good tip to pass on. No shortage of wood chips there!

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

Now that's a good idea! Thanks!

I have done my own deer and what we use is a 2” stuffing tube into a tube bag. One hand on the bag and the other hand stuffing the meat down the tube. It works great.

@oxfletch

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, that's by far the easiest. Grind and stuff in one operation.

So nice of you to teach others. We were all knuckleheads about everything there was to learn at one time. Time to pass on our time to pay back those who taught us.

This takes me back to my childhood. If I remember correctly, we did about 50 chickens in a day. I helped pluck, no fancy machine. It was an all day project. Repeated a week or 2 later. 50 chickens each for 2 families. Thanks for taking me back. Good job on teaching others. You got help, the learned how to do something on their own and got some chicken besides. Win, Win, Win

It's a great feeling when everything works out well

See that's what's so good about homesteading helping your neighbors. Bring all your chickens, pigs, or any other animals that need processing together and get it done faster. We weren't homesteaders but raised rosters and turkeys for stock shows and at the end all the family and friends that wanted some meat would come over and we would process it all together, then take the extra live turkeys and rosters to the Amish near us. They were always grateful for them.

Great job by everyone, good to see you passing on the knowledge.

That was a great video. You got some good help from your friends and they got some good knowledge on how to process chickens. Your processing station worked great and I'm sure it made the job much easier. The new pigs look like they are right at home.

GREAT video today, Wes !! I really enjoyed seeing your process !! Like you so aptly put it: - "a happy video" !!

Well done, teaching others a skill, and the sink worked very well. Teaching is a reward in itself.

We run old stale bread through the grinder before we disassemble for cleaning. The bread grabs the bits of meat that seem to hide come cleaning time. If the bread has a lot of meat on it you can boil it and add it to your dogs food as a treat.

On top of getting the meat cold you also want to chill the mince blade and extruder too.

@rossanderson5815

Жыл бұрын

@@djamelhamdia134 chill not freeze. 30 minutes before use is probably all you need.

We cut the bottom off a tall sour cream or cottage cheese container put that in the bag, then added the meat to the bag it really helped with keeping the sealing area cleaner.

I've seen people grind their meat with ice cubes mixed in with it. Different means to the same end I suppose. It must be a great feeling being able to provide sustenance for your family all on your own. Great job

@AfterTheRains

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t that end up with water in the meat? Imagine it would be tougher on the blades too.

That Grinder was the Trick..Great Job..

Another great video thanks Wes! Some great temwork there to get things done, and a whole pile of tasty Chucks for the freezer. Stiil playing KZread catchup, but I'll get there! Stay safe & well. 👍👍

We have a meat grinder, not nearly that heavy duty but we love ours. We will buy Boston butts on sale usually for .99 a pound and grind it and it’s great and inexpensive. God Bless, Daryl

That`s industrial you have there, I grind my deer and make jerky, and sausage, your gonna love it. Yes semi frozen and your grinder doesn`t clog, as you seen, I put my attatchments in the freezer for an hour before grinding, the blade never gets clogged.

Someone may have already mentioned this. I believe that you said there were 5 plates with the grinder, you will notice that the holes are different size. The holes are what determines how coarse the meat is ground. For some things you use the smallest hole, others you may want the largest hole, (depends on the recipe sometimes). As I understand it most of the hamburger these days is actually put through the grinder twice, which makes it pretty mushy. As you use your ground meat, you may decide that you want it to be more coarse ground, so next time use a plate with bigger holes. As far as getting some things in the bags easier, they make a canning funnel that has a large output hole that will fit down in the jar/bag to keep the sealing area much cleaner. It might pay to look into one. (Dollar store might even have them.

When you get done grinding run a handful of ice through the grinder to clean the throat and plates out. Gets most of the meat out.

Always nice to have help when butchering chickens. Looks like a good yield. The little piggies are becoming big pigs.

Trick I saw on another site was to keep white bread in the freezer and run it through the grinder when you are done it will collect all the silverskin and tendons that are wrapped around the grinder parts and make cleanup much easier. Love the channel!

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and thanks for watching!

Thanks. Takes me back to my childhood. Old man speaks.

Get a couple of lugs (bus tubs) to grind into. They hold a lot and are cheap. You can layer them with ice in the lower one to keep meat chilled. It works great for a double grind for burger.

The ground chicken looks amazing. Passing on knowledge is a tradition that people often don’t take advantage of to often.

The circle of life, great video

Many hands make light work. Years back I drove for a wholesale meat company. They ground beef by freezing it first before it went into the grinder. The advice you received was correct. And the company I worked for put out 100's of pounds of ground beef each day.

Nice to have help and to show folks how to as well!

You’re like oh man on duck dynasty just happy, happy happy!

I can not imagine butchering chickens by yourself. help makes the process so much easier

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely slow going.

Great stuff!

Nothing fresher than chicken from the chicken tractor right into the freezer bag. Excellent work 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦

My comment. I have vacuum sealed quite a lot of meat and found that if I put it in the bags, laying flat, and let it partially freeze before sealing, the liquid won't siphon up and hinder the seal. I had a few packages fail when they looked sealed when I did it. The drip pan was a mess to fool with in my opinion. Anyway, that worked well for me for what it's worth. Thanks.

Thank you. Now that is a real homesteading video. Love the butchering station. I use mine as a fish cleaning station mostly but hope to use for deer and bear.

Two tips for you. Run a piece of bread through grinder to get meat around screw pushed out. For pork have sausage spices prepared.

That VEVOR is excellent! Not that it mattrrs, but most set up a large cooler with salty ice water to put the whole chicken in prior to packaging- just for disinfecting. Like i said, not that its needed.

So glad you had help with those chickens!! They were fast learners!! God bless you and your family! 💓🙏💓

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

They were super fast learners. Very motivated. Thanks as always, Dianne!

Thanks for sharing 😊

After processing tomatoes through our Kitchen Aid,, I disassemble the grinder and throw all the parts and tools into one of the larger bowls. I take the whole mess outside and blast everything clean with high pressure water from the hose and then bring it inside for a final sterilizing wash. The outside cleanup only takes 3-4 minutes and removes all of the tedious cleanup mess from the kitchen sink. Only way to go.

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

Great idea!

I love the fact that you dont over complicate things you keep it simple.

@d.a.tsun5104

Жыл бұрын

It just looks simple...LOL.

Well done, great job. Valuable information. Thanks.

Great intuitive video.

anyone else find him grinding & packing the meat kind of soothing to watch..? :/

Ask VEVOR to send you one of their vacuum sealers. And also, you can unbolt the grinder head from the motor in order to clean it.

Well done, good information. Thanks

We kept the feet one year, and my wife cooked them down and made broth. It was a laborious process, but supposedly, the feet contain a lot of collagen. We haven't done that again. We do some whole birds and some cut birds, but we generally leave the bone in the breast. After you've done about 10 birds, it gets really easy to process them, but the dispatching never gets easy. We have a grinder that we use for venison but have never done chicken. My wife is a health nut, so we make our ground venison extremely lean. I prefer the dark meat over white meat. We have a bison ranch in Montana. We have jerky and red meat programs and sell it all before the calves are born. September, we will be out there for 2 weeks. The market is down some right now, but it's still pretty profitable. Unfortunately, the shipping costs to get meat down here are ridiculous. Elk is my favorite wild game, but bison is a close 2nd. We got married in Montana. Bison in the background, with snowcapped mountains. With all the fish we've caught this year, we are not raising any chickens. We have 2 piglets growing and still have a lot of beef from the cow we butchered last Fall. Just planted zipper and purple hull peas this week, so now I'll have to run electric fencing to keep the deer out of the peas. Last year they ate everything I planted.

Nice operation!!!

This is awesome! Definitely getting a grinder.

With that grinder and pig meat you can make summer sausage patties, jerky, all sorts of good things. It opens the door to many different things. No more going to the store to buy hamburger meat. You can make your own and the way you like it.

Love the mobile chicken coop!

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

It's ok. I'm thinking about building a Suscovich one in the future.

Great job!! Your new processing area is Spectacular!! Even though I've never done it, my mother used to tell me stories of how they would process their chickens by cutting their heads off, and letting them run around the yard till they died. Always made us laugh. This video brought back wonderful memories of my mother. Thanks! 15:15 ❤!❤❤

Happy Happy. 🐔🐔🐖🐖

if the bags work for you, then thats fantatsic!! plus you can re-use them over & over & keep the planet a tad cleaner :) x

I've never seen this done before, very interesting!

Great video

Chicken legs and thighs are among the most tender and flavourful part of the chicken. It's good eating. If you're going to be processing your own animals going forward, visit The Bearded Butcher KZread channel. They show in detail how to process complete animals into the various cuts (pig, cow, bison, deer, elk, etc).

First time comment but long time follower. I've ground chicken for years and used in place of burger. We processed our chickens on the farm and raised Capons every other year. * one trick to keep pesky Flys 🪰 away. Zip loc sandwich bags full of water hanging in the area of the meat work. Something about the light refraction scares them away. Great content as always and love seeing your mini me helping Dad. Be safe.

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

good video and job.glad you were able to teach them and every thing went good maybe when you do the pigs them will want to come back.. take care, be safe and well.

Keep some crushed ice handy when grinding meat. If it starts to heat up and get greasy just add some crushed ice and it will firm back up.

Instructive video. While it may be better for the grinding, I was taught NEVER to freeze meat again after it had thawed because of the risk of bacterial infection, especially in chicken. Might be worth checking that out....

Nice processing of chickens 🐔 👌 👍

REALLY enjoyed you video at the end... letting pigs be pigs in the mudhole. Might think about doing that more with future videos with the pigs and chickens and maybe the dogs and cat. Good stuff.

Back in 1980 when we had to make our own Buffalo wings and wings were super cheap we learned that super cold to partially frozen was the best condition for separating the flats, drumettes, and tips. We were buying wings at 10 cents/lb. Correcting for inflation that would be 30 cents/lb today.

😅some I learned, some I knew. Thanks for this😊

Just a chicken plucking minute! You've got a machine for that? Friends get to know the intimates of farming and walk away with a chicken for diner.

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

Might be one of the most useful machines I own.

It was lovely to help and learn. Loved the conversations and your video is outstanding. Tomato sauce coming soon!

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

It was a good time! Looking forward to the sauce.

@esp92310

Жыл бұрын

@@falllineridge Already done! Just need to print labels and share!

yay for happy

I use a momentary foot switch from harbor freight on my meat grinder.

Imagine all the different flavours with spices and herbs you can try out in your own sausages. Add all the spices to the meat before you bag it and you can have ready made taco meat.

I have a recipe for turkey burger that I bet will work for chicken burger. Thank me later... 1 pound ground turkey (or chicken) 1 egg 5-6 ounces of chopped frozen spinach (drained of water) 3/4 cup of grated mozzarella cheese 1/2 teaspoon salt Pepper if you want 1/2 teaspoon of Cavenders (I use 1 heaping teaspoon) Mix thoroughly. Make into medium to thin patties and cook thoroughly.

awesome

hello fall line ridge it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Randy!

We have similar grinder for venison, can't say enough good things about them. They're right - make sure your meat is well chilled or the experience will be much less enjoyable

build your own smoke house. Not sure what your stance on "gifts" are but you are a Teacher

I really like that fancy chicken plucker. We had to do it by hand in my youth and I absolutely HATED it.

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

I did our first 15 last year by hand. Hope to never do that again!

An old coffee can could hold those bags while you're grinding.

I hope you keep those chicken feet. No sense in throwing them away. They are a great addition to a stew pot ..... or better yet, when making a simple pot of bone broth. Just cooke'em until they fall apart, and any and all cartilage has melted into the broth. It is an excellent source of nutrition added to the pot. Also hope you kept those chicken hearts, gizzards and livers ...... yum, good eating.

Enjoyed the video. You need to start the process all over again with baby chicks for the next food cycle. Blessings to you on being Self Sufficient.

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

I'll probably wait until cooler months to do it again, this batch really struggled in the heat.

MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼

On beef and pork you'll want to run it through your grinder twice otherwise you won't be happy with the way it turns out. I but pork loins and grind them. I get them for something like $2.38 a pound, much cheaper than any beef or sausage product at the store. Pork loin is lean and practically fat free.

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I never would of thought a meat processor could behave badly.

Use a bowl big and let it fall into the meats so all you have to do is use your scale to weigh the amount for each bag then you only handle meats once then freeze

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Hello Wes. That is a great setup. Did the winning chicken get to stay around for more days? I hope the honey harvest is getting closer. Have good days!

I know KZread won't let you show it, but can you tell us how you kill the chickens? Some 75 years ago, my grandmother kept chickens in her backyard in Dallas TX. I remember seeing a live chicken hanging by its feet on the clothesline one Sunday morning. Grandmother walked out with a paring knife and cut its head off. Blood flew everywhere until the wings stopped flapping. That's all I remember of that scene, but I remember how good that chicken was at dinner.

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

I put them in a cone and cut the throat. Very humane, they're out in 3-5 seconds, everything else is just reflexes, just like your bird on the clothesline.

You have to try some sausage this fall with your new meat grinder.

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

I really want to.

those chickens screams aint supposed to be funny but they knew exactly what was gonna happen to em lol , very informative video tho

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

I've wondered if they know or not. I think they're just scared about being picked up. Not the brightest animals.

Won't you still need a sink trap for your redneck, gray water leach field? You can always fill it with RV antifreeze in the winter.

If you are thinking about butchering your own pig think about making sausage. Find somebody who is rather old that used to have hogs and butchered their own and see if they have a good spice recipe for sausage making.. This grinder should probably also have an attachment for stuffing sausage into casings if you are of a mind to have smoked sausages.

Get throwaway pan

Probably should put "P" traps on the drains..

Winner winner becomes chicken dinner?!?!

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much. She lived the longest though!

Save and clean the feet. Add them to bone broth, theyre full of collagen

I really love your videos. It's better to cut the chicken oysters from back bone while you are cutting the legs.

@falllineridge

Жыл бұрын

I'll start doing that! Thanks.