I was amazed at your children. They got right to work, no "ew, gross" comments, they just got busy. I think you are such good parents.

I see so many farm families that dont instill the work ethic - joy of work to their kids - it's makes me happy to see your kids understand and enjoy takin part in family duties - wonderfull !

Y'all are amazing! The kids are growin up to be good, capable and productive. More families should follow your example.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

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Enjoyed watching today! We introduced my parents who are in their 80s to the channel a week ago and they are addicted to it! As we gathered together yesterday with the whole family, my mother had the floor and had to show and tell the whole family about y’all’s channel lol. It’s their number one thing to watch because it reminds them of the way they grew up!

@dorothyculbertson5640

2 ай бұрын

I can relate ❤

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so so much ❤️❤️❤️

I absolutely love how your family works together. I love how you treat your precious wife. My husband of 55 years always took care of me. He wouldn’t let me lift heavy things. If he was home when l went to get groceries he always carried them in while l put them away.

Megs serious business and must be a fan of Larry The Cable Guy - git er done 👍

Thanks for taking us along the process. Great job teaching the children about working together for a common goal, the most important goal of a lifetime. Feeding yourselves and the family. Teamwork makes the dream work. 💜

You two are such a cute couple. And your family is so wonderful. Ty for sharing. Another great video!! ❤

Even ole Tiger has a job of “keeping the grounds clean!” Tough job, but someone’s gotta do it. 🐕

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

That’s right! 🤣

Megan from one nurse to another, I applaud your consciousness of cleaning and cleanliness throughout this procedure. Wish I was closer to purchase one of your chickens!

@donnasaylor2778

2 ай бұрын

O you’re precious you would flip over the. Fair you would feel right at home i love and you only need your clothes it’s all taken care of Friday and Saturday morning we feed the dairy farmers think you be in middle of them love prayers kids ride eat and you’re at home here I write you all are good I hear baby girl 👧 love you all

@donnasaylor2778

Ай бұрын

I make gravy we feed the Twice they love it and us they rise shine me too in my kitchen Fonna jn hers she comes bye to pick up eat early I stay here Clem up and we’re off doize never clise live you all dear to our hearts yo all looks like u stepped out hat box I love that love ❤️

Good morning from Oregon, the kids are amazing I love they know so much and participate in how their food is grown and processed.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

They are such a huge help around here!

Thank you thank you thank you for instilling work ethic into your kids. Nothing I can’t stand more than seeing lazy youngins!! On behalf of the part of society who know how to work and aren’t afraid of it…. We thank you!!

Always great job everyone 👏 appreciate y'all sharing 😊 those feet and necks never had a chance lol 🤣 awesome

Thankyou so much all of you... thoroughly enjoyed the video !

Meg is my hero :) she can do it all. Andy, I LOVE beenie weenies and cornbread. Grew up on it. :)

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

That’s a very comprehensive online course on chicken processing. Thank you very much.

Great job y'all 👍🤠👍. Great job kiddos helping, y'all have learned something that'll come in handy in y'all's future. It makes a huge difference when y'all get the helping hand to make the task go smoother👍❣️👍 It's a great feeling knowing where what yr eating is coming from 👍🤠👍❣️ Much love to y'all from here in Michigan ❤️

It's wonderful to see family working together. And everyone will enjoy the fruit of your labor.

Great job ! I do love to see young folk raised proper ! I would have been having chicken liver for supper though.

I enjoyed watching your family butchering together. We butchered our meat birds Saturday and my 16 year old son has taken over the roles of getting the birds from the pasture, dispatching, scalding, and plucking. My husband bragged that he didn’t have help at all with that and was able to help me with the gutting. Our day went much faster.

I just can't get over your children and the work ethic they have learned at such a young age. They are also about the happiest and contented I have seen, working with their Mom and Dad. The butchering and what is what, very interesting. You tell people what they really need to know. Like what happens the 7 - 8th week with feed expenses. Your humanity in not forcing their weight due to heart attacks. Like you make sure not to package all of them whole. Problems with the equipment. This was an awesome video. Thanks.

@daleenlow7045

2 ай бұрын

Blow the dust off of the pilot light

Love seeing the kids being involved in the process, they definitely will respect the meat when they sit down to eat knowing what it takes to produce it. I worked at a game-bird farm and butchering day was always a long day, we had a rabbit meat operation to where I butchered 20 rabbits or more in a evening. Considering getting some more meat animals.

@leslieclifton7625

2 ай бұрын

The gutting reminds me of Rabbit harvest day. I'm not so fast though..

We operate a commercial poultry farm and have to keep a lot of brooder heaters going. My husband's favorite fix it method is an air compressor! He is also a big Bush bean fan! We have a pantry full of them! 😂 Best to all!

I grew up learning to butcher chickens and I am so glad I have that skill, as hubby and I raise our own chickens ❤

Good clean chicken without all the stuff the factories put into their feed. Maggie is just a go getter. Whatever and whenever something is goin on she's there. and so is Jacob. Teach your children well and by golly you guys have. God Bless your family, Mom and Dad I know you are very proud of them. Great kids. God Bless. Rebekah

Great video i helped my mom when i was a kid

Sorry I can’t watch this video but I will give you a thumbs up

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

Totally understand! No worries!

I always save my cereal bags and put my chicken breast in and store them in the freezer, they never get freezer burnt❤

There's no better brown bean than Bush's. I am so impressed with how well your children work with ya'll. Most kids start out helping but then after awhile they lose interest and are no where in sight. And they seem to really enjoy doing what they were doing. Great video as always!

@delphine88313

2 ай бұрын

Yep, I love those bush beans.I get the vegetarian beans( im not vegan, but like that version).

@sandysmith8567

2 ай бұрын

Even cold right out of the can on a picnic! So good!

I love your family best on U tube beautifully dressed and so sweet we keep ‘em for sure Amen ❤

Once again, the kids were right there in the mix helping out, love this!!

Growing up, we just lit a fire, set a tub over it and kept the fire going. There was five of us and everybody had their jobs. Mine was plucking the chickens by hand. It was an all day job because we processed 50-100 chickens. We didn’t have a freezer at first but rented a freezer storage locker in town.

The two children are worth a million, you should be very proud of them and the way you are bringing them up

Good morning front east N.C. great video as usually very educational for those who are wanting to learn or see where food comes from it just doesn't Magically appear in the grocery store. Good thing about this is you know what they've been feed& given. Also loved how you had your children working with you basically teaching them.i remember following my Grandpa around didn't matter if it was on the boat commercial fishing or cutting wood or in the garden he always had me a job he was teaching me plus it made me feel good.i certainly miss them times for sure Have a great day & God Bless you all🙏⚓

Hi Megan, I'm so glad I came across your channel. I'm a country girl from North Carolina and I miss the days when my grandmother use to cook back bones and the processed chickens off the yard. There's nothing better. You all have a beautiful crop of vegetables and I miss the days of helping in the garden when I was young. Oh and I can't forget about the biscuits made with lard. Have a great week you all.

I am not ashamed to say I like my beans that way too sir. Great job by the whole family. It's nice to see.

My husband and I taught ourselves how to process our chickens by watching youtube video's. It took us an entire day to do 9 birds and they were just yard birds. We've never raised any meat birds yet. We don't have any of the items you had for scalding and plucking. We just did it all by hand. It was a big learning experience. I just proud that we were able to do it at all. I love that you all do it as a family.

@sandysmith8567

2 ай бұрын

You're ahead of so many of us, so congrats!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

It’s a HUGE learning curve! You should be proud it is a big step, especially doing it all by hand! I remember our first time ever I think we did 15 maybe and we had some friends come help and it took us from sun up to sun down, we were all exhausted. But the more you do it the more efficient you become! We started about 5 years ago or so

Make you some home fries! Add some ramps or onions to those potatoes! Lol!! Celebrate Appalachia! Love both of these you tube channels!

Those kids are getting tremendous “life lessons”! Dang good, practical knowledge that will serve them well forever! ❤

If you can't keep the pilot llit it's most likely the thermocouple. I'm not a homesteader , I just spent 45 years in the HVAC business.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!!

Ya'll are great, especially teaching your children how to process the chickens they know where their food comes from

Thank yall so much, I love learning. My Mom and Dad the chickens, themselves also. I was so amazed the kids working and knowing what they're doing, and each knife and knows what to do with it. 😊❤🙏 Ms. Ruby

You guys make some of the best videos! Much love from the Midwest! ❤❤

I wish we were closer so we could all jump in together and help on these days. Y'all are a great team though!

Good afternoon Good to see you guys & your children working as a team ❤ Teaching them at a young age how to live off the land … I think that’s awesome👍

You and your family are wonderful. Period. Love your videos and your husband & kids are very lucky to have you.

Wow! Meat birds ready!! Great! And supper looked good.

Me and my wife had a farm for ten years. Cattle, goats, chickens and rabbits. Had to let it go. Was not going to die with my boots on. I cut the chicken up in pieces and left the exposed internals and back. That’s how I did it.

Great job on all of it! Y'all do an awesome job showing the reality of how busy life is on a homestead. True grit!

I love how you all get along so well. You may have knock down drag outs off video but, you all seem to respect and get along with each other well. Also like the way you are raising your children. Great job ! I truly enjoy your videos.... reminds me of my growin up years at home.

wonderful how your teaching your kids I see grown people that have no idea what it's like to provide for them self ,,,if the stores close they'd be lost! NOT YOUR KIDS GREAT WORK TO YOU ALL

I want to say Thank you. The way you process your birds and show the process is great. My daughter and I tried to process her chickens and let me tell you, it was an adventure. You explain everything and showing. My mom and aunts use to buy chickens to process, but I always left. I do like your plucked and will be looking into getting one, so much easier than pulling them by hand. So thank you for sharing and teaching. God Bless you and your family. Love from Delaware

Y’all are so sweet with each other. I love how encouraging and kind your interactions are ❤

I just love watching your family working together. It amazes me.

I don't think I could be more impressed with all of you❣

Oh the true gritters best corn they love me too plenty butter yum yum

I grew up watching my Mamaw wring chickens necks. She would have loved that plucker. I have to tell the truth I couldn’t gut the chicken and I too am a RN and worked in the OR for several years. Thanks for sharing.

I’m going to get mine done in the fall thank you

Good Morning!

Good to get it going early - probably gettin hot in a few hours

Love watching your videos! I really admire and appreciate how you work together as a family. My daddy had a motto that we lived by, "Family First!" We worshiped together and we worked together! My parents raised 9 children. It wasn't easy by a long shot, but it sure was fun doing everything together! I learned a new trick today about stuffing the chicken legs through the skin. That is genius!!! I'll be sharing that trick with my niece and nephew when I help them process their chickens! God bless you and your loving family!

Your kids are adorable and learning great life survival skills!😇!😇!😇!😇!

This is a great video. My job as a child was cleaning the gesurte. Granny always fried these for dinner. I always felt like it was important for me to clean them good so everyone would enjoy dinner. I didn't eat them but had the gravy and biscuits. Your children are awesome.

Them youngins are something else. Jacob is a worker! Maggie is a lil go-getter! Love the videos,hear me talkin to ya!

I love seeing the whole family involved

Thanks yall. I love how your kids help. Your neighbor in Tn.

I have been thinking about this video all day. To me it seems like it was yesterday that you put the 50 Chicks in that heated building and today you harvested them as full grown meals. Of course for me it seems like a few days, because I was not pulling their little home from one patch to the next. And it amazed me each member of your family had their job in the processing of each bird. Little Magee cut the head off,, Jacob cut the feet off, you gutting them then the kids putting your finished birds in water. And I guess Andy was in charge of dispatching, scalding and de feathering them. Your family is a well oiled machine. It tickles me pink to watch you all work together.

As I said before we can see the boss and future boss of the farm 😮😂.

We enjoyed the video, team work. You guys are amazing, Mat God richly bless you ❤ Lee family, Florida

Just watch your road trip to the South while in Alabama shame you didn't know about Cog Hill Farm. you would have loved Brook and Jason. they have a beautiful farm. please check out their channel. just country people great people.

I really enjoyed this video, I learned what it takes to process your own meat birds. We started raising chickens last year just for eggs. I definitely would not want to this without a plucker, lol. Jacob has got his jobs finely tuned and Miss Maggie is great at helping out where and when needed. Thanks for sharing this day on your homestead!

Knives should always be placed with the blade pointing towards the center of the table to help avoid injuries. Jacob was standing beside several knives that had the blades facing towards the outside of the table and even hanging over the edge.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

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Isn’t that something I had no idea that’s how you process a chicken wow that’s amazing and your kids even know how to do it. I’m so used to just buy one at the store already to go good job all of you. ❤️

I’ll buy mine at the grocery store, thank you very much 😅

Your life is like mine busy

I seen that Tony’s when it came out the cabinet!! Y’all cooking right over there!😂

Thanks for the clean as you go tip. I have never done it this way. Sounds like it is worth it.

Thank you so much for answering my question. I appreciate that.

Megan, I just watched a video of yall singing in yall house ,gospel songs. Yall was really good we loved it. I believe you learned that in church. The children did really good . Maybe yall will do it again.

Aw man, you guys gotta keep the hearts. Cbicken hearts grilled over charcoal are great. Really popular in japanese yakitori.

Love total family involvement

❤Megan, I tried to watch the other video but I’m too tender hearted. I will let this one run but turn the sound down. This way you will get credit for my view. I’m such a wimp. 😂

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

No worries my friend!!

This was the first video I watched of yours & I’ve been watching ever since!!! Really enjoying all your videos as well.

Fantastic everyone has a task in doing it

Love yall, God bless!❤❤❤

This will be us again in about a month. We have 25 to process. Our oldest (she's 12), she wants to learn how to gut this year. We will give her a try, I usually get backed up.

Hi guys! I just love your greenhouse, so cute and what a great setup with the gravel floor ! It’s Gonna be so useful and pretty at the same time ! Good to see the real deal in the whole family butchering your chickens, I’m learning so much from y’all! I’m sure they taste way different than store bought. Same as your home grown strawberries . My mouth watered when you were picking them the other day😊 y’all take care. God bless you !

What skill! Thank you for enlightening me to these techniques. Chicken is hard for me. I was the dipper/ plucker. The smell is something. Eating chicken off the bone still bothers me, and so does raw chicken. It’s crazy because I’ve done all of the life process with beef, and it isn’t like the “chicken experience.” I appreciate your dedication to your animals. They are blessed to have you and you are blessed to have them.

Such a valuable video! Thank you for taking the time to teach us!

Love watching!

you need a new thermocouple for the gas valve to keep the pilot lit and clean the pilot assembly with wire tooth brush and then blow it out across the top, We love the channel, moved to Florida from Mooresville NC, we have big garden due to ya'll and Hoss and Lazy Dog , changed our lives, God Bless

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you ❤️❤️ and best of luck on your gardening adventures!!!!

I really enjoy ya'lls videos and learn a lot too. Good job.

You all are amazing!

Thankyou 😊

Love your videos and every day life on the homestead! God bless you all 🙏

Just found your channel. I live in NNE Tennessee. I love my Appalachian home. Best wishes.

Old army saying is clean as you go

Beautiful to see the young ones diligently doing their tasks..you can tell they are well practiced too.

Thank you guys ❤️

Awesome teamwork y'all!