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dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 15 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

38 days in a shed eating pellets

or a chook with a decent home ,diet ,activity ,age etc etc

no contest

i dont eat industrial fowl

mal55



Joined: 15 Jul 2009
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Location: Erewash or in the dog house
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 15 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have a wall mounted guillotine type dispatcher. I've found that if I put the lever gently over the bird's neck just below the head lift the bird up as far as it will go then drop it at the same time as jerking the lever down I get a clean kill every time. I talk quietly to the bird all the time.
The worst thing for us is plucking due to arthritis. I tried one of those pluckers you fit onto an electric drill but ended up looking as though I'd been tarred and feathered! My wife was in hysterics as I tried to get into the house. At the finish I had to strip down to socks and pants outside before she'd let me in. I've never used the flipping thing since! It's wonderful how you never have a camera handy when you need one isn't it!!

Woo



Joined: 19 Sep 2011
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Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 15 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

mal55 wrote:
I have a wall mounted guillotine type dispatcher. I've found that if I put the lever gently over the bird's neck just below the head lift the bird up as far as it will go then drop it at the same time as jerking the lever down I get a clean kill every time. I talk quietly to the bird all the time.
The worst thing for us is plucking due to arthritis. I tried one of those pluckers you fit onto an electric drill but ended up looking as though I'd been tarred and feathered! My wife was in hysterics as I tried to get into the house. At the finish I had to strip down to socks and pants outside before she'd let me in. I've never used the flipping thing since! It's wonderful how you never have a camera handy when you need one isn't it!!


dpack



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 15 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

feather comedy is rather fun .
i have had an opening door surprise when the draft lifted quite a cloud of chest down from the floor

Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 15 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Don't talk to me about feathers! A scenefrom Christmas past.


A heavy snow storm but many hands made light work.














Father and son. The one's on the right.
























Blind Pugh.









Two Christmas Dinners.





mal55



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 15 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's nothing Bodger! Unfortunately I was working outside and it came on to drizzle. The feathers stuck absolutely everywhere. I could've done a double act with Frosty the Snowman!
Those look beautiful birds though.

Bodger



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 15 11:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

They were fantastic tasting and made Christmas dinner that year.

mal55



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 15 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You can't beat home grown and fed birds. I started with Sasso "White Rangers" and "Gauloise" which were fantastic despite being "broilers."
The ones we didn't manage to knock off ended as layers and we got crosses with a Bressé cock from them which eat even better.
The first time I ever had to neck a bird was when my father in law died. My brother in law and I had to knock off a shed full of turkeys. We started off with the small ones and worked our way up. The last one was built like a Russian weight lifter and pulled David off his feet. He looked like he was being Emu'd!! The bl%^*y thing kept giving him the evil eye, kind of set it's neck muscles and just wouldn't give up. At the finish we had it straight jacketed in a sack with a corner cut out and I had hold of it whilst he wrung it's neck. I felt terrible at the muck up we'd made of it and couldn't face turkey for years. If you can't make a clean kill you shouldn't do it but at the time we had no choice.

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