Hosting a chicken and duck plucking on our homestead. Where we don't do the plucking but instead set up our scalder and plucker and let folks come out and use it. We actually don't eat or process that many chickens so by inviting others to use our equipment justifies the setup. In fact during this plucking we didn't process one chicken for ourselves. We did have several ducks and three turkeys for us.
Up Next in Season 1
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The Bull of Unknown Origin
We find ourselves in Dripping Springs with a bull of unknown origin for processing. His breed is just unknown and probably a mix of so many different ones. He is carrying some age as well, past the point of tender steak cuts. In most cases these bulls will go for all grind, basically turning them...
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Racing the Storm
We have the clock working against today with only 6 1/2 hours to process 3 goats and 4 pigs before a spring thunderstorm comes rolling in on us. One of the biggest problems we have with a fully booked schedule going out for months and months is that we don't have room for rescheduling. Today is a...
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Beef Organ Harvest
Today's mobile slaughter video cast is all about harvesting tallow, suet fat, and beef organs. This is one of the more educational videos on beef processing, we have posted. It shows the breakdown and harvesting of beef organs, sweet bread, heart, liver, kidneys, and leaf fat (cull fat, lace fat...
