Part of the torture is watching this happen to their friends and family. Other chickens around the killing operation here know what is going on, they smell it; it's basic instinct to know when predators are about.
Now even if you could remove all the torture and exploitation of it, which you can't, you're still ingesting slimey diseased rotting animal carcass. There is no reason for it. You may like the taste, but you destroy your health and body. Eating flesh makes a body fat and a mind dull.
I have made the decision to breed my own chickens for the table as I do not wish to contribute to the disgusting companies that mistreat the animals they slaughter for supermarkets. I have thought about stopping eating meat but as Humans are omnivores (meet & veg eater) I feel this would not be natural (my own opinion) although my respect for animals means I must break away from supermarket meat.
I applaud you for your caring nature and your willingness to share your expertise!
@Dabbzle "I have thought about stopping eating meat but as Humans are omnivores..." I am not an omnivore, I do not eat a shred of rotting animal flesh, nor do I ingest animal secretions. I think if you investigate you will find that it unnatural and in fact quite unhealthy for humans to enslave and eat animals.
I do appreciate and understand your refusal to participate in the factory farming machine. But we should not delude ourselves that slight modification is significant change.
Respect shown for the animal is just so rare and amazing. We see these losers who put "Chicken Massacre Gory and awesome" but its not. You are a very respectable man and thats alot because im only 13 and i was astonished, RESPECT..
Growing up in the midwest, we dipped the beheaded chickens in boiling water, which made plucking so much easier. Then ran them over a gas flame to char the pin feathers. Ducks, geese & pheasants we'd strip the skins (with feathers on) completely off the birds, just like you would a rabbit or squirrel.
Thank you for showing such respect for the animal - something a lot of people don't have or display in any sense. Really takes a kind heart. Greetings from America.
I used the automatic pluckers and the way you did it here but hot water is the easy way..PS don't eat the chicken the same day, put it on ice or in the fridge a couple days. It makes a big difference plus birds you eat should be 8 weeks, the saying tough old bird is for a reason. And for those birds that are too old, boil them slow for several hours and they will eventually get tender
We just did 2 of ours, they were dual purpose cockerels but tasted aweful! Stringy, dark meat, nothing like what you get in the store. When you have too many roos you have to kill them but next time I won't bother with cleaning them to eat, they just weren't worth it. Did you find these chickens to be bad tasting? I roasted one and boiled the other.
Great video. I agree with your sentiments completely. I've been plucking mine the same way, but next time I'm going to give scalding a try and see if that speeds the process up. It just takes too much of your day to pluck more than a couple of chooks!
Have you tried skinning them, too? I do that with ones I'm not going to roast or fry (e.g. older hens that will be stewed), and it's a bit quicker.
When I lived in the Mid-West I shot my share of Pheasants for dinner (avg. 1 a week). Never plucked them, just pulled the skin off feathers and all. Very quick and much easier...and most likely healthier.
I am a vegetarian and I think you have great ethics in regards to eating meat. You are very respectful. It is such a shame that not all meat eaters are like you...myself included prior to switching to veggie.
They had a great life. They had no suffering. I admire you for what you did. I eat meat, used to be a veggie, but couldn't resist bacon. We kept ours as pets. Hope you enjoy it as your roast dinner.
I have so much admiration for you and applaud you for your ethics. Am slowly going through building my coop and am going to face the same situations as we are on a residential block we are not allowed roosters so they will need to be eaten. I think it is an important lesson to teach my children aswell. It just means they will have the information to make decisions later in life.
Would love to see a full video of how to slaughter and butcher chickens. I have a friend with lots of layers and he's ready for slaughtering them but doesn't have the stomach to do it himself. Has offered us half if we will do it...now we just need to know how so please show me!
Good stuff in the videos. It's a sad state on planet earth when people have to go through so much apology for eating meat. People who are to stupid to get that animals are killed for food, not just by other animals but by their own kind, deserve to devolve into grass eating cattle. The morons.
On that happy note, good job with the chickens man, you're doing it well as far as I see. I'm an expert. I used to hold 2 in my arms and pop their heads off with my hands in a little flip of both birds.
Hi Christian, I enjoy your videos. I eat meat and am looking forwards to the time when I can raise meat birds, maybe even a bull or 2. I have lots of range for chickens in the apple and berry part of my property. I will look forwards to your killing video. It really needs to be shown. Very important in our day where folks are so detached from their sources of food. Cheers.
I would like to see the video of you actually doing the task. It makes me unconfortable, but I too am hoping someday to be doing the same kind of gig you've got going on and think I would benefit from seeing it done.
I used to butcher my chickens for meat but just didn't like the taste of free range chicken. I didn't pluck them though. I just ran my hands under the skin & removed the skin & feathers in one pretty efficient swoop. WAY less work than plucking. You definitely gotta be careful removing the internal organs so the intestines or other organs don't rupture & contaminate the meat. It's easy once you do a couple. I just raise them for eggs now.
I'm totally with you on not going through the process of plucking the birds. Just take the skin and off leaving the head, wing tips and lower legs with the skin. Much easier, faster, and besides, not eating the skin is much healthier. Take it from a retired veterinary microbiologist.
Thank you for sharing this? I was curious thou, to pluck feathers don't you throw it in boiling water to make the feathers easier to pluck? I don't know much about plucking feathers and just asking.
Great! I want chickens very badly.....but so far I'm not sure if I could kill and eat them. I still have childhood memories of my father killing turkeys and them running headless and bloody in the yard.
All the meat I eat I kill myself. Either my chickens or when I hunt or fish. The only meat I buy is from a coworker who raises organic beef as a hobby not as a business.
I thought, I don't know, my great-grandmother put it in boiling water. I thought my mother told me. And the feathers came off, I thought. It doesn't look too hard to defeather them. I'd admire the job; I'd like to have a farm. Don't let the chicken get cold, huh?
when you complete the whole process from chick to supper I find that nothing is wasted. I use every bit of a chicken that I have raised and killed and can't bear to see the kids wast so much as a bite. right down to making chicken broth and soup. Good vid nice to see the compassion for your food.
I agree with another poster - we used to scald Grandma's chickens in a big pot of boiling water to make the feathers come out easier - even so, plucking was one of my least-favorite chores. It took me forever, and I always missed some pin feathers. Grandma, on the other hand, could pluck a chicken smoother than a super-model's bikini line in what seemed like seconds.
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The real secret to raising chickens for food is detailed in H. Allen Smith's 'Don't Get Perconel With a Chicken' (not a typo)
Thanks so much for the vid. I would like, if anyone can recommend, to see a video on how to dress a chicken, pig, cow. I'm not squeemish and in a pinch could do the deed but I know there are rules to be followed so as not to ruin the meat. Reading those rules vs seeing them is a world of difference...I LOVE Youtube!
You need to boil some water. The feathers come out very easy after 30 seconds in boiling water. If you can not have boiling water, next I would skin the bird.
what about that chicken that lived for 9 months without a head lololol. But the, fair enough, chickens are one of the lowest on the food chain, loads of creatures consume them, no point in saying it's bad when it's rpetty much part of nature.
@roryos We had a agg farm ( Agricultural Farm) at our school where we grew veggies (pot...lol...no there was no pot) and we had chickens, I was in a cooking class, and we had to kill, prepare and cook a chook. I should of wagged school that day.
@anthacdc Yer we had surfing, sailing, O and i all most forgot, Ginnie Pig Tossing That was my Favorite, Gosford High School, on the Central Cost of N.S.W. But that was a long time ago, Back in the olden days....lol
..but since you are into being green & self sustainable..u gonna use those feathers?? lol..make some pillows or a mattress or comforter..waste not want not, lol.
Does a lion apologize for killing a gazelle? This is just nature..real life..the way of the beast..no apologies needed..everything and everyone dies at some time or another..a quick chop beats mangling and strangling w/jaws around your neck..if a fox got that chicken would not be so humane I will tell ya..
I am not down with the eating of meat.. but I appreciate the way in which you go about it... If this was the way we all practised the process of taking an animals life to eat, then things would be a hell of a lot better for the overall suffering that takes place.
@lxvlx sufering lol, sorry but those who do not eat meat are so concerned about animals rights when there are so many human rights ignored, but to each their own. Much love and God bless.
Good video either way I am a great supporter of what you do.
@lxvlx important yes but equal to a chicken or a pet....never will i agree with that. People are quick to cry over a dog being run over or chicken slaughtered but when a man is imprisoned for a crime they did not commit or raped in prison nothing........no tears no green movement for them no riots no protests by the masses. Mankinds priorities are F-ed up. Just sad to me. Someone commented here the chicken could have nightmares if they saw the slaughter? Stupidity & coward-as is running a muck.
@IKLIPTIC Well considering there are around 50 billion animals slaughtered each year around the world for human's trivial needs, I would say people are doing quite well.
@lxvlx hmmm trivial needs, I guess your one of those that don't know cannibalism was running rampid across Europe during WW2 you see slaughtered animals today as trivial but those in the past would kill for food. Just shows how stupid people of today are and how spoiled they are. No ability to appreciate what they have and the freedom to choose for themselves when many in the past and today have no choice. We see the world in 2 different forms of light, clear and bright and muddy and diluted.
Thank you for this video. Not many people show this in as gentle and caring way as you. I am a meat eater raising chickens for eggs. Since they are my children's pets, I probably won't eat them, but there may be a day when I need to know how to do this.
putting them on boiling water after killed to make undressing the chicken easier
restlesseyes 2 weeks ago
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Part of the torture is watching this happen to their friends and family. Other chickens around the killing operation here know what is going on, they smell it; it's basic instinct to know when predators are about.
Now even if you could remove all the torture and exploitation of it, which you can't, you're still ingesting slimey diseased rotting animal carcass. There is no reason for it. You may like the taste, but you destroy your health and body. Eating flesh makes a body fat and a mind dull.
FathomlessJoy 4 weeks ago
I have made the decision to breed my own chickens for the table as I do not wish to contribute to the disgusting companies that mistreat the animals they slaughter for supermarkets. I have thought about stopping eating meat but as Humans are omnivores (meet & veg eater) I feel this would not be natural (my own opinion) although my respect for animals means I must break away from supermarket meat.
I applaud you for your caring nature and your willingness to share your expertise!
Dabbzle 2 months ago
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@Dabbzle "I have thought about stopping eating meat but as Humans are omnivores..." I am not an omnivore, I do not eat a shred of rotting animal flesh, nor do I ingest animal secretions. I think if you investigate you will find that it unnatural and in fact quite unhealthy for humans to enslave and eat animals.
I do appreciate and understand your refusal to participate in the factory farming machine. But we should not delude ourselves that slight modification is significant change.
FathomlessJoy 4 weeks ago
Respect shown for the animal is just so rare and amazing. We see these losers who put "Chicken Massacre Gory and awesome" but its not. You are a very respectable man and thats alot because im only 13 and i was astonished, RESPECT..
silvermoon1221 5 months ago
thanks a lot. your videos are really helpful.
cheamannn 9 months ago
Growing up in the midwest, we dipped the beheaded chickens in boiling water, which made plucking so much easier. Then ran them over a gas flame to char the pin feathers. Ducks, geese & pheasants we'd strip the skins (with feathers on) completely off the birds, just like you would a rabbit or squirrel.
EightOfCoins 10 months ago
Fantastic chicken.Looks tasty.I want to raise chickens and do this.
Kitie1969 11 months ago
Thank you for showing such respect for the animal - something a lot of people don't have or display in any sense. Really takes a kind heart. Greetings from America.
FullMetalOvercoat 11 months ago 9
i feel the exact same way about wanting to know what i eat
i love eating chickens fresh well cooked but you know right
MrJangofett2134 1 year ago
I used the automatic pluckers and the way you did it here but hot water is the easy way..PS don't eat the chicken the same day, put it on ice or in the fridge a couple days. It makes a big difference plus birds you eat should be 8 weeks, the saying tough old bird is for a reason. And for those birds that are too old, boil them slow for several hours and they will eventually get tender
rickyeon 1 year ago
We just did 2 of ours, they were dual purpose cockerels but tasted aweful! Stringy, dark meat, nothing like what you get in the store. When you have too many roos you have to kill them but next time I won't bother with cleaning them to eat, they just weren't worth it. Did you find these chickens to be bad tasting? I roasted one and boiled the other.
MyLittleGreenThumb 1 year ago
theproducegarden: Oh, nothing too gruesome
*dead chicken hanging from tree*
:D
AllanCostaBMX 1 year ago
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moran68 1 year ago
You have a llama....I want a llama...
I'd probably forget to feed him : /
sparrerbyrd 1 year ago
Great video. I agree with your sentiments completely. I've been plucking mine the same way, but next time I'm going to give scalding a try and see if that speeds the process up. It just takes too much of your day to pluck more than a couple of chooks!
Have you tried skinning them, too? I do that with ones I'm not going to roast or fry (e.g. older hens that will be stewed), and it's a bit quicker.
GreenChangeVids 1 year ago
scald them and the feathers come out much easier.
jwalk1014 1 year ago
When I lived in the Mid-West I shot my share of Pheasants for dinner (avg. 1 a week). Never plucked them, just pulled the skin off feathers and all. Very quick and much easier...and most likely healthier.
But I mostly just saute my chicken or pheasant.
bruno2260 1 year ago
I am a vegetarian and I think you have great ethics in regards to eating meat. You are very respectful. It is such a shame that not all meat eaters are like you...myself included prior to switching to veggie.
marko5080 1 year ago 14
@marko5080 tell that to a cat ...
salvadoraugustus 7 months ago
They just ran around "doing chicken-y things".. well put, lol. Thanks for sharing.
cleverjoe 1 year ago
They had a great life. They had no suffering. I admire you for what you did. I eat meat, used to be a veggie, but couldn't resist bacon. We kept ours as pets. Hope you enjoy it as your roast dinner.
clairesallotment 1 year ago
I have so much admiration for you and applaud you for your ethics. Am slowly going through building my coop and am going to face the same situations as we are on a residential block we are not allowed roosters so they will need to be eaten. I think it is an important lesson to teach my children aswell. It just means they will have the information to make decisions later in life.
JosieGirlPussyCat 1 year ago
Would love to see a full video of how to slaughter and butcher chickens. I have a friend with lots of layers and he's ready for slaughtering them but doesn't have the stomach to do it himself. Has offered us half if we will do it...now we just need to know how so please show me!
thebirthden 1 year ago
We used to grow our own chooks, pigs and turkeys when I was a kid. In those days it wasn't unusual or special. Thanks for talking about it.
sadia102 1 year ago
Good stuff in the videos. It's a sad state on planet earth when people have to go through so much apology for eating meat. People who are to stupid to get that animals are killed for food, not just by other animals but by their own kind, deserve to devolve into grass eating cattle. The morons.
On that happy note, good job with the chickens man, you're doing it well as far as I see. I'm an expert. I used to hold 2 in my arms and pop their heads off with my hands in a little flip of both birds.
omegahpla 1 year ago
Hi Christian, I enjoy your videos. I eat meat and am looking forwards to the time when I can raise meat birds, maybe even a bull or 2. I have lots of range for chickens in the apple and berry part of my property. I will look forwards to your killing video. It really needs to be shown. Very important in our day where folks are so detached from their sources of food. Cheers.
1fanger 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this video. I like your outlook on this topic.
MsPatreesh 1 year ago
Excellent point know your meat ! Nothing like doing it your self. Self sufficient life style. Great video!
nightstalkersasslt 1 year ago
I would like to see the video of you actually doing the task. It makes me unconfortable, but I too am hoping someday to be doing the same kind of gig you've got going on and think I would benefit from seeing it done.
Cheers
adamberk07 1 year ago
If people were'nt supposed to eat meat then why are they made of food ?
YamaKazoo 1 year ago
Yep that is where meat comes from. You've done hardwicks proud my friend
heshtech 1 year ago
What the hell is that in the background? A lama?
Hamish121212 1 year ago
I used to butcher my chickens for meat but just didn't like the taste of free range chicken. I didn't pluck them though. I just ran my hands under the skin & removed the skin & feathers in one pretty efficient swoop. WAY less work than plucking. You definitely gotta be careful removing the internal organs so the intestines or other organs don't rupture & contaminate the meat. It's easy once you do a couple. I just raise them for eggs now.
Praxxus55712 1 year ago
@Praxxus55712
I'm totally with you on not going through the process of plucking the birds. Just take the skin and off leaving the head, wing tips and lower legs with the skin. Much easier, faster, and besides, not eating the skin is much healthier. Take it from a retired veterinary microbiologist.
avmgeorge 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this? I was curious thou, to pluck feathers don't you throw it in boiling water to make the feathers easier to pluck? I don't know much about plucking feathers and just asking.
larasa007 1 year ago
@larasa007 yes, dipping the carcass in a big pot of hot water will loosen the feathers. They will stink, but they will loosen.
KasinH 1 year ago
Great! I want chickens very badly.....but so far I'm not sure if I could kill and eat them. I still have childhood memories of my father killing turkeys and them running headless and bloody in the yard.
jihadacadien 1 year ago
@jihadacadien Letting the poultry run can bruise the meat. Not a good idea.
KasinH 1 year ago
@KasinH Yeah but he didn't know better and the first ones were trials.
jihadacadien 1 year ago
All the meat I eat I kill myself. Either my chickens or when I hunt or fish. The only meat I buy is from a coworker who raises organic beef as a hobby not as a business.
chazfensk 1 year ago
You know what's involved in eating meat.
I thought, I don't know, my great-grandmother put it in boiling water. I thought my mother told me. And the feathers came off, I thought. It doesn't look too hard to defeather them. I'd admire the job; I'd like to have a farm. Don't let the chicken get cold, huh?
MarkBH70 1 year ago
@MarkBH70 that is how my great grandmother did it to.
spartencamp 1 year ago
You don't bother to use hot water to ease the plucking?
mattpicard 1 year ago
REAL CHICKENS taste so amazingly good!
GOTTshua 1 year ago
i could not to that. i will raise them and have someone else process them.
MrGreenbudha 1 year ago
are there any parasites you have to deal with, i've seen a clear worm type thing in some of my chickens eyes.
mreisma 1 year ago
the vast majority of chicken is factory farmed and slaughtered by machine. I do eat meat but think factory farming is evil
alSation81 1 year ago
when you complete the whole process from chick to supper I find that nothing is wasted. I use every bit of a chicken that I have raised and killed and can't bear to see the kids wast so much as a bite. right down to making chicken broth and soup. Good vid nice to see the compassion for your food.
outofworkbum 1 year ago
You gotta keep the sunlight out of the camera lens and facing you!
Rihcard of Danbury
Richardofdanbury 1 year ago
To make the plucking easier dip the chicken in hot water!! I think if I can remember when my father did it..
llatoya85 1 year ago
@llatoya85 Thats wot i do, 150 degree frnht then the feathers come of easy.
NARCOPOLO76 1 year ago
I agree with another poster - we used to scald Grandma's chickens in a big pot of boiling water to make the feathers come out easier - even so, plucking was one of my least-favorite chores. It took me forever, and I always missed some pin feathers. Grandma, on the other hand, could pluck a chicken smoother than a super-model's bikini line in what seemed like seconds.
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The real secret to raising chickens for food is detailed in H. Allen Smith's 'Don't Get Perconel With a Chicken' (not a typo)
47f0 1 year ago
Thanks so much for the vid. I would like, if anyone can recommend, to see a video on how to dress a chicken, pig, cow. I'm not squeemish and in a pinch could do the deed but I know there are rules to be followed so as not to ruin the meat. Reading those rules vs seeing them is a world of difference...I LOVE Youtube!
1111atreides 1 year ago
What are you going to do with the feathers?
patteyk 1 year ago
You need to boil some water. The feathers come out very easy after 30 seconds in boiling water. If you can not have boiling water, next I would skin the bird.
btigtime2 1 year ago
what about that chicken that lived for 9 months without a head lololol. But the, fair enough, chickens are one of the lowest on the food chain, loads of creatures consume them, no point in saying it's bad when it's rpetty much part of nature.
roryos 1 year ago
I had to do that at school, and i could not kill it, but i plucked and gutted it,
I hope you did not kill them in front of the other chickens. They will have Nightmares
MyAussieDay 1 year ago
@MyAussieDay You had to kill a chicken in school??? what kinda school have you been going to????
roryos 1 year ago
@roryos We had a agg farm ( Agricultural Farm) at our school where we grew veggies (pot...lol...no there was no pot) and we had chickens, I was in a cooking class, and we had to kill, prepare and cook a chook. I should of wagged school that day.
MyAussieDay 1 year ago
@MyAussieDay woah thats pretty cool :D I wish we had an agricultural farm when I was in school
roryos 1 year ago
@MyAussieDay sounds like a kool school
anthacdc 1 year ago
@anthacdc Yer we had surfing, sailing, O and i all most forgot, Ginnie Pig Tossing That was my Favorite, Gosford High School, on the Central Cost of N.S.W. But that was a long time ago, Back in the olden days....lol
MyAussieDay 1 year ago
@MyAussieDay yea back in the day lol
anthacdc 1 year ago
..but since you are into being green & self sustainable..u gonna use those feathers?? lol..make some pillows or a mattress or comforter..waste not want not, lol.
kokonutbaby1 1 year ago
Does a lion apologize for killing a gazelle? This is just nature..real life..the way of the beast..no apologies needed..everything and everyone dies at some time or another..a quick chop beats mangling and strangling w/jaws around your neck..if a fox got that chicken would not be so humane I will tell ya..
kokonutbaby1 1 year ago
★★★★★
MadBadVoodo 1 year ago
thank you for this video
choowee 1 year ago
I think the slaughter video is necessary.
I am not down with the eating of meat.. but I appreciate the way in which you go about it... If this was the way we all practised the process of taking an animals life to eat, then things would be a hell of a lot better for the overall suffering that takes place.
lxvlx 1 year ago
@lxvlx sufering lol, sorry but those who do not eat meat are so concerned about animals rights when there are so many human rights ignored, but to each their own. Much love and God bless.
Good video either way I am a great supporter of what you do.
IKLIPTIC 1 year ago
@IKLIPTIC Humans rights, animals rights.. both are important.
lxvlx 1 year ago
@lxvlx important yes but equal to a chicken or a pet....never will i agree with that. People are quick to cry over a dog being run over or chicken slaughtered but when a man is imprisoned for a crime they did not commit or raped in prison nothing........no tears no green movement for them no riots no protests by the masses. Mankinds priorities are F-ed up. Just sad to me. Someone commented here the chicken could have nightmares if they saw the slaughter? Stupidity & coward-as is running a muck.
IKLIPTIC 1 year ago
@IKLIPTIC Well considering there are around 50 billion animals slaughtered each year around the world for human's trivial needs, I would say people are doing quite well.
lxvlx 1 year ago
@lxvlx hmmm trivial needs, I guess your one of those that don't know cannibalism was running rampid across Europe during WW2 you see slaughtered animals today as trivial but those in the past would kill for food. Just shows how stupid people of today are and how spoiled they are. No ability to appreciate what they have and the freedom to choose for themselves when many in the past and today have no choice. We see the world in 2 different forms of light, clear and bright and muddy and diluted.
IKLIPTIC 1 year ago
Thank you for this video. Not many people show this in as gentle and caring way as you. I am a meat eater raising chickens for eggs. Since they are my children's pets, I probably won't eat them, but there may be a day when I need to know how to do this.
susannamcintyre 1 year ago