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  • Turkey is like O SHIT

  • Is he turkey's doctor?

  • That Turkey Fought!

  • Your other turkeys think this is so funny!

  • Is that a royal palm?

  • Why not take his all the way of so you know it's dead before plucking?

  • Thankyou, a very informative video. I am soon to try my first turkey. I already kill my own ducks and chickens but watching this video has really helped me.

    Its a shame so many meat eaters will only buy oven ready meat and they have the nerve to complain to us for eating fresh free range home reared meat.........there is just no educating some poeple. !!

  • would using a killing cone keep the bird from flapping so violently? 

  • @3:48 "This is like your butt, with a lot of fat on it"

  • Thank you for this very instructive video. I apologize for the fools that commented the way they did because I know they don't have the proper raising to apologize themselves. Happy Thanksgiving!

  • SOMEDAY AN ALIEN RACE WILL DOMINATE THIS PLANET AND HARVEST HUMANS FOR FOOD. THERE WILL BE BUTCHERING OF HUMANS ON A MASS INDUSTRIAL SCALE. SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

  • He Kicked You're Ass!

  • dont listen to these guys thats a great way good vid.

  • You are a very bad butcher! God gave us the right to eat animals but not torture them. Have some common sense on what that creature may be feeling. Not respectful or humane at all.

  • BUTCHER URSELF FIRST, IF U LIKE IT, THEN BUTCHER OTHERS

  • @NasimATBird Go fuck yourself.

  • @startug You r the terror supporter, u better do it!

  • @NasimATBird Yeah, you look like you're against butchering, but you're saying someone should butcher themselves... Hypocrisy, or just plain ignorance? Your grammar is also a real joke, fix it before someone thinks of you as an even bigger idiot.

  • @startug grammer being joke is much better than being a murderer.

  • @NasimATBird Pretty much anything you do wrong isn't ranked, being a hypocrite is just as bad as being a murderer, and vice versa. You're a sick fuck, aren't you?

  • @startug We r people of future so most people have hard time understanding us. its like asking a caveman to describe what a pc is

  • Thank you for video!! It is some what old school, and it's proper... What are the benefits of dry plucking vs. Scalding and plucking also you need a sharper knife,lol my pocket knife is so sharp I wouldn't need shrub sheers but I may have more time on my hands than you..

  • LMFAO the bird is stronger tha you man

  • FUCK U MAN LEARN THE RIGHT WAY TO KILL THINGS SMITH AND WESSON 500 TO THE HEAD :) HAPPPY THANKSGIVEING :)

  • 7:56 i have seen pornography that looked just like this.

  • How's this humane? Ass.

  • We are dispatching our first turkeys tomorrow and are going to follow your instructions precisely - thank you SO much for being so detailed! Viewer longtail4711 asked about keeping the turkey and you mentioned you put it in ice water with salt for the first night and then in the fridge.  Canadian thanksgiving is just one week away. My questions are: how much water and how much salt? Is it soaking in a plastic tub? How many days will it keep in the fridge? thanks again for mentoring!

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  • Thank you Vern. Really thorough and drastically different from how I WAS going to do it. I'm butchering a huge Bronze in my backyard in Central Oregon today. Wish me luck.

  • cant you find a faster way to do that, like shoot with a slug gun through his head?

  • @scruffypete1 i would rather chop his head off with a ax

  • i get ready to kill sone for Nov i have 4 to to do

    I live in Yelm wa on Canal rd se any way wirt me back on my page pls so we can talk or meet pls

  • The weight streches the neck so the blood won't fly everywhere. The bird will try to lift its head and that is just cruel. You can't chop it's head off when it is upsidedown. When it's upsidedown the blood runs out for a faster kill. Thanks for the remark. Any other questions, I'll be glad to answer. :)

  • I'm training to be a butcher so I really dont give a fuck but honestly, you could have cut more of the neck off or used those garden snippers to cut the head off. Like really fuck that's a prick move. They have brains you know, a fucking fruit fly can feel pain so this thing wasnt having fun

  • @900bigd

    Then maybe you should take some notes Mr. Butcher.. By the way you talk and the language you speak it doesn't surprise me one bit with your choice of career. At least have enough common sense as your fruit fly to understand there will always be pain, and even with the head completely off the bird will still kick and flap its wings.. I'm sure you will learn about that in Chapter 2 of your class though.. This is a great video to show how to butcher at home with little pain and suffer.

  • Very nice and helpful video. Thanks alot for posting :D

  • Good video - never saw it done with a weight before (we only did chickens) I have seen a video where they used a large open ended cone to hold the birds when they killed them to keep them from flopping all over:)

  • IS ur dog eating everything down there?

  • The reason for the weight is it holds his head straight down otherwise the bird would hold his head up and not bleed properly and then the blood would go everywhere. At least I can control the majority of the bleeding by the weight and holding the wings. ---Thanks for the response, any other questions , email me. :)

  • The main reason you don't let the bird flop around is the meat bruises easy. Hanging upside down drains ALL the blood to one central area. This is the most humane way of butrchering without damageing the meat.

  • @yelmtornadoes

    Wouldnt just chopping its head off while its hung like that be a better option? The weight wouldnt be needed and would be a less messier option all together

  • We used to chop the head off cleanly. The heart continutes to pump out the blood. When it stops flopping we'd hang them upside down to continue draining the blood. There was never any blood in the meat like you see in commercially slaughtered birds. With respect, I find this method unnecessarily cruel.

  • so stupid

  • @bestozesto --What's stupid about it???? Make your remarks known so we all will know your thoughts. Thank you

  • @yelmtornadoes he shouldn't have held the bird and let it bleed on its own, what's the use of weight anyway when he ultimately has to hold he bird and ruin his clothes

  • Thank you for this very informative video! I'm starting my first flock this year, not to far from you here in Buckley. Thanks again, nicely done!

  • wow you're a strong man. i needed 2 guys to hold down a tom! nice video though, very informative!

  • Great vid bud! I'm hungry now!!

  • Could you shoot the bird in the head? Would that be faster for the bird? Less suffering?

    Not the most pleasant subject matter, but thank you for showing us this how-to. Very important skills almost lost to modern folk.

  • @SaviourSole the reason why you bleed them like shown, is because the death is near instant, but not so catastrophic that the heart stops beating immediately. this allows the heart to pump all the blood out of the carcass. also despite the way it looks, it's actually much less painful for the bird. i've never seen the wire method for weighting them down. what i've seen is a noose that's hung over the birds neck, and just as soon as its tight, the cuts are made. hope this helps

  • @JAROSLAVAGINA

    Oh, thank you for the explanation. That is very reasonable.

  • Urggggghhhhh I can't breathe....aggggurggghhhh..i'm dying.... My throat, my throat.. I'm bleeding

  • @debi5058

    Good. Time for dinner!

  • cut helf neck

    then let it move to exit all blad

    dont rest it

  • Thanks dude for the info!

  • Why did you kill the turkey so terrible slowly????

  • mickeyelsalsero: what are you laughing at? A dying turkey is funny?

  • @debi5058 first of all you prude, i'm laughing at how the turkey was giving the guy a hard time. second of all, i'm sure this turkey did not suffer his or her whole life prior to slaughter. Unlike commercial turkeys. It's called being at the top of the food chain. There are other more horrible things than killing a turkey. Try kids shooting kids.......spouses or bf/gf killing each other due to ignorance. Think before you post dummy.

  • i don't think this was a humane killing. Try hanging upside down with a weight around your neck and with your throat slit.

  • 2:24 LMAO!!! Looks like the turkey is holding u!

  • @catwoman9652 Won't quite be the same-- but have fun-- I do that with wild game though :)

  • @catwoman9652 Won't quite be the same-- buty have fun-- I do that with wild game though :)

  • Just curious, why not just cut off the head?

  • This is how my family butchers our chickens and turkeys every year... the only difference is we never torch the pin feathers off until I've gutted them.. because I find that torching tightens the skin up, and especially with smaller chickens, putting my hand inside to gut them makes the skin tear all along the thighs and alongside the breast. Waiting until after they're gutted ensures that hardly any skin tears. Just my two cents. ;)

  • @NatureLover987 Hey glad to hear were prety close-- I've never had a problem with the skin tearing-- I butcher 30 to 50 fryers a year --I have never torched them, only turkeys-- Enjoy the fresh birds-- nothing like them :)

  • Just finished my turkey kill. Thanks for preparing me for that sheer strength of that bird when it convulse. Even being prepared, I held it tight but keep losing grip. Since it's my first kill, I'm surprised I didn't gag or vomit while gutting it. For some reason I feel like I was in the store bought turkey mode while touching all those icky parts. I guess that works for me.

  • @MrCcheath - Hey it gets easier the more you do it-- You know when the "power" is coming---- Good luck in the future with your birds-- nothing like a home grown fresh bird !!!

  • RIP tom the turkey

  • lol hes getting payback by hitting u while hes still alive

  • Great video, Vern, but you skipped over the part I was most interested in seeing -- what does the cut look like before you start pulling out the gizzard, etc.?

  • @toddlohenry --Thanks for the positive----:) You make a cut above the tail to the tip of the breast bone --make a circular cut just big enough to put your hand in-- then everything else is a piece of cake :)

  • Super!!! I'm glad it helped--- How long did it take you? Can you improve on the video? I figured 10 minutes per pound with stuffing-- Or 185 with thermometer in the thigh--- 160 with thermometer in the middle of the dressing-- So with dressing around 7 hours-- Oh you already have it cooked-- How long did it take-- Was I close?? :) 

  • Thank you very much for your awesome and informative video. We just finished up butchering our first Tom using your techniques... 47.5 lbs. of fresh turkey will be enjoyed by the family this Sunday afternoon. By the way, how long does it take to cook a bird that big? Thanks Vern from Lake Lawrence...

  • Page.2 i would love to have fresh turkey for tanksgiving but it just we can't have real turkey in are backyard i just don't whant to see the turkey in pain and suffering and thats the reasen that buy dead turkey at walmart happy tanksgiving!!!!

  • @SilverBomb2000 --Hey not a problem--- This is one of the best ways to butcher a bird-- So many chops the head and other ways which I don't want to mention. You don't want to even think about the slaughter house-- You would probably never eat another bird.. If nothing else it is educational.. Good luck in the future :)

  • Hi i am sorry that i said that it just when somebody is buchering a nice bird its just so hard just to look at the bird a just let it die and just eat it! when somebody is buchering a animal i just can't take it it is just painful to just see the animal in pain and just let it suffer this is the thing that make me upset !

    P.S. the next letter is on next comments!!

  • What about the beak?????

  • @tashload --What about the beak??? I have a 10# weight in it to stretch the neck-- Is that what you meant???

  • i just love ur vid!!! And the way u explainn and show !! awsome!! cant wait for thanx giving!! Happy thanx giving to u and ur family!!

  • @ChangingPlanet1 Thanks,, I just butchered yesterday 44# tom--- It was 20 degrees and snow on the ground-- Got a little bone chilling until I gutted it out,, then my hands warmed up :) U 2 have a great Thanksgiving for we all have lots to be thankful for!!!

  • I will never touch a live turkey or a live chicken because i am NOT a Bucher guy! i just go to the store and buy the turkey my self insted of killing it my self it is a Pain to kill a live bird!

  • @SilverBomb2000 Your choice but when you have a FRESH bird NEVER FROZEN it is worth every bit of it-- NO comparison---- Frozen birds have no flavor-- My opinion though-- Have a great holiday!!!

  • Great educational video. I am about to butcher my own 6 turkeys before christmas. I appreciate the lesson.

    A kind thank you from Vancouver Island for posting this.

  • @international660  Good luck to you and Enjoy :)

  • The ending was so funny.. oo thats a small one!

  • @Eriksuns89 Yeh that was one of the smaller ones-- I just butchered one Sunday that was #38. I have 2 that are around #50, they will be going to turkey heaven in a few weeks--

  • Thank you SO much for posting this! This is very informative and helpful for when I need to start doing this. It looks like I'll need a sack or something to help contain those wings, I know I'm not going to have the strength to hold onto it.

    How long do you rest the meat before cooking?

  • @longtail4711 I'm glad you liked it-- I soak it in ice water and salt overnight at the minium. After that it's ready for the oven or fridge. I never have a frozen bird-- Fresh is so much better!!!

  • I cried when I saw this video.

  • @WerewolfGirlMia

    I'm sorry:( Just think what the other turkeys go thru that you see in the stores! Or how they slaughter beef. That is cruel--- This is the best way to do a bird where they don't get the "death" hormone-- Believe me, once you tasted a home grown organic bird, the ones in the stores taste like paper with NO flavor-- Thanks anyway for watching!!! :)

  • @WerewolfGirlMia I'm sorry- but it is realty and one of the best meat on the planet if it is raised right-

  • I went after a wild one this year, and while I called one in, I never shot... I thought about raising em, but Im sure they are loud, messy, mean, etc? Ive had only meat rabbits and cats and dogs... Never turkeys.

  • @HunterCook15 Believe me once you have a FRESH bird and frozen one never taste the same-- All my birds are free range and organially grown

  • Why do you not wrap a bungee cord or rope around the bird confining the wings from flapping?

  • @TheMrsVolfie -- Well it's like this-- It's hard enough to get a rope around the feet let alone the whole body. Also if you can't hang onto the bird the weight in the mouth will go wild from the birds nervous system. You will really be surprised how strong those birds are. If there is a easier way, believe me I would be doing it. Thanks for your comments any more will be more than welcome.

  • @TheMrsVolfie It is very tough to do because the bird won't stay in one place for long.. A person can tie them if they are able to do. That is the way I've always done it-- Working on my pecks :)

  • good to know

  • What a Beast, Can't wait for the "Vern vs. Grizzly Bear" video.

  • @Reptilesmurf Hey you never know-- Vern vs. moose, deer, and coon coming to the nearest U tube soon LOL

  • Intricate process brother Vernon...can't believe the process involved~Sharon

  • Intricate process brother Vernon...can't believe the process involved~Sharon

  • Intricate process brother Vernon...can't believe the process involved~Sharon

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