 Ladies and gentlemen welcome on back to the tree house Sombra note today because we are going to be catching cleaning and cooking A backyard chicken now. This is not something I particularly want to do I had gotten some unsex chickens and ended up with Some great hens. I really like then ended up with Three roosters first. It was it was really cool. Everyone was getting along pretty well and as they've gotten a little older Roosters are about a year old now. They're really starting to fight a lot. So These are named unfortunately mr. Penny and Colonel Sanders They're the two big roosters and they're fighting now for a while Mr.. Penny mr. Penny would just beat up Colonel Sanders all the time beat them up every day and Colonel Sanders would just take it take it take it one day one day recently about A couple weeks ago. He woke up and said I am not taking this this crap for mr. Penny anymore And he started thrashing him Colonel Sanders. He's got an eye injury. He's his eyes all jacked up I'm afraid when they're gonna peck each other's eyes out and scratch each other to the point where one of them is going to expire or lose An eye or a comb or a waddle or something something bad I've got actually got two roosters that we're gonna cook up today. I've got a frizzle Which is a useless little rooster. I thought it was gonna be a hen and then we've got mr. Penny so Colonel Sanders will be the lead rooster here at the Brackley roost and he will be the guardian from all these backyard predators all that kind of stuff He is the bigger rooster. He is the dominant rooster right now The hens love him. You know the hens just love him. We like him too It's gonna be for the better got some useless eaters essentially. So this is mr. Penny. This is the guy that we're gonna be consuming Today he doesn't even know it look how crazy that is This is the other guy that we're going to be pick up because he's just useless. I'm walking sideways I think there's something wrong with him That chicken right there is the only chicken in this roost this coop that I've never touched He seems like he'd be easy to pick up. But when you get close to him, he turns in turbo mode All right, I know you already think you're the man, but you're gonna be the guy Colonel Sanders is actually he's pretty He's a pretty sweet rooster. He has he has kicked me a few times when he was Not getting the food. He was last on the ladder to get food When mr. Penny was kicking him around that's no longer the case. We are trying to make some more chickens I have a broody hen which happens to be a frizzle Let's check it out in here See what we got cracking Hopefully no eggs cracking there. She is Got one of the prairie bluebell Popping one out right now But this frizzle right here. She is sitting on a clutch of eggs. She's got a dozen eggs And she has been broody for about a month, but about a week ago. I just Gave her some eggs. I was like, okay, get this get this out of your system We're about to take out some chickens. So maybe we'll we'll get a few more and you know what? It's this is so weird to me for some reason. It's like I've cleaned a bunch of animals I've you know, I've hunted a lot and brought animals home, but Chicken it's just kind of weird. It's like you eat chicken all the time So many places you're just eating jigging jigging chicken from the grocery store, but a backyard chicken catching it Cleaning it cooking it that is that is foreign to me folks So we are going to learn about it today and we are going to be putting mr. Penny On the pellet grill over here You may be asking yourself. Well, how are you gonna do it man? How are you gonna? How you gonna take about a guillotine what? Well, we got a stump right here got a good old-fashioned stump We'll get ourselves a little chop chop blade and Well, bam, that's how we're gonna do it right there. I don't know how many chickens we'll get out of our next Clutch that we have. I want a couple more hens Because right now I pretty much consume almost all the eggs every day I usually get three or four and I eat like three eggs every morning when I'm home When I'm out fishing camp and I like eggs for breakfast every morning So having a couple more hens would be great But if we get a couple more roosters out of it let them grow up to about a year like they are now and Let's guess what chicken dinner It's like they know Know something's up. He's like why do they why do you have a pot dude? Why are you heating that pot up? Why am I eating that pot up? Well, so I don't I did not know how to Properly pluck a chicken Until last night when I looked it up. My mom had told me Justin, I think you're gonna have to have to put that chicken in some hot water to get all the feathers I was like mom that no I don't you got to put it in water I've heard about 150 is optimal and then you put it in there for just a little bit to soak the feathers kind of get the The skin soft or the feathers will pluck out very easily pull it out Pluck them all out and then we're going to be cooking Chicken right here. So I've got a bucket to sort of drain Drain the blood and drain the juices Then we'll get the pluck the pluck on once we get it All the innards removed I'm gonna take it upstairs OSG is gonna give me a spice combo and then we will put it right here Look at these spurs, man Spurs are crazy You could really do some damage with me right now. So you know that you know that old expression Yeah, you know, you know the one I'm talking about like a chicken with its Head cut off that's real holy cow So I've seen like the industrial cones that you get that you put the the chicken inside of that and their head is like sticking out and you can kind of drain the juices and all that stuff I can see that being so much better than what I just did but You know just backyard. I'm using just a piece of scrap leather grabbing by the dome and You know that way his eyes are covered up and everything and then I kind of protect my hand this other chicken this frizzle chicken I Do not like him at all. He's bitten me and scratched me and all that stuff. So This is not gonna be a problem Emotionally mr. Penny Yeah We get we get little this other one doesn't even have a name which is great. No No bond there Pitiful little crow. Okay See if I can get this guy. It's like he knows He just looks so dope you Weird walk sideways and then you try to grab me and he turns into you saying bolt. It's crazy All right, we're just waiting for the water to get down to 150. It's like I heated it up a little too much It's at 160 right now And let's take our little boy a little guy here Who I think you know since he's a frizzle to begin with these feathers are gonna be really easy to To take off they're not even really feathers. You're just kind of quills We'll dunk him in here. Just be a good trial runs my first time Dunking the chicken Didn't even have to push him down there. You just sank right to the bottom. Wow I don't know how to do this, but I'm just gonna let it soak for a little bit One minute Yep coming out pretty smooth. All right So this is gonna be like a little Cornish in Cornish in size. That's fun. All right We'll get this guy totally plucked and then we'll move on to chicken too as far as I know this is this is the first Frizzle chicken catch and cook on the books on the internet so Flare beat you to it. So this is this just kind of sucks This is not the best I'm hoping the other one's gonna be easier Hopefully mr. Penny's gonna be a little easier merging my bird This is going to be satisfying If he tastes good, we're gonna cook this thing without refrigeration It's nothing. I mean, we're just gonna put some seasoning on a small oil and slap it on This woodwind right here and just go for it. So this is about as fresh as it can get It's crazy too is their uh, their little Skin on their feet starts to peel off You know, you know how your skin gets pruny if you ever take a bath It's like that and then it just peels right off and then they have You know white feet underneath really puts in the perspective of those uh trips to Chick-fil-A This is how you got to do it back in the day right here. I'm just gonna try to do this Fast as possible for it just really cools down Right now it kind of looks like one of those chihuahuas with no hair Yeah, there was definitely some plumage. That was tough to get But we're just gonna go with what we got right now might be a couple stragglers on there What am I standing in you may ask this is a garden bed that I built for Stephanie for mother's day Uh, she really wanted one. So I built one for this is going to be my cleaning station for right now Uh, never cleaned a chicken. Do I start at the vent or do I start at the neck? That is a great question All right, we can see all the innards So we're gonna try to get these out one fail swoop I mean when I woke up this morning I was like, man You know what today's the day I'm gonna have to get after those roosters I was envisioning it being kind of tough and this is uh This is that part right now There's some gizzards we go cat fishing with That gun toughies some toughies right there. All right, let's see about these feet I'm just gonna cut them at that joint. I think they should probably split out Chicken foot go take a great time to come out over the kids. I know Well, you know, we saw you from way up at the you know, emmy's bedroom way up there So we saw him cutting mr. Penny up from way up there, you know emmy's bedroom And she's like, hey, it's mr. Penny So thankfully she wasn't freaked out. Otherwise we would not be down here. I'm not gonna lie. This is this is difficult The anatomy of a chicken is hard. I was having I was like I don't get it I was trying to get in there and like scoop from both ways It's very difficult to get the little heart and the lungs and everything out there You know, there's not much space because you know in the grocery store It just all comes packaged. You just reach your head and there scoop it all out and go away. This is not how it happened Kind of figure it out We're gonna eat him and he was he was kind of being mean This this guy's the worst because he really didn't have feathers to begin with So there's like I don't want to eat him there's just quills in there and he's like the size of a cornish I don't know about him I don't think he's gonna be good at all Because he was just nasty looking. He wasn't appealing looking. He wasn't and he looked kind of something was wrong I had no problem grabbing him and uh What did the other chickens do did they freak out? They saw mr. Penney and they did freak out. They freaked out I saw I wonder he was he was hopping around like a frog It was wild. I wonder what they're gonna do like to like how they're gonna treat you Are they gonna respect you or they're gonna be terrified of you? I don't I don't really think it It made me realize that a chicken's brain Is is like reptilian. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah Like they are I don't think they're connected with us at all. It's not like a dog. Like it is just You know, there's not much functioning going on up there. Well, I guess that's good, right? I mean, I'm not gonna lie. It smells like the chicken's like whenever I'm you know, you're in the raw chicken meat section Yeah, yeah, it does the raw chicken meat does not smell good. I will say yeah, it's not Like raw steak, you know, it's kind of got like a irony. You're like, yeah, it smells good raw chicken Not good. So anyway, I'm using your flower bed by the way. I see that It's a nice little station for you. Yeah, it's kind of nice. I think you need to add a shelf Like right there. It's so too You put tools in it. Thanks. Hey, thanks. Yeah, I agree. So anyway, uh, let's fire up this grill Let's get this party started. So this is this is kind of interesting Babe, you've probably never seen this before but like when you heat up the chicken this this feet off the skin Comes off, you know how people eat chicken feet? Like you peel the peel that off like scales and then it's clean underneath like all the way down to the toenails By the way, look at this spur That is a big spur Oh my gosh, yeah, that's like a big old canine tooth. It's a good time for him to go OSG was kind enough to get us some herbs from the garden sage Reggito rosemary And she melted us up some butter. So I'm gonna go ahead By the way probes putting the probes in um Extremely difficult if that is indie any indicator of how tough these birds are going to be Uh, we got we're going to be chewing got the pellet grill set on 365 Just going to lather these up with some butter. They're already I've already got olive oil on them with some herbs some spices But I'm going to go ahead and just give them a little bit more The great thing about a pellet smoker is I have cooked Some questionable pieces of meat on here and they've turned out excellent It makes them tender I would say if you're going to eat a lot of wild game This is probably one of the best things you can invest in pellet smokers are just so easy easy to cook wild game But this is a backyard chicken and it Should be decent, but I'm concerned about the toughness. Mr. Penny was a fighter Fighter pumped up on testosterone Uh, he's probably gonna be really chewy Just poke me in the butt with the broom I feel like we're one of those uh, what's that picture? Oh, yeah, the farmer. Yeah, good. I need a pope You need a pitchfork. Yeah, exactly a pitchfork. But yeah, we do we actually have like a small homestead I guess you could call it with uh with the veggies coming the raisins. We got some chickens Yeah, yeah, we do. Do you think it's gonna actually taste good? I think the taste will be all right. I think the toughness That's gonna be the key. I think if we had a lot of time, I think it would brighten it for two days Yes, because by the way, did it look so tough? Yes, I was actually gonna do that for this video Stephanie left for a girls trip uh for the weekend So it's my fault. No, no, no second fault. I thought I could I I thought I could come in here and be like You know what? I'm gonna get this video where I cook the chickens while watching two kids. It's gonna be no problem No, I I didn't I didn't get anything done except for that garden box You actually got a lot done while I was gone and managed to keep the house clean. I'm honestly impressed Thank you. So they were both mixed breed chickens, but Colonel Sanders does have some Um, leg horn in him. So that's like the white chickens that lay a lot of eggs. So I'm thinking offspring wise Probably better with him Look, look, he's laying down right now on the on the roosting bar. I have never seen him do that He's never had the opportunity to do it. He's happy. He's used to getting Smacked around by mr. Penning always being on guard. He's taking a rest right now. I feel good about it I was I was a little questionable at first. I felt kind of bad, but Well, and emmy's good with it too. Like she literally saw you out here Cutting mr. Penning. Yeah, I did not mean for that to happen. Well, I mean, no, it's fine. She By the way, when should I add this? I would cook it with it Just laying on top or yeah, and I would use that butter very generously. Yeah slap it on there Okay, well, it's not supposed to catch fire I don't know what to do here Because honestly never Never happened before this side over here got rocks pretty hard Fire I think this one we're all right Got ourselves a steamy Steamy chicken over there and it's quite hard I think uh, I think it could take a broad head right now Cooked it too fast But it was tough to begin with I really knew before I plucked the feathers. It was gonna be tough You know sitting there looking at mr. Penny's like all just Muscled up cooked a lot of chickens in my life on the grill and And the oven and stuff and you know, you're handling the chicken And uh, just this just felt completely different. This could have something to do with not resting it either Like not putting it on ice doing a brine Things like that I've I've run into this issue before Yeah, this is probably it I've run into this issue before with Uh other wild game like deer Where you cook it up right away and you think man, it's going to be the best because it's so fresh And you don't let the meat Rig a mortify if that's a word you don't let the Inzymes or whatever it is inside of the meat start to break down and and get a little soft That's when things get chewy Uh, so I've seen that in deer where it's just like absolute jerky Fresh um Think so I think that's what we're dealing with here. So This is my bad. I don't think I did mr. Penny justice on it, but we're gonna we're gonna get him a taste and See how yes those 165. I mean it feels like I did mr. Penny Temperature-wise pretty good one side got absolutely crisp. I mean got burned. That's okay, but this side over here might be all right I think we should just yeah go for the dark meat. Go for the dark meat. Oh That looks really dark Looks like Uh, well, there's there's something there's something with that. Hold on. It looks like scary dark The darker the meat means like the more Like muscle it Well, whoo. You have a lot of muscle. You have a lot of muscle. All right, there's a leg That is a tough-looking leg. Let's let's get a shot of this because when they're farm raised I don't think they have a whole lot of stress like it's a very easy life for them Yeah, that's insane. We got prison birds or what? Yeah, well, they were fighting a lot So this is that dark meat on the rear end like we're talking about like that leg Is it looks like squirrel leg? It's how dark it is It looks cooked though. All right, let's let's check out the breasts. Let's see what the breast section I don't have much breasts Jesus popping Okay, this is the breast of mr. Penny That it looks cooked. All right a little piece for you and I Here we go, mr. Penny It was a good run Not it not it That's not it. Oh, no, if you say that's not it. Is there something just wrong tasting about it? Try it No, I don't want to Oh gosh, it looks super. Yeah Soup. No, I don't know about that. I can't do that I can't even cut that you can't even do it. Uh, I can't no I'm not doing that Let's try like the breast was it looked good, but wow chewy dark leg Did I ate it? Absolutely not It feels like it's not even cooked What like it's cooked, but it feels like it's not even cooked if you were served that at a restaurant You would slap the person. Oh my gosh. I wonder what the little one's like if mr. Penny is that bad Okay I caught a lizard for real all by myself. You did. Where is it? It's outside in my tree house Oh, that's a good spot for it. What color was it? It was green green. You caught a lizard? It's a green and old You got me. I was holding his tail Yeah, I was I'm quick at catching fast things. Did his tail stay on or did it come off? Well, did you know that those lizards if you grab their tail They have a defense mechanism where their tail will come apart It'll They'll lose their tail. No growing new one. Did you know that? Like, oh, I I already know that on paper. That's good. Hey, the good thing is You have lizards on their pants. I do those are slizzards from google squad.com or you can use code lfg Save 10% check out. I'm going to be honest with that. I've eaten. I've eaten a lot of stuff from the woods There's something wrong. That is not taste right Like as soon as the teeth hit it, it's like you get the smell You get the sensation that you're eating something wrong It just yeah, it tastes like it's not cooked. Even though I've probed it many times made sure we're over 165 This is this is not it. This is not it guys. I I feel bad. I feel terrible really that I mean it looks good I tried to make this work It's okay Not gonna lie guys. I've eaten Raw liver In Africa before that's been laying out in the sun I've eaten some wild stuff in You know in the land of doing gouging videos Uh, and that was the most unedible thing that I've ever tried like immediate Tongue body was like nope. Can't even chew it taste terrible It was not good. So It was kind of shocking quite honestly, but The roost seems happier more copacetic More more unity around the one rooster and the six hens. So that is the good news about it, but I am I've never done this before but I I'm just gonna throw those chickens into the woods and You know let the coyotes Take part in it or use some for catfishing You know, I'm planning on doing a little catfishing next But so we got some eggs that are being sat on by a broody hen right now. Hopefully she hatches them in about 20 days and we will have some more chickens here so I can get some more eggs And if we do have some roosters if I have to uh take another one out, I will be letting that thing sit on ice and brining it At least 24 hours before that thing touches a grill It's free. You got it All right, be gentle be gentle Nice fat little lizard. How did you catch that thing? I don't know. You got to be really fast I am I am you're just really fast, aren't you? Anyone see me climb up on that tree again to put it back All right, sometimes I let my favorite things go and I want to catch And then I guess put them back. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. It's a good thing to do I sometimes I catch some fish that I really like and then I put them back You want to go fishing with me catfish? Okay Is today a perfect day? Uh, it's a little stormy today Yeah, maybe later. Hey, I also got a ladybug in here. It's my little woods girl right there I love that little girl. All right guys. I'm going to sign it off. You know what to do I will see you on another outdoor adventure