Doing it Different This Time/ Homesteading on 14 acres 

Even if the new one isn't as fast as the older one, at least you can do two at a time or even more. So happy you were able to get another one since you are doing 8 workshops this year. I also think, if you are not already doing it, you should show them how to cut them in pieces. A lot of people not raised on a farm, have only an idea how to do that. It is a skill. Also quartering them for the grill...leg quarters and breast quarters. Please leave the little barn up until you are absolutely sure you have no use for it. Easier to take down later than have to rebuild it for sure. Y'all are doing so well on this new property. Have a Blessed day

This is awesome Jason, thank you for sharing!

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Can’t wait to see how well it works. We built the Whizbang and your right it was still expensive. I like that the new one is lower. I’m kinda short and it’s hard to see inside the barrel of ours unless your right up on top of it. Which can be messy. 😂

Maybe add some mass to the cooler so opening it doesn't just fill it with warm air. Barrels with water or some such, cooled down the day before, or buckets frozen if it gets that cold. Things should get cooled down quicker that way.

The hydrant you just replaced might have a cut off valve near the house. Just a thought.

If you need to learn, take this class! We took it last season & learned so much, but the company/ chatting was awesome! Jason puts up shade so you won't melt in the heat.

14 acres! Massive Increase from the Old home stead. Its awesome of you to connect with the community and share your knowledge. 182k subs and Growing you got this Brother. Ok watching ADs and the rest of the show.

Consider having an underground locator before trenching, just don’t want to hit anything trenching…

Hi Jason, Love all you are doing! How can I find out about your hands on chicken processing workshops? Are they open to the public?

Curious about how the plucker works, one certainly looks more heavy duty for long haul, but have to see.

Taking the time to plan this all out will definitely pay off. We just butchered our 94 birds last weekend. Definitely makes for a long day. Thankfully we had the help to make it happen!

Hi Jason, you have a well supplied and organized setup for your processing class. It's amazing that you will soon be hosting your first class at your new property. 👏👏 Take care. ♥️

“Farming and raising animals is an act of Faith” I’m sure you’ll figure everything out. I would defiantly set up under shade. I can’t wait to see how well your workshop goes wish we were closer we would sign up for one to learn more.

Sounds exciting

Looking forward to watching and sharing your video on chicken processing day with my son. Love how nice and green your farm is. Best wishes!

Very curioius about how this new plucker works. Seems too light?? like heavy laundry in the washer. Hopefully it works out great.

I would keep that building and add on to it. The original may be perfect for storing the butchering equipment behind lock and key and in place for every butchering you do. Simple to unpack and set up only a few feet away.

Maybe you have another well feeding the water at the separate smaller barn and since the power is shut off the pump won’t work. I’m worried that the new plucker will hold up as well as the stainless one but we’ll see. The advantage yo building one yourself is you can use parts made in America.

While we won't see you at your new farm.....my husband and I are very excited to see you guys in Durham in a couple of weeks at Grass Grazed! You, Lorraine and Penelope are such an inspiration and we can't wait to start raising our own meat!

Jason a permanent butchering station would be a game changer! I would leave the old building and add on to the back or side . I love your idea

If you get untreated wood, you can preserve the wood by burning it. I think it's called shoo Sugy bon or something like that.

Hopefully your new plucker lasts longer than mine did - worked great the first year but was pretty hopeless the next year!! Love your videos!!

We just processed Murray McMurray big red broilers today. It went very smoothly. This was my second time involved in processing and I’m a big fan of the big red broilers. Our homestead isn’t too terribly far from you. We are in South Carolina.

“Must be French” haha

We were told here in Georgia that you have to have a floor that you can hose off and sanitize to if you ever want to sell any butchered chickens. Just something to keep in mind it stinks to have to do things twice. 😕

Fragile is Italian my guy

Reading through the comments and lots of ideas! I LOVE this youtube Community!

You may not want to put it higher because the Center of Gravity will change and it could topple. Just a thought mate 👍🏼

Good evening. I love your new place. God bless. ❤

Hi Jason! Another amazing video! Curious what brand your old plucker is?

Hi.... Jason and Lorraine nice to see you, thank you for showing your video homestead chickens farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐣🐥🐕🐄🐖🌱🌺🌹🌿🌻🌼🌸🍀🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍

Looking forward to viewing the process again...we're not ready for a plucker..yet. We'll not process 50 birds? Which birds would you suggest? Something with more firm meat when eatten?

Hey Jason, Enjoy your videos. We are raising our 1st batch of meat bird and I have been looking at pluckers. What are your thoughts on the hatching time plucker?

In regards to building your own plucker... I infact did purchase the instructions and all items to make the whizbang plucker. And yes you are right it was more expe size it cost me almost $700, as I had to purchase everything, I had nothing old laying around. Having said that I would still pay more for my homemade whizbang and it did such an awesome job. In the past we have used yardbird brand and one that does on a drill, needless to say the whizbang removed 100% of feathers and there was no "feather cleanup" (removing feathers/pon feathers afterwards) as I had with the other pluckers. So yes it's not cheaper but it works way better in our experience.

Looking forward to seeing the processing day outcome as to which plucker is the fastest, the best 👌

I appreciate the low key, practical applications you've shown.

I cannot say that dressing chickens out was ever one of my favorite things on the farm… I remember the first time I was asked to T post down and killer chicken… I failed miserably at it for two reasons: I didn’t weigh enough even though I was old enough (I was petite for my age unfortunately, or fortunately for the chicken), & I looked into the chicken’s eye at the last minute and I had empathy for it and I just could not kill it… and my father took pity on me and told me I did not have to do it and he took over. I never was asked to kill chickens again… But that did not get me out of the jobs of plucking the scalded feathers from their bodies or singeing the legs of tiny feathers left behind or from cutting the chickens apart and freezing different pieces into different bags or sometimes actually a whole chicken in a bag. I love the way my mother cut up a chicken into this day that is exactly how I cut my chickens still. I go to peoples houses and they have a little tiny breast or the back is cut up weird and it’s hard to tell what the piece is. It’ll be interesting to see if you guys show on camera how to cut the chicken apart. But for me I couldn’t stand the smell of scolded/singed chicken so I think that was one of my worst days on the farm. But I am excited that you’re excited and I think if we would’ve had nice equipment like that it would’ve been a lot more enjoyable although, I still would not of liked the killing part… I just have a tender heart. My father never let us in the barn when pigs and cattle were being butchered as he wanted to treat his daughters like ladies and I thank him for that still to this day (even though he is in heaven and no longer with me). The last thing I’d like to say is I love how easily you make things and you do so by using whatever you have and what is available… Re-purposed seeing and reusing is so smart and that is how my father did things too… Very rarely was he buying brand new unless he absolutely had to. I also like the way you are constantly thinking ahead and how you might be creating something new or making things better than they are… I find your channel very interesting because of that. Keep doing what you are doing… you definitely keep me interested😊♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Good Morning...I am anxious to see the side by side comparison. I don't have a plucker yet and this one is from my home state of Delaware.

Does the plucker get the under the skin pin feathers. Do you remove the rubber finger to clean? I have hand plucked all my life and thought these machines to be the funniest thing , slapping chickens around. I just dont want people to think this is the only way to process chickens. Hand plucking takes about three minutes per bird.

There is a man here in Missouri that will Build you a ice maker specifically for a deep freeze. Just and idea for large volume of ice

I've always wanted to build a butcher building where each wall is a 12ft garage door. That way you can open and close any or all the doors for airflow.

Do you have a class on chicken butchering I can attend? Do you charge for these classes?

Solar set-up, and IBC totes/rain water catchment.

Gotta protect the wood hate when people don't protect the wood and don't store things right. Done right things like the cone stand will last 15 years no issue.

Butchering quail is fast and easy to do one takes less than 3 minutes start to finish. All you need is a pair of scissors and bucket of water and s garbage bag..

A couple passes with a single bottom plow behind a tractor boom trench done

💚 You're on your way to Processing Day! I look forward to seeing the side-by-side comparison. I haven't actually seen a chicken plucker in operation...yet 💚

So happy you got to move to a bigger area. It will be so nice once you get the house remodeled & all the other projects done & set up the way you want them.

Maybe get some primer and primer the kill cone station. It will work to keep the water out at least at the ends of the wood pieces

you would need two water hoses for the chicken plucker if testing side by side use.

Can I get in on the next chicken butchering on your new property, or are you full?

You guys should save the blood when you kill the chickens then you go get it on your garden or your grass

As a woman, I’m hoping the new one is the winner! Too heavy for me with the other one . Excited to see how it goes !

Curious about how you ate all those chickens from last year? 🤣🤣

I work at this company. Shout out to Delaware lol

Turn the barn into a chicken coop, good for main flock and maybe have a part for chicks

I love to see the chores you anticipate and how you are preparing the equipment for each. Now that you have all this property you have a new problem of where to station each activity. Who would have foreseen this as a problem?

Ive got the same kind of ' tractor ' lol

heya yep new place so differant setup

I never been excited on killing anything.

You can make a chicken plucker out of an old washing machine-

Wanting to know how to join your chicken work shop live here in North Carolina please let me know

I relly like the plucker. Hope it works out.

Frageelay made me laugh🤣🤣

Your videos have gotten to the point where I don’t want them to end!

No don't use treated, use Hardwood.

That looks like a good chicken plucker.

I hope u video the chicken cleaning

you can also use that old barn as a night house for the pigs

Do you have a video on your cool trailer ?

I’m excited for you too.

Appreciate the content.

Right on. You got it!!!

Jason, although feathers in the yard isn't a big deal, you can put a tarp under the feather chute to catch the feathers. Just a way to keep them contained and not have a big mess.

It’s a good plan

Awesome Jason!

My husband got me a gorilla cart for Christmas because I had worn out my Scott's green lawn cart. The gorilla is totally my tractor too! It is part of daily chicken chores, and saves my shoulders by hauling water. No permaculturist will tell you the truth, that you keep chickens in zone 2 because of the weight of carrying water🤣. Thanks for this vlog Jason. We appreciate all your hard work. I am building quail cages because. I have eggs on the way. Getting quail (again) Yay for self sufficiency!

Wow Jason 😲 look at YOU ❣️ YOU guys are all go go go👍 Who would have thunk it😃 you can be SO proud 👍👍👍

Egg-cited for processing day! The plucker comparison will be egg-citing too! Yes! A structure to cover you while you process, have piped in water & electric and everything set up up in one spot that stays put increases your efficiency! Blessings Abound!

It's the "mother plucker of pluckers"🥴😳🤪...I'll see myself out.

Delaware 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Jason, you and Lorraine are both so resourceful! There isn't anything, I think, that you two can't do! I'm always so impressed! I don't know what you used to do in California, but I am certain you both were meant to be homesteaders! It comes so natural to you both!👨🏻‍🌾👩🏻‍🌾🌱🌾🌱🌻🐔🐔🐔🐣🐤🐣🐓🐄🐄🐖🐖 *Do you think, a plucker could be made from a washing machine? Or at least the parts from one that doesn't work for washing clothes anymore? It might be a good way to recycle old washing machines 🤔

Thank you!

I can't wait to see the new one running. two weeks are around the corner. I would like to see your white painted wood panels in your new home. Can we know how soon? Love all the progress you've made. :) Remember a few months ago you were just dreaming about moving. Even though your garden looked fabulous. Soon your new tractor.

I’m so excited for you. Your ideas for processing sound pretty good

What a brilliant machine Justin- 2 Pluckers now so it will be less work & faster for you all. I agree I would like to learn a it more about cutting them in pieces etc. Great Video once again. Cheers Denise-Australia

What do you do with the chicken "craps"?

Jason try Solar power for your processing area... One panel should be good enough to power what you need for processing.

Love it ...

Thank you

I would be using large flat washers with those screws. All that vibration will probably damage the plastic or pull the screws through.

We grew in deep south Texas about 10 miles from the border in the 1950's We were 8 siblings. We had to help pluck and gut chickens after they quit flopping around in the south Texas dry dirt. . They were always full of fleas too. To this day, only 2 of my siblings eat chicken. My youngest brother who was the baby and didn't have to clean chickens and one of my sisters that had physical problems who also and never clean chickens. LOL

With the cool trailer do you plan on air cooling the birds? I've heard it tastes better than water/ice cooling...

Glad you've come across this plucker, we've been using this model for the past three years, drawn to it by the fact it's food grade plastic. We've been incredibly happy with ours! hope you are too.

I don't know that plastic tub doesn't look that durable. I'll be looking forward to the comparison.Also it's twice the price of the plucker I use that works great.

Ah yes, the meat balls meet the sauce episode. Are u gonna show the process, most folks don't, any who hope yr enjoying yrself! 💙🤙

Awesome

Glad you can do 2 or more chickens in the plucker. You are getting all organized at your new home. Fantastic. 💞

Hey that was really helpful and interesting. I am looking forward to seeing the follow Up. thanks.