Raising over 100 meat birds for the freezer! Chicken processing and food security. 

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Processing meat for the family is a good thing. Teaching the kids from the beginning to respect the animals is a very important thing. So many people just look at the animal as an animal. They are living things too. Thank you for being such great teachers. Love watching your videos. 💜

I always love how you show respect for the animals and pass that on to your children.

Going back and watching this video 10 months later: it's one of my favorites from the last year! Love the team work and the b-roll sections

Something comforting in watching your family, Annie. Another great video! 💜

My wife and I (and the kids) have 47 CCX to butcher in 2 weeks. I've enjoyed your channel's content and this one has been very helpful.

I used one of your other videos to learn how to properly butcher a chicken. I found it much easier to cut into the jugular vein if I first pulled out a few neck feathers where I was going to make the cut. Instead of cutting through the feathers, just one quick slice and the cut is finished. I have a fairly large hand, which makes it difficult to scoop out the guts.

What an awesome video!! So glad to see the kids involved and learning.. wish I was taught this as a kid..

You people are my inspiration! I really appreciate you taking the time to document culling day for us to watch. Better than 95% of the meat that finds its way to my dinner table I raised here on my humble homested. but 100 chickens in one day, amazing.

Thanks for sharing with all of us your family and the way we all can have clean and healthy meat for our own families. God's blessing over you all.😊

Will the class be available on line? I just commented on another video how your husband is an excellent teacher!

We did our first session on the weekend. I completely understand about not wanting to eat chicken now. Definitely a skill to learn. Beautiful video. New sub.

Wow you guys know what an ice bath is! Most amateur cooks don’t know what it is. And I’m glad the kids help! It teaches them the value of work.

I love seeing how your family truly appreciates the animals and how your children respect the animals. I absolutely hate any type of hunting for sport in which the animals are killed for no reason other than pictures. I want to one day be able to do this.

That was amazing! Nice work.

Well done Heartways fam. Looks like a well run set up . Thank you for sharing lovelies ❤

Hi guys

It's been very interesting to me how the more we've done this we've had a shift in perspective. The first time was really hard and the smell got to us and I wondered if we would even be able to eat them. Now, while it's still hard, my mindset is different. I think it's maturity in the whole homesteading life that comes together to help make it happen.

Thank You 😊. I remember doing this as a child. Good 👍 job.

I would love to raise my own chickens

Good stuff! I will have to get the crew together to do mine in a few months! LOL. Good job crew!

Great video, its a huge job. But I bet its worth it.🌻

Put a trailer tounge on the pen and use a quad to move it very carefully

Thank you for this video.

Awesome job you guys! We have done meat birds a few times and have some that will be ready in about 5 weeks. It's helpful to watch your video!

This is awesome to see to be honest, love the how the fams work together too

You all are amazing, that is one thing I can not do, I can help process wild game venison, bear etc. but for some reason I can not process chicken.. thanks for doing what you do.

Great video.

You and your family look like you’re living your best life. I love that and I bet those chickens are delicious. Nutritious food as it was supposed to be, raised naturally and on the land with love. Ya know how ppl will say about, “how delicious that meal was”, right away someone (usually the cook😉) will say, “it was cause they cooked it with love”. I’m a firm believer in that the very best meals come from animals and fresh fruit and veg that the finished meal came from, knew nothing but love & kindness. That’s why it’s so tasty and good for you. Animals that are stressed out taste bad to me. I stopped buying conventionally raised food a long, long time ago. I am pretty old so I remember a time when all the meat around, grocery store or the local butcher, was also raised and processed local on small family farms. Not anymore, you don’t know where it’s coming from or how it’s treated. That said I’ve seen enough of factory farming to KNOW, it’s not safe, it’s not healthy for us or our planet and it most certainly isn’t good for these animals we snag off the grocery store shelves. So remember, anyone with enough time to waste on reprimanding you for your way of life isn’t worth a second thought. I’d even go so far as to say, those are the same ppl who have no problems whatsoever buying factory farmed meats. I really enjoyed this chicken playlist, now I gotta look at what other fun stuff you guys get up to. Thanks so much for sharing your life. I get to live vicariously through you 😂❤ Stay safe and blessings to you & yours🙂🐓🦃🐇 Ohh afterthought… Did you ever consider raising meat rabbits? I knew a old woman who raised them. They were so delicious. More work than chickens, however I love rabbit meat so for me it would be worth it, if I could do the work involved in raising them. They’re also a bit more costly investment wise for the return. But in my dreams if I was able I’d want at least 8-10 a year. And I’m just a family of 1.

We did a few when I was a kid the lady did it put the birds neck under a board and pulled. Then let it fly, it would for a few moments then we had to pluck them. Im glad it was just 10 of them

I like to see the kill cone bucket make lol

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We have processed ours today. Thank you for always sharing. Do you just give the dogs the pucked heads and all ? Looking to feed these to our dog .

Where do you get the de-feather machine?

We are retired and have had chickens for eggs for several years and then decided to hatch baby chicks for meat birds. The first time processing the birds was the hardest. We’re raising more birds again for meat.

I grew up butchering chickens. We didn't do cones. My grandpa chopped the heads off & tossed them. I've been chased by hundreds of headless chickens. But kids need to know where there food comes from... period!

I will never have a Cornish Cross on the place. Walking mushmeat.

You mentioned that you keep the feet and heads for the dogs…. Do you give them to them raw? This may seem like an silly question but I really want to incorporate more real meat into my dogs diet but scared to start. 😅

Hi! Do they sleep there on the ground? Shouldn’t they sleep higher off the ground?

I love chicken but I can't watch the processing.

My great grandmother used to ring the necks and throw them and they would flap all over or get an axe an just chop off the head.

I’m a cna of40 yrs it’s not how big or tall u are it a about the way u use ur body