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Awh man you throwing away the best parts. ☺️I love frying the neck gizzards heart and liver especially the liver. At least save the feet gizzard heart and necks for the stock pot.
So just a thought… a couple ways to do the deed Hang them by the legs from a string and cut the artery in the neck and they basically go to sleep Or put them in a processing funnel and cut the artery in the neck Both methods keep the chicken calm and prevents bruising the meat or breaking the bones
My father has a barrel fish scaler, it has plates with tiny pokes like the sides of cheese grater. Its great for scaling yellow perch and other pan fish.
I have a Yard Bird chicken plucker, which looks to be the same size as this Vevor unit...I would advise using it with 2-3 chickens in it at once...they whip around less which means less likely to damage the skin/meat...what a time savings though for sure!!! Also, the time the chicken spends in the hot water is key...needs to be long enough to loosen all the feathers, too short and they don't come out nicely...too long and you cook the skin and it tears easily in the plucker.
I would have to say you thru away one of the best parts of the chicken the Liver! Fried up they are the bomb! Also the necks are great for soup stock but I think raising your own chicken is great it’s way better than buying store meat filled with hormones and antibiotics not many people do this anymore Thanks for sharing your videos with us and God bless
So you're aware, in the US, hormones are only legal to use (and only in certain stages of growth) on beef cattle and sheep. It's explicitly illegal for hormones to be given to veal cattle, dairy cows, poultry, and pigs. A lot of farms give antibiotics throughout the life of the animals, though, except for a certain amount of time before slaughter (as mandated by the fda). Which helps bacteria mutate and form new antibiotic-resistant strains, like MRSA. Organic animals cannot have antibiotics ever, though, and I hate that - so if they're sick or hurt, even if it's easily treatable, they either get euthanized (or sent to slaughter, depending on what the problem is) or sent to a non-organic farm. I despise that. But the way we have such fast chicken growth and such huge chickens is because over decades and decades, we've carefully bred for the biggest and fastest-growing chickens. Meat chickens actually need to be slaughtered before a certain stage of growth, because they'll get so big and heavy they won't be able to walk, and be in constant pain. Which means that when vegans "rescue" meat chickens, they have to be euthanized sooner rather than later, anyways.
there are little circles of tender meat on the back side of the chicken. I've heard them called chicken oysters, backstrap, etc. It's honestly the best part of the chicken. When you cut off the thigh simply follow the dish of bone to cut the backstrap out with the thigh. In the video you cut right through it.
Wes, we always kept the giblets, heart, liver, etc. The 'etc.' includes the gizzard which needs to be butchered and have the lining extracted. I was exposed to included butchering for giblets from the time I was a kid and these were special treats when served (not so much the liver, but it was OK)
When I was in my 20's, I would stop at my favorite deli and get a little box of marinated chicken gizzards pieces. They were practically pickled and completely delicious.
Some recommendations from a former worker at a poultry abattoir. For the gutting all you need is a horizontal slice then reach in. The 'Shute' will just tear out. As for gall bladder immediately wash affected areas, throw out the affected areas and you can break down the clean pieces for consumption.
About 25 years i I lived with a farmer, his method was to insert a knife in the mouth to the brain, slit the thorough then hang by the feet from the clothesline while the bled out a when thru the death throughs, grusum but it did stop them breaking themselves. portioning the bird to cuts is just a mater of practice it will get easier and better the more you do it
I came here because I was curious how a plucker worked. It is a lot bigger and morbidly comedic than I anticipated, just a chicken corpse in a washing machine. 😂
In my city chicken legs can be steamed and the skin taste really good (with chili pepper, garlic and salty black beans), I know it sounds horrible in the west but it depends on how good you can cook it.
Most folks can't handle the truth about the killing of animals we eat including these chickens, cows, pigs, sheep, goats, fish, etc. Most of us are carnivores, pure and simple. Without meat protein mankind would not have survived. This type of video is mundane compared to assembly slaughter facilities. Truth is truth. This is how chickens are processed. Well done Wes
Man wish I had seen this when we processed our meat turkeys the other week. I had a heck of a time with the crop on them. I’ll be posting the video today of how we processed them. Always enjoy your videos bud!
Thank you for using your boy! Break down frases so he get parts of them, until he can take it progressively! Great job! Can you put 2-3 chicken in the plucker at once and it'll handle them easier or is it better to pluck them one by one?
You put the chicken in hot water to make it easier for you to remove the feathers, but you spray the chicken with cold water during the process. I think if we wash the chicken at the end we will get a better result. 😉
OH MY! Wes, save the heart, liver and gizzards (giblets) for me please. And throw the feet in with them. The giblets are good eating and the feet are great to throw in the pot when making bone broth. And I'll take the necks, backs, hunks of skin and the bones from boning out the breasts for broth too. You would be surprised how much meat comes off the back ..... and the necks. Grew up sucking the meat of the necks ... if I could get them away from my sister and my mom. My mom and dad were depression era kids ..... nothing got tossed. Everything (except the nasty innards) was used ..... it could make the difference in having enough to feed everyone in the family.
A trick for you when you slaughter the birds. Use a traffic cone. Put the bird into the cone head first before you cut their head off. Leave the bird in there until it has stopped moving this will prevent the bird from flapping its wings and breaking them and bruising the meat.
Does that plucker disassemble easily for cleaning? I've been debating getting this Vevor model versus the more open versions where the drum unclips for deep cleaning.
Remember well when we had a tree stump with two ten penny nails pounded into it and the head of the chicken was put between those nails before the axe did its thing - chickens were then left to flop around until their nerves gave out and the scalding began before the hand plucking. I bet the city folks are calling animal abuse people while eating their KFC bucket - lol.
You can raw feed all the necks, liver (gallbladder included), heart, gizzard and any bones, feet and skin to your dogs. I have raw fed my dogs this as their main food for years. If doing large volume dispatching and only have one dog or small dogs you can freeze portion sizes in zip style plastic bags and freeze. My pack of German Shepherds eat it frozen and thawed equally easily. Dogs and cats can only have raw chicken bones. They will digest them uneventfully. If you cook the bones they are like ground glass and dangerous to dogs or cats. My two cents.
Chicken feet are great for making stock/bone broth. The feet coming out of the plucker so clean would be a joy to use. Some of the best chicken broth I have made I used the feet ..... after I had to clean them (it's disgraceful that stores will put dirty chicken feet in the cases.)
@@vbgvbg1133 True. I remember being up on my grandma's farm while she was cooking down chicken bones, skin, feet and fat for soup broth and watching her sit at the table with a bowl of chicken feet, not quite cooked to death, carefully picking off the "toenails" (as we kids called them instead of claws), and then pulling the feet apart and putting a few aside, putting the bulk of them back into the pot, and then sitting sucking on the feet to get the goodies off of them. Grossed us kids out, but now as an adult, I do appreciate them. What's your opinion of pickled pigs feet? That was another one that my mom liked.
@@hickoryhillinthebigwoods-r759 The giblets are great in gravy ..... or just simmered til tender and the just eat with a fork ..... or yer fingers. Many, many ..... many years ago, there was a market a short walk where I worked. First time I ever had pressure cooked deep fried chicken (YUM) and pressured fried wedge cut fries ..... hand cut from baking potatoes ...... and the piece de resistance was the pressured fried breaded chicken gizzards ..... ambrosia, so tender, so yummy. Never had to worry about co-workers asking for a tasted .... they were grossed out at the thought of chicken gizzards ..... peasants that they were.
1 question and 1 statement: A. Do you think there's a way to use the chicken plucker and use less water? B. So you're aware, it's pretty common for vets to have to do surgery on dogs and cats who have gotten bone shards stuck in their mouths, throats, stomach, and/or intestines from bones they've been eating/chewing on
Heart's make such a lovely stew, better for stewing than any other part of the bird, it's such a shame tossing them. Liver i can understand since it tastes differently, and some people just don't like the taste, but heart tastes just the same as normal meat.
We got a plucker last year and love it. 2 birds in about 20 seconds makes rhe toughest part of the process a lot faster. We made broth with the chicken feet last year. It's full of collagen and pretty disgusting. We got our birds this year from a different hatchery and have been extremely disappointed. So far we have had more than 50% of our birds die despite doing things the same as we always have. We are ok because we still have e a few from last year but it's disappointing.
Wow! We've been using Hoovers and the birds have been great. We lost 2 out of 25 this time, which I did not think was unreasonable. One to wry neck and the other to unknown.
I find it much easier and faster to cut the breast meat from the carcass instead of separating the carcass into the two pieces then pulling the bone out. Cut down the center on either side of the breast bone then fillet it off the ribs. Quick and easy once you get used to it. Good job on the video. It's hard to process opposite for the camera.
Not the bed video from me to watch. Have had the flu and just no. When we finally get our homestead set up the plan is meat chickens. I told my daughter and her husband. I plucked enough chickens in my youth. I said I will feed them then cook them, but processing is up to them.
Usa una técnica muy similar para alistar un pollo/gallina/gallo a la que usa mi papá; yo no aprendí mucho y tampoco es que me guste, solo les quebraba el cuello y listos para la olla de agua hirviendo!... 😅
Ok, sir. I have to ask bc I can’t figure it out…you appear to have fangs. Now, what I’m curious about is- are those your natural teeth?? So pointy!? Or did you have those made and put in?
your dogs don't like the heart or liver? We give those and the gizzards (after I clean them) to our dogs as treats. Also, the chicken backs, cut them into chunks and they are safe for dogs to consume as long as they're not cooked. its loaded with nutrients and great for keeping their teeth clean. I have an 11 yr old Lab, she's eaten these daily for her entire life with us (since she was 10 weeks old) never a single issue.
dunno if you save the chicken feet. but they also make great snacks for dogs. (they're good for eating as well...) and if you have any people who feed their pets raw diets. Often they'll be happy to buy chicken feet.
Can your little boy be any cuter - NO - oh my goodness, he is adorable!! Thanks for sharing him with us. You know, they won't allow you to show the killing of a chicken for food, but they allow language that is so vile - disgusting!! God bless you and your family!!
When I was young my mother and father could only buy chickens whole. I was used to watching them cut them up. When I married, I cut up my own chicken. Not long after, I started buying pieces and now I only buy boneless, skinless breasts.
I help my momma kill and clean and cut up over 1000 birds while i was growing up to my mid 20s then i stop helping. the 60s and 70s mostly but i remember the smell like yesterday. and how my mom grab the neck and killed the bird. i don't miss it but i'd do it today if i had to go back to it at least id know what to do already.
I can't believe you threw away parts of the chicken. The way things are going you might need every part for soup and broth. I bet your Momma uses as much as she can, that's why she wants whole chickens. I guess when your blessed with plenty your not as frugal as when times are hard. Still, as always I enjoy all your videos.
I saw this type of thing growing up when my grandmother used to wring their necks and proceed to plucking them.I was traumatized as a child and do not need to watch this type of stuff. I enjoy the honey making, tree cutting,sawmilling and wood splitting but will turn off when you deal with killing pigs or chickens again. Sorry, but it’s not my thing.
