The Ultimate Chicken Butchering Set Up Just Got Better

Uh-oh. How'd they get out? Oh, they just went right under there is how they got out. Video on this coming soon. We're doing a hatching out, hatching chicks from Mama Hen video. Little chicken is on the mom right now. She got off of her. They're doing great. But you have nine? She's not even the main star we have a main broody hen we've been tracking and following along all in the video we just have a few bonuses for that video i can't wait for you guys to see it beauty's in her happy place in the garden you know how there's rush hour we all understand it on the homestead we're having a rush month Harvest is coming in, we're mowing our hay fields, and we need to butcher chickens, pigs, and cows. Pure Country Organic, my feed of choice, we're supposed to get a delivery today. Shout out to New Country for always being organic beyond non-GMO. Did you know in non-GMO you can still spray glyphosate? Thank you, New Country Organic. For keeping that off the food, I love and appreciate you for that. Guys, you can get it in bulk, as hopefully you'll see later today. In 1,000, 2,000 pounds, it's cheaper that way. Or you can get it in individual bags shipped to you or picked up at your local farm store. What if we all called our local farm store today and asked for New Country Organic? We'll change the world one homestead at a time. That's what we would do. Everybody check it out at newcountryorganics.com or I'll leave the link down in the description. Thanks New Country for sponsoring this video. We are going to set up the butchering shed in a minute but we've got to get some chores done. I gotta show you this. There are so many animals down here right now. Hey this will be one slow down. We'll put the weaned, hopefully weaned, hopefully the mamas have dried up. It's been over two weeks. It couldn't be any closer. This move couldn't be any easier so I'm gonna go for it and we'll have one last job because we've been having to move this two three times a day. Oh shoot! I remember we never did post that vlog. It just just wasn't enough. Austin, we get to show some of that vlog. All right, bring some of the vlog of us weaning these lambs. Here they come. Sheep, sheep, sheep. Rebecca, you're gonna lead. We are gonna make sure everybody goes. Yes, because they do get wandering sometimes. Danielle, there you go. And now they wandered off. Who knows where they're going. Sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep. Y'all back up because we got to bring them back. Maybe stand right here. Come, come. come kind of file right through here that'll kind of keep them from going back that way see here here they come wait rebecca wait let's get them all together otherwise they won't go around that curve once they all get past the net then cut in yep there you go perfect everybody stop you did it we had to get them in this physical holding 16 by 16 ram pin and now we just got to get them out and get them back to their mamas hopefully their mamas have dried off these guys will try to nurse Hopefully mamas don't have nothing in there because they're in some of them are in ill condition and they need they need to get their condition back. They're trying to nurse. Let's see if they're having any luck. I don't think they're having any luck. Sheep, cows, sea monsters, turkeys, four species right here. Old neighbor back visiting. Boy's his best friend. Do you know that rotationally grazing just daily rotationally grazing will double Your productivity, you can go, if you have five acres, you can go from five acres to ten without buying any more land. Just with rotational grazing, as soon as one to three years. Make time. Takes a little more time than just putting them in the field. Yes, make time. It takes a lot more effort to buy more land, doesn't it? You feeling this tomorrow? Hey, nice shoes, Henrietta. Can you get it? Whose shoes are those? Liliana's. Liliana's. She left her shoes. Liliana? Oh, they're Liliana's? Yeah. We got a tail and they left them. Today's mission. We used to butcher the chickens over here. It's great. We have a shed. We're on concrete. We can keep our equipment set up. We didn't always have that guys. Don't wait for this to start. We used to just do it next to the barn. We pulled out a 10 by 10 tent. We pulled out rubber hoses. We've used folding tables. Every year we get a little bit better like well big improvement this year. We've got a cold room We're gonna use this to cool down the chickens before we put them in the freezer, guys you can just put them in the freezer Just kind of space them out if you need too but this is best practice if you can cool them off It's a little less pressure. It's a lot less pressure on your freezer We had a problem with our butchering setup being here the way this pad drain it drains this way So we're butchering here and I don't know why I chose this pad to butcher and all the water drains all through all this stuff and it drains out over here i don't know who it was and i don't know why you don't always think of these things that seem so obvious why isn't our butchering area over here there's an added bonus to over here besides well the water naturally drains that way well that sun is blaring on that quarter where we're butchering chickens and that gets hot and so it's even a little cooler over here in the past we've just run hoses for our water supply and that's fine and that'll work but i think we're gonna have another improvement this year too jonah's got a mind to run water line to my permanent not hoses up through the rafters for our butchering area so we'll see if that happens this evening it's the day before butchering we've got to get this ready i'm going to take you along and at the end i'm going to show you the ultimate chicken butchering setup let's do this where'd you get that from that creek down there Oh, that really hurt. Are you getting pinched? Yeah, that really hurt. Well, yeah. All right, put them back. Oh, wow. Ta-da! Cleaned it up. Let's set it up. Stainless steel killing cones, blood buckets. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Gideon, we need a couple of buckets for guts. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. You wanna think about this in strategic order. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. We'll pull up with the chickens right there in a trailer. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Offload them, the first thing you do is kill them. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Bleed them, go through all the motions. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. We need to get our knives up here. Gideon, will you go get our knives? Next up comes the scalder, but this is not a 240. Our scalder is a 240, is way over there. Until we get a drop cord, or an electrician to put in another 240. I believe a drop cord will be a lot cheaper. We're just gonna haul across, we're grinning bear up we're gonna we're gonna get out of that we're gonna just hit it hard no buying nothing a couple of tables we gotta get those in a second but we have this put a table there hesitant to put a table there because of the sun so let's put it right here we're calling it right there for now we still gotta get the tables i gotta go get supper working for me and then we'll finish it on today's burn it up cooking show lamb stew it's the last of our lamb like my It's a little hard to get on. That's what we got after three little legs. We'll cook this, too. That bone will fall off. You guys are leaving me, huh? Yeah. For the sliding rock? Yeah. Okay. Limited time with Sam. Yeah. Have fun. When are you going to do the water? When I get back. Are you? Okay. I'm not seeing any lard or tallow. I guess I'll just have to use butter. Can I use butter? It doesn't have a high heat tolerance. Ugh, that sucks. Despite what my shirt says, I should probably not use butter in high heat situations. Get some garlic. I hadn't cured, so I hope it's okay. Just gonna put that. Garlic, potatoes, bay leaves, carrots, salt and pepper, tomato sauce, rosemary, thyme, a bit of red wine, super cubes of broth in there. Wish y'all could smell this. Hey, everybody like it? Yeah, it's really good. Henry's favorite. Was this your favorite? it's so good we also starved all day yeah i don't think we ate since breakfast at eight and we had to eat breakfast early 8 15. i had a snack yeah you're the only one everybody's that'll make anything taste great right my greatest recipe hunger it's been a minute since i i've had to go out after dinner but we're gonna have to go out after dinner and finish this job this evening Good evening. jonah's working on the water line do you have everything you need yeah he never ceases to amaze we got one more piece two more pieces okay we're going to show you jonah's masterpiece we're actually going to try it to see if it works while we wait tour our chicken butchering set up stainless steel funnels they hold the birds steady they hold them upside down we slit their throat we got some buckets you put a little water in there so the blood falls in there it doesn't coagulate coagulate and then we put the blood on the blood water on our pastures we're going to kill them We got an assortment of knives. this head off one day we'll have the skull there right here we don't wait for perfection good is good enough it's not the saying that's not the same this afternoon i don't know what the saying is okay then we're gonna hike them over there at a skull that is gonna be a pain in the butt maybe we'll splurge and get us that drop cord before the next one goes in the plucker tested it earlier it's working that's what jonah's working on female the female will connect this they go on to the evisceration table i think that's actually For now, gonna move over here. Jonah's hose setup is right here. We'll have a table over here as well. They take a little cold plunge in our 100 gallon tank. Guys, before this 100 gallon tank, we were using food grade barrels, two of them. Food grade barrel. After that, we're gonna go put this on the table, let the birds air out. Then we're gonna go ahead and part them to legs and wings and thighs, breasts, and the big build of the Rhodes Family Homestead 2026. this cool room i gotta remember to turn it on in the morning it's a little room and it's well insulated we got the shelf to put the chickens on to let them start cooling off air out you know air can get to them at all sides we did not finish our paneling yet that's coming soon guys we made a special video it took us probably five weeks to build this thing from beginning to end on this thing that's coming soon after that we stagger them into the freezer probably a third Every day, probably starting with Friday afternoon, evening. tomorrow afternoon evening and then another about another bunch on saturday and then another bunch on sunday you'll try it see if it leaks it better not he's got a hose connect right here to a physical one inch poly water line i'm proud of him it's just the poly pipe we have oh shoot that don't have a turn it off that doesn't have a washer okay comes in a poly pipe across you're leaking right there i wonder if you need a put a pressure reducer on it and then it comes down through here he's got a connection and we got a hose we got a hose here here and here why is this leaking so then anyway it's nice oh they're going to be spraying that people are going to have to stand on this side so i don't want to get that wet we haven't we haven't painted that and then he even took one over across this way and it'll run our plucker are you sure you better hold on in case that oh my gosh Turn it on gentle, let's see if it works. Hey, let's cross our fingers, we're all tired. Got a big day tomorrow, it's eight o'clock. It worked. Hot dog. Hot dog. Go turn it off before we break it. Don't jinx it. It's leaking. Yeah, a little bit. You gotta reposition them, but it's fine for tomorrow. Just a little bit of leak is fine. Won't you join us, see how this turns out tomorrow in the real butchering day? See you then, happy day.