We Butchered 100+ Chickens (in a Day)

Happy butchering day. It is the peak of our season. We have two sets of Cornish cross out on the field, or one's in the brooder, one's going out into the field today. As soon as we butcher those, it's the height of our season. Slow down after that, but not too soon. This is rush month, June on the homestead. Getting the scalder ready. The last thing we want to do is come up and i've forgotten to heat up the scalder there we're good on ice butchering days are crazy because you still have to keep up the homestead so you still have to do your basic chores and then add a really significant work day on top of that so we're up and at them early to try to get a head start on everything happy day happy day what do you got i got a little hornworm Well, it is a happy day when you catch them young, huh? Yeah, I want them to get it. Do you mean to grow that sunflower right there? I did. What's your project this morning? Well, this. This is my project for all the mornings until it gets under control. And then I'll start again. I started here and then I've done these three. You're trellising the tomatoes. I'm trellising them. I'm pruning them. That's where I found the hornworm. You've got to do it early before it gets hot. Yep. Yep. So I can only work in here until a certain time, and then it's sauna mode. Okay. And we found out she don't like to do the sauna with her clothes on. No, I don't. No sweating with clothes on. Okay. I only do the sauna in my home. Well, you could become the underwear gardener. I could be the naked gardener. It's World Naked Gardening Day. That means to people watching us in Germany right now, you're allowed to get naked and garden like me. I just cream-separated. Doing a little Divine Conquer. The boys are on the chicken collection. They're catching the birds. Let's go see if we can catch it. Hey, look at you guys. Oh wait, there's three Jonas. That man's an imposter. That man is the imposter. Yeah. Don't look at them from too far away. You won't know who's who. Sam's borrowing some of their duds today. Duds. That's what my dad used to call work clothes. Hey, it's your last one for a reason. Should I get the goosebumps? They had the most sense. Should I do that? Should I set up for the... I should probably put the chicks out while you guys go do that. No, no. We'll do it after we get all these guys done. Why? It's just what we do. Because we need you. Alright, alright. We need to have everybody butchering. We need to get this done quickly. I have stuff I have to do today. Hey, but you're going to help with this, right? Yes! I don't know. I don't know. It's got to get done at some point. Why not right now before the sun hits it? It's going to be so hot. We're going to be so tired. Alright, that's what he wants to do. Doesn't that make sense? There's the sun. This has got to get done. We can get the chicks out immediately. Maybe I should override him here. I don't want to override him. But actually, hey Lily, can you get me the mower? The sun's coming up, I'm an old man now. I don't know. I don't wanna be out in the field doing this. The butchering shed has a shade and there's members coming to help us. Which by the way, if you're a member, we invite you to butchering for free. And you get the uncensored version of this. We can't put all this butchering on YouTube. And no ads. That's on Abundance Plus. Watch our vlogs on Abundance Plus for all that, right? What's waiting on? Let's go. He'll get here. Come on. Let's go. It is nice to be able to be somewhere doing something while something else is getting done. Well, I thought it was getting done. Everything's leaking. Hey, there's plenty of... Stuff for people to kill. What's wrong Josiah? Hold it by its wings. What? Its wings! Don't let it flop and get excited like that. But do it hard. But not too hard to where you're cutting the bone. Our first guest. Wait, how many are we having? At least two. These are like turkeys, dude! Can you go get the sharp one? Can you go get me the stone? Where is it? It's down on the sill. Here's what I'm going to do too, I'm going to put a whole channel inside of Abundance Plus dedicated to butchering because we've got a lot of butchering coming up so if you want to see how to do this you want to check that out. What brings you here again? Ha, ha, ha. it's like I'm on vacation. There's something about doing somebody else's chores a lot less stressful. That's right, yeah because you've got nothing, no stakes. You'll be back in three days to do the pig aren't you that's right, yeah. Look, he's helping us, he's also getting some experience. You've never done—well, you've done a pig before, you just want to see how somebody else does it how to how to fine tune it and I learned something every time I help somebody else butcher. Even with chickens, I've done chickens 20 times and there's always a way to make it easier. Yeah, Jordan, let's move this fence over and we'll be ready for the chicks, I want to give the new chicks from the brooder just absolutely fresh ground Let's get the chicks in their happy place. Jordan, we time it so that we kill one batch and the brooders are ready to go out. There's no dead space. Happy day for these chickens. They've been crammed up in this brooder. Yay for these chicks. I'm so happy for them. Are you guys happy for them? You happy for them, Jordan? Yeah. You can feel the energy. I got to make sure the goose got over. We have a goose to guard them. Hawks and stuff will get these guys when they're this size. There's still birds in here. Austin, you still sharpening knives? What is it? You spend, what, 80% of the time sharpening knives? There you go. It'll be also a happy day for these pigs. New mama pig, especially. Protein to that nursing mama. You don't even have to get up to eat. You're going on Monday. You might as well have a real nice meal. This is your last, this is kind of a last meal kind of thing for you, buddy. I mean, we'll feed him more, but this is, he'll really enjoy this. I swear these chickens are breeding and multiplying. Still 34, huh? just took a little break for brunch you guys want to quit for brunch no we're going to get all of them killed and put in the ice and then we'll go eat you'll break when it's done huh yeah okay pat ball barrel chicken we got it on our dryer and it's airing out idea is to put the vacuum sealer right here and we'll all be parting and somebody will be vacuum sealing all right stud muffin you ready to learn this yep okay everybody's gonna say where can i get those shirts well you weren't you were sleeping when late I'm not doing a good job. Yeah, this one's not sharp at all. I'm doing a terrible job. It doesn't help that I have a dull nose. Once we have three sets of breasts and three sets of dark meat, we can start bagging. This carcass is full of stuff, so it doesn't, it's not wasted space. Okay, what's the hope here, guys? One hour? Huh? Two hours? What's the hope? It was 11.30 when we started, let's see what we can do. We filled up a bin, guys. Let's see how your hoses work, buddy. It worked really well. Look at this. I came in real handy. I felt real professional. We are cleaning up. Finally done. Three o'clock. We started officially around 7 30 or seven. I'd say seven because we were catching chickens. Strong eight-hour day and we're gonna go enjoy the soccer game. Jonah installed these water lines yesterday and now When we're done, they're still there. We don't have to wind them up. We've been tracking hoses to do this in the past. So every year, a little change. We made a couple of big changes. A couple of changes this year. The cold room. We're going to cool this meat off first before overburdening the freezer. At 50, it's gonna get down to 36. A lot of warm meat, it's gotta cool down and we've been opening that door. So let's leave this shut. A couple hours later and it is down to 39 degrees already. We got a thunderstorm coming. We need that. It is our Friday night. We are heading to the Sabbath. I will end it there with a big old Shabbat shalom and a happy day.