Joe wrote:
Capt.Mooron wrote:

"Joe" wrote in message

Why are raising Roosters to eat anywhy?

If you have a recipe for having hens lay only eggs with female birds....


Let me guess Overproof and lime marinade.

Nope....


Do you just leave them outside to freeze?

Sheesh.... they have feathers.


We use to do about 100 white leggerds a year. Clean and package them
all on one day.


Then you used either 20 people or an automatic plucker.


What? Get the water boiling just dunk the bird for a few seconds and
the feathers fall off with ease into a steaming pile , not much pluking
involved. Just 4 of us.

Huh???? The feathers don't all just fall out....especially if
you've chased them around or terrorized them or cut off their
heads...Mooron's description does release some of the feathers
because the bird doesn't bunch its' muscles up when it's
killed...plucking 25 chikens in a day without a plucking machine
would be a long, hard days work

Nothing like the smell of the kettle boiling and a big steaming pile of
feathers. That and headless chickens running all over the yard doing
acrobatics made for and interesting spring day. We would raise hens for
the eggs and replace the hens every year. Maybe one rooster to excite
the gals into laying but thats it.

No headless chickens running, I use a cone and a blade... slice the artery,
and drive the blade in behind the eye to scramble the brain...



Why the dramatics, just Pop the head of with axe, or pipe.

because you get better feather release by sticking them...


let hang. 30

seconds in 140F water and hand pluck.


Thats your problem the water is not hot enough.

Eviscerate and lay to a cooling tank.

Hang to dry.



No roosters needed to have hens lay..... it's all a matter of light.


Yeah I know, but we still had one most years.

Joe

CM