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OH my, what do we have here? Mesquite coals and marinated chicken drippings make for some nice smoke ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/v8Nt02Xc/IMG-20210727-170627062.jpg) Well, these look tasty: ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/VkcHzsTx/IMG-20210727-172319596.jpg) And plated with some local (farmed) wild rice with steamed broccoli, that bird made for a very nice meal: ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/JhYqHR64/IMG-20210727-175648996.jpg)
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Butchering chickens is nasty work.
They sure don't make it easy like a cow or pig.
Then there's hot water, stinky wet feathers, and finally the
cold water that's soaking you. Guts smell real special.
When you are done, you smell like all those smells.
And you only have one done.
We used to take poultry to a former private producer.
He was big into it by local standards, nothing by today's places.
But they had a Mom and Pop slaughter set up.
5 kill cones, a scalder an automatic plucker,
And a cutting room with a bandsaw.
He killed 5 at a time. Once he got going, 5 went in the scalded while five bled out. He dumped the plucker, pushing them done the line to his wife to dress and cut. Then he transferred the scalded ones to the plucker, tossed the ones from the cones to the scalded, and 5 more got cut.
His wife kept right up with him, knife, bandsaw and chicken pieces all a blur.
Show up there with 50 cluckers leave in (maybe) 2 hours with cut up chicken.
$.75/bird Then. I think it's over $2 now.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Butchering chickens is nasty work.
They sure don't make it easy like a cow or pig.
Then there's hot water, stinky wet feathers, and finally the
cold water that's soaking you. Guts smell real special.
When you are done, you smell like all those smells.
And you only have one done.
We used to take poultry to a former private producer.
He was big into it by local standards, nothing by today's places.
But they had a Mom and Pop slaughter set up.
5 kill cones, a scalder an automatic plucker,
And a cutting room with a bandsaw.
He killed 5 at a time. Once he got going, 5 went in the scalded while five bled out. He dumped the plucker, pushing them done the line to his wife to dress and cut. Then he transferred the scalded ones to the plucker, tossed the ones from the cones to the scalded, and 5 more got cut.
His wife kept right up with him, knife, bandsaw and chicken pieces all a blur.
Show up there with 50 cluckers leave in (maybe) 2 hours with cut up chicken.
$.75/bird Then. I think it's over $2 now.
Asked my grandfather what the metal cones mounted under his lean too behind the barn were for, he says ones for chicken stew and the other is for fried chicken. 
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Campfire Oracle
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Looking good Geno!
Dillon - it’s a little better by removing the food the day before jihad day.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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[quote=Valsdad) I wish there were more pheasants around too. I've thought about raising a bunch to release around here. On the ranch. If they "escape" the confines and end up on the BLM land......................oh well?
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Several decades ago my father placed several pheasant eggs under a broody Banty hen in a coop built with chicken wire. Shortly after they hatched the chicks ran thru the wire and never returned. That was the end of my dads pheasant raising enterprise. Then he raised Mallards. He was going in to clip their wings when the flock took off flying and made a circle around the yard and then flew off in the direction of Suisun Bay. They did not return either.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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My neighbor done tried a poultry/quail gulag.
Bears make a helluva mess.
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Campfire Outfitter
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We Dagos are good with a blade.
On humans! LOL ..... I knew some Italians back home that kept large pigeon coops in the back yard. Them birds weren't for racing. 
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