Meadow Musings

Let this serve as notice that we have completed a second wiring project, one that you will not see any pictures of.  "Oh man," you say, "why no pictures?".  Well, my friends, today we re-wired a Schweiss Chicken Plucker.  A friend loaned us his, which he bought off eBay a few months ago.  It works great -- though who knows who the crazy person was who came up with the idea of using rubber fingers in a chicken plucker -- but the motor is old and the wiring was plain-old scary.  As in, exposed wired and bits falling off, and no switch, so you have to plug-and-unplug every time (in the snow, covered with chicken bits).  As a thank-you to the person we borrowed it from, we re-wired it, added a switch, etc.

Let this also serve as notice that we are down to 5 chickens; the other 11 are in the freezers in bags.  The last 5 will be dispatched (some people use the term "harvested", but that sounds a little too soylent green for me) as soon as they run out of food.  The birds are huge -- 7 pounds on average -- and totally delicious.