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.
Comments
Sarah
I find the video extremely soothing, which I admit is a little bizarre. It's like: ooooh, rubber fingers. oooooh, red metal. Look! A chicken! oooh, bye-bye feathers.
Eileen
In real life "soothing" is not quite the word for it. "Totally awesome and bizarre", not to mention "kinda gruesome". It does do an absolutely amazing job, though -- plucking by hand takes at least 20 minutes per bird, but the magic plucker is about 2 minutes.
kathycopic
Hey guys - glad to hear that your chickens are totally delicious! Sometimes DIY things turn out super cheap (like making really good soap) and other times they cost nearly as much as buying things, though making them is often more fun. (I'd put my first year of gardening in that second category, since there were a lot of start-up costs.) Where would you say these chickens fall on the costliness scale, compared to other happy tasty chickens?I'm also curious about what you did about sick chickens, if you had any, knowing that you wanted to eat them later.Thanks!