Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Processing Days

For the past couple of days we've been processing broilers, we're very grateful for the help of our friends! Justin Wright helped us on Monday and Elliott and Oliver Alexander on Tuesday. These are some pictures Katie took on Tuesday.


The killing station, manned by Will, 10 and Sam, 6






Dad ran the scalder and plucker.




The evisceraters.


We were able to finish up with the processing before lunch. Before we went in to eat, we had to go round up our thanksgiving turkeys who had escaped from their pens and were sauntering over to enjoy the neighbor's lawn! After lunch and a short break we cut up two coolers of birds and then packaged them. This is the second to last batch of broilers for this growing season. We will be processing our last batch in December.



Pretty fall sunset.


-Morgan

9 comments:

Rachel and Sarah said...

Hi Morgan! Seems like forever since we've seen you. But you know, trouble's a-brewin';) that scalder looks like a still. Are you sure you ain't doin' something other'n processin'? Hmmmmm? ;)
-Rachel, Sarah, and Daniel

Oliver said...
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Oliver said...

Shhhh keep it quite yall. That's the reason Justin and us help with
"Processing".

Morgan said...

How dare you insinuate such a thing?! My own loyal friends... I'm going to have to report this to the National Bureau of Misadvertised Blog Posts organization!(hehehe!)

The Gentleman From Virginia said...

Hello, this is the National/Federal Bureau of Misadvertised Blog Posts here. We think it deffinatley could be taken as a still, but the background checks that we ran on you all [and the commentors] show that everyone involved is an upstanding and moral citizen. That's the value of good reputations. Investigation closed. [case i.d.#a.5395324]

:) :) ;) ;)

The Gentleman From Virginia said...

Wait a second, I just realized that I misspelled "definitely". Oh well, I guess it was late last night:)

talkalot said...

Daniel are you impersonating a government organization? :O ;P (b)

ooh Morgan when did you adopt Justin (referring to the pic)

talkalot said...

die chugen die auchwieser :);)

Morgan said...

Hey Talkalot,
We actually adopted Justin, Tim and Ben Wright last winter. They come over about once a week to help with farm work:)