Grand Champion Chickens.........processing

[one66stang]

The 12yo boy won Grand Champion with his broilers this year at the county show. Yes we eat them!







Chicken plucker




Scalding pot 150 deg with a shot of dawn soap to loosen the feathers




12 10-12# chickens



In the plucker



Before eviscerating




Big breasts




Chill then package

[one66stang]

sorry for the huge pictures

[huntresss]

Congrats to your son. How does the plucker work? I love duck, but hate plucking the boogers.

[one66stang]

It has a plate in the bottom that spins. The black things are rubber fingers that pull the feathers off. You have to scald the chicken in hot water to loosen the feathers and make them easy to pluck.

[buckwild17]

My kid show chickens & turkeys too !!! 4 grands & 5 reserves in four years !!!!

[Passthrough]

Thats awesome......except the pics

[Leftridge]

Congrats to him! I won Grand Champion Pen of Poultry in Midland when I was in high school.. Never did any good with the pigs but those chickens sold for $700 bucks.

[Coup de Grace]

Man I like that chicken plucker. Wished I had one of those when I was growing up.

[BTLowry]

I hope it turns out better for you than it did for us. I have processed show chickens 2 times and neither time were they any good to eat. Dry and tougher than woodpecker lips

[Swampa]

Nice!

[elkbowhunter]

that is cool....how much one of those de pluckers cost?

[Reaper]

looks like a graze, congrats to your kiddo

[Tuffbroadhead]

Congrats on the Win!

[clintb]

I showed Capons and Turkeys back in the day. I won 1 grand and 1 reserve with my capons and the same with my turkeys. The grand and reserves sold at the auction but all my other birds we did as you are. Turkeys were good but the Capons were like chewing rubber

[holdem]

YUM, YUM ! Sunday afternoon chicken and dumplins then a nap comes to mind when viewing this.