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Meager chicken harvestLast night we butchered our remaining 8 meat chicks. We started with 100, the rest were fed to the wildlife (mink to be exact - not our intentions, by any means!). In the middle of butchering our meager harvest of chickens, our neighbor stopped by. Apparently, the mink slaughtered his chickens as well. Can't find anyone that is too fond of mink these days. Oh, well, such is life.One great thing that came out of our meager harvest was that our 10 year old daughter had expressed determination to learn how to eviscerate the chickens. Last year she and our youngest were put to work at final inspection (which meant they picked the pin feathers off of the butchered chickens). They also taught other children how to do this when we hosted our chicken butchering workshops. This year our oldest wanted to do more. So, John walked her through the first one, assisted her with the second one and she took off! She was soooo thrilled that she could do it! It wasn't long before our youngest began to express a desire to learn how to separate the "food tube and air tube" from the dead chicken in preparation for eviscerating. Then she asked if she could remove the heart and studied it after she pulled it out. After hearing stories of the noble women of the past and how they butchered their own chickens for dinner, the girls were inspired to take a step and learn how to do it as well. Some children get a kick out of kicking a ball around a field, some children get a kick out of putting food on the table. My hat is off to the latter! The Farmer's Wife 10:24 - 2006-Jul-7 - post comment
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