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Post by mnjrutherford on May 5, 2009 9:03:00 GMT -5
oh I get it! You don't pluck, right? You just pull off the skin feathers and all? If that's correct, what is the order of the following steps?
beheading
foot removal
gutting
skinning
Those are the procedures that I am presuming follow the process of cutting... what, the left or right side of the neck? and hanging it upside down to bleed?
Forgive my ignorance here. When I saw this as a kid, it was a little traumatic.
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Post by cff on May 5, 2009 18:14:34 GMT -5
Generally my son and me work together, one of us will catch them out of the coop and the other takes a hatchet and lobs their heads off over by a stump and drop them in a tub to bleed out, we do 10 or 20 and then start dressing while there still warm. The feet are "handles" for the person holding the bird, you roll the skin up enough to pinch it with your fingers on both sides of the bird and pull down like you were dressing a rabbit. Skin feathers and all will roll right off down to where the head use to be  Turn the bird over and hold by the wings - roll anything left down the opposite direction, removing the skin only takes a few seconds. I use a set of poultry scissors to cut through the rib cage and pull the breast up far enough to gut the bird. Last part remove the feet and send it to the house for a wash and fry oh I get it! You don't pluck, right? You just pull off the skin feathers and all? If that's correct, what is the order of the following steps? beheading foot removal gutting skinning Those are the procedures that I am presuming follow the process of cutting... what, the left or right side of the neck? and hanging it upside down to bleed? Forgive my ignorance here. When I saw this as a kid, it was a little traumatic. |
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 6, 2009 8:48:06 GMT -5
 delightful ::faints dead away:: um, never skinned a rabbit either. But that's for the future. Mike on the other hand has wiped out rattlesnakes, porcupines and a number of other species in the Idaho mountains just outside of Boise. Mikey, he eats EVERYthing!
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Post by swisscharrd on May 28, 2009 19:02:17 GMT -5
I have skinned chickens too- just like taking off their little chicken feather jackets. Easy.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 3, 2009 20:43:37 GMT -5
Sounds like I will need to stay in the house when this task is in progress!
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delightful ::faints dead away::