Catchup

It is nice to have a break from all the farm work every now and then and winter is just the time for that.  On January 2, we processed our nine turkeys but this time we used a new method.  Instead of scalding the turkeys and pulling off the feathers as we have previously did, we skinned them.  Caution!  Contains detailed information that my be unsuitable for some people. ;)  First we killed them (I finally summoned the power to do it for the first time and it was quite fine).  Our cousin was helping us so it was funny since he doesn't live in the country.  After they bled out we took them to the processing table to be skinned and gutted.  First we cut off their head, then we started cutting up their chest from the neck, then we started cutting down to the legs and wings(If you've skinned a deer it is very similar to that), we cut their wings off since the skin is hard to get off of them and dad is the only one who likes them.  Then we cut up their back and cut all the skin off, now it looks more like a turkey from the store, all that is left is to gut (which I won't explain) and clean them and put them in the pink water.  Pink water is just cold water that you put them in after you're done and it turns pink as it draws out the remaining blood.  Next job.  We moved the chickens from the chicken coop over in the field to the coop at the house(I don't now what month we did that but it was sometime near the turkey processing).  Earlier we were getting about ten eggs a day from fifty chickens and now we are getting about three dozen a day which shows that they where laying in the woods.  I feed the chickens and the bunnies since I am already out there, Caleb takes care of Sandy our cow and Josiah gathers the eggs.  We are about to order some baby turkeys, broilers and chickens for this year.  I WILL do a post of them when we get them.  That's all I can think of for today.

Thanks for reading,

Seth