GOODBYE, CHICKENS! Their Final Day on the Farm

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@shaallen8412 Ай бұрын

I love how you share your farming experience. Your style of explaining the processes are easy on the ears and the heart to animal and meat lovers ❤ thank you 🙏🏻 and your family for sharing your story with the world ❤️

@constancestine1020 Ай бұрын

I, too, helped my mother process our Rhode Island Reds, usually, 50 at a time. Mom would dispatch each bird, my function was to dip and pluck, my older sister would then cut up the birds, clean rinse then bag the bird and placed on ice. I was all of 10 if not younger when I began helping but what I thought about during this process was all the weeks that preceded this ending. My job every day was to feed & clean the “chicken house” and give a daily report to my parents. We weren’t wealthy but I will tell you that in every step of preparing our birds I felt blessed and proud of this accomplishment of raising food for our family, and I felt very rich in the ability to enjoy this great lesson. I hear you Mike when you explain the process that leads to one bad day. Thanks for taking me back over 65 years to recall those wonderful days. You are a natural teacher!!!❤ ❤

@irritatedkitty7301 Ай бұрын

Amazing to watch and interesting! Never knew all that went into farming chickens. Blessed days.

@robertdoell4321 Ай бұрын

Use a straightened out coat hanger and make a hook on the end to catch the leg of the chickens. That is how we did it on the farm.

@tireddad6541 Ай бұрын

Except we are running out of metal coat hangers

@CreatorInTrng Ай бұрын

Great video. Tied it all together from beginning to end (to freezer(s)). True. Livestock are a 24/7 commitment. Planning and balance helps keep it in perspective as a life-long commitment.

@brendahogue5487 Ай бұрын

Love and enjoy your videos. May the lord bless and protect you and your family and the animals and the homestead

@rebeccaplumlee9601 Ай бұрын

I once lived 5 miles from a laying chicken hatchery & big egg producers. They of course kept pullets only. I made a deal for the cockerels every 4 weeks from April to Oct for 25 chicks. Sometimes my box would have 40+, because laying birds were small, when i butchered every 6-8 weeks we pkged up different. 4 breasts in a bag, 12+ legs, a bag of wings (i used in making broth) & a bag of thighs (because small i never knew how many fit). But for dollar a box of chicks & almost free food, i was happy all i had was my work in them It seems like a lot of birds, but smaller birds means more per meal & i had larger family, plus i traded chickens for other foodstuff. And i donated food to shelters

@AtypicalOffgridder Ай бұрын

We love watching you and your amazing family! I'm looking forward to raising chickens. Thanks for all you do!!!

@charleshowell7855 Ай бұрын

Been awhile since I’ve watched. It’s makes me smile to see your family growing. And, your farm adventures. Take care! God Bless

@BlueRidgeVirginia Ай бұрын

Great video to show the processes you go through to grow-out broiler chickens! We have both layers and broilers on our homestead, and like you, we use McMurray Hatchery as our supplier. After more than 30 years of ordering through them, we can say that their hatchery is consistently great and we are still 100% satisfied customers. With our broilers, we go with Cornish Cross and have great success. Like you, we use a tractor system. But for the first 2 weeks, they are in the barn under brooder lighting and some confinement. We time our broiler purchases so that we are dispatching the birds during cooler weather in early Autumn and we do 25 birds at a time. But being small-scale and for ourselves only, we break the 'final day' into a 2-day ordeal. (Helps with the stress on working hands!) We have no fancy equipment so it was interesting to see your operation -- that scalder and dunker are quite something!! We skin our birds so we don't have the scald-process to deal with. Then when we are at the point of breaking down the meat and vac-sealing bags, we always make a variety of cuts and we bag accordingly. Lots of work involved, but it's worth the effort!!

@evalinawarne1337 Ай бұрын

GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU. BLESSED THANKSGIVING I AM SO THANKFUL FOR THIS FAMILY HONORING OUR FATHER. GLORY BE TO GOD HALLELUJAH SE MICHIGAN 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🙏🇮🇱🙏🏡🙏❤️❤️❤️

@ericataylor1708 Ай бұрын

Great team work 😊

@debbeasher-k4764 Ай бұрын

Job & video Well done🎉 Glad you can take a break for a while. ❤😊

@stephencameron1709 Ай бұрын

Great job, lots of hard work. Selah, your farm helper and the boys did a great job working alongside you. ❤️🙏🏻Val C

@glendaanderson1119 Ай бұрын

It's so odd to see her driving as I've been watching you for that long! 😄 My goodness!

@keithprinn720 Ай бұрын

cant imagine a homestead without both broilers and layers. then the plusses as you clean out their pens. absolutely critical for food and gardens.

@131dyana Ай бұрын

I wanted to keep my chickens but I live in the city and if your neighbors complain then I could not keep them. Sad. Each of us have to live with what we want.

@sandhollowhomestead6972 Ай бұрын

It's all worth it... at the table.

@batpherlangkharkrang7976 Ай бұрын

Hi..... Mike Dickson i have missed your video I am coming back Love watching your video homestead 🏡🐔🐓🐣🐤🦃🦢🦆🦮🐈‍⬛🐐🐄🐝🎥👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍

@marybroussard043 Ай бұрын

Good Evening Dickson Family 💕

@reneethomas5548 Ай бұрын

WOW! The equipment available now!

@dixsigns1717 Ай бұрын

Couple of good looking poulets in that bunch!

@sheilamclaughlin963 Ай бұрын

Best place in the world to teach them to drive

@CourageousParenting Ай бұрын

Mike…this video is so great. May God bless you and keep you brother. So much work went into it and it shows. May He cause His face to shine upon you and your family. And may He lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. In Jesus name. Amen.

@debkincaid2891 Ай бұрын

Loved this video! ❤❤❤ Thanks for sharing it.

@Coptergirljs Ай бұрын

The way you raise chickens is very time consuming. I have permanent large pens for my birds to roam around in. The fencing is permanent with a large Hen house in the middle. It's a big job to fence in large areas, but worth it in the long run. You can rotate the birds from one area to another. I also have two premier electric fences I use to give them more room, plus I run 1or two old hens with the birds. These girls will get the others in in case of a hawk flying over head (roosters are useless). I also run old English game bantams (the black breasted red old English are the best) which can go where they want. These birds have cut down on my tick population and are a warning system for predators. The main pen has hawk netting over it so the birds have access to this pen at all times. We have the tendency to raise birds and eggs for others as well as our selves and we wear our selves out doing it. Something I find is healthful is letting the weeds to grow up thick in a few areas of the pens. The chickens love these areas and I find stay there most of the time; it keeps them cool and insects are attracted to these areas. I thought maybe this might give you some ideas that might be healthful.

@ajalicea1091 Ай бұрын

Hezekiah I love you little buddy eat eat eat eat eat eat😊

@rhondaflanders4386 Ай бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving y'all ❤😊

@lindafellion6256 Ай бұрын

Gave you a thumbs up just because I enjoyed watching you dance! Bye bye birdies.

@sheilamclaughlin963 Ай бұрын

Good compost

@pamcarter6595 Ай бұрын

Great video ❤

@maryryan Ай бұрын

Great video 👍🏻👏 Love watching Selah and the boys...❤

@megmills4798 Ай бұрын

Yes but all that hard work is satisfying and there your meat birds raised by you😊

@RedRubyFarm Ай бұрын

Really enjoyed your video!

@DongFarm7749 Ай бұрын

Rất tuyệt vời ❤❤❤❤❤❤

@Pjnc-r6g Ай бұрын

YOU ARE THE MAN !!!

@roddumlauf9241 Ай бұрын

I love Racoons, but I hate them too. They killed more than 10 of my ducks this past summer. I need a break too.

@tamararoberts9307 Ай бұрын

I do the same with compost 😊

@denisewilson8367 Ай бұрын

I like the featherman scalder. Bet it works great for ducks.

@phylliswebber1341 Ай бұрын

when i was a i kid ( now65) my grandpa raised eating chichens and us kids were the depluckers we had no fancy machines,,, i was so happy when i got a chance to cut them up! blessed memories believe it or not!!!

@nancywoods7613 Ай бұрын

Enjoyed this. I watched your show when you had Barbara O Neill on. Was her Facebook Real Barbara O’Neill?

@deirdre444 Ай бұрын

Would you mind sharing what your chicken feed consists of?

@christenastachowski2880 Ай бұрын

Salah is doing good with her driving. Your kids are growing up.

@RevivalFire1 Ай бұрын

Salah seems sad.

@FloridaGirl- Ай бұрын

Yes! That’s what I was thinking . An overhang. You deserve it! 👍

@codya8684 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤

@thunderstickhomestead Ай бұрын

lol I'll come clean it out for ya.

@nancywoods7613 Ай бұрын

I’ve been in touch with Barbara (I think). She was going to send me stuff but I’m scared of being scammed. Is there any other way to know it’s really her?

@bettypearson5570 Ай бұрын

Recently KZbin has started tossing in lots of your old vids in my suggested which I have been watching again. It got me wondering whether you were just a KZbin farm now instead of a working small farm. You used to do CSA, sell to some restaurants, a lot of eggs but seems like most of what you show anymore has been cleanup of featuring other people. So glad to hear you still sell chicken meat and eggs. Do you sell any of the other animals or are they just for your family? I know you went on the 7 year land rest but did you go back to selling produce to others? Do you raise enough produce for your family for the year or just part of your needs? What do you do with your goats? Are they raised for meat, milk or just pets. I know you got that new buck so you must have breeding plans. Do you still have the milk cow?

@edwardsdeacon Ай бұрын

🤔 This should be an experience everyone should have.

@cynthias7757 Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your experiences raising meat birds. Do you have a video for someone just getting started on a small scale without all the equipment? Thanks again.😊

@ritahall8653 Ай бұрын

I left it when your little one said eat

@tamararoberts9307 Ай бұрын

❤farm baby's word❤ he knows it's food

@CrackerFL Ай бұрын

An over head with solar panels? One farmer bought a used small silo and was blown away how much money he saved by buying bulk feed. Like it only cost him around $350 for a ton of feed!

@20NewJourney23 Ай бұрын

I will be trying the Big Red Broilers in the early spring. What do you see for the dressed weight on average for them? How many days/weeks to butcher? What percent of protein feed do you use? I plan to feed 24% crumble. I know they take longer than CC to grow. I don't want the dirty, sad CC, and am okay with a smaller bird if it is still 4 lbs or larger by 12 weeks (dressed). Does this sound like a doable plan for the BRB? I know they are supposeldy reproduceable. I plan to keep breeders and hatch my own BRB from them. Thank you for this video! I appreciate it!

@dorisharrison9885 Ай бұрын

👍🥗🦃🇺🇲😊👍

@irritatedkitty7301 Ай бұрын

@rosharnwalker7366 Ай бұрын

So, when you gather your birds at night, which 🐔 predator to you imagine yourself as? I'm a brown bear, usually, but sometimes I like to be a racoon .

@oncewasblindbutnowic589 Ай бұрын

I like to be an LGD. That's why our chickens free-range here in the Arkansas Ozarks, and come back with chicks when they disappear for a little while. We don't have to buy chicks, nor do we have to feed them

@rosharnwalker7366 Ай бұрын

@oncewasblindbutnowic589 Woof Woof!

@Fawn62312 Ай бұрын

Has anyone raised meat birds (not the Cornish cross) with their laying flock? They would have free choice chicken feed, but also access to grass and bugs.

@1LittleNonna Ай бұрын

Try American Bresse chicken for meat + eggs.

@Fawn62312 Ай бұрын

I'll look into them, thanks!! ❤

@normamccomas9272 Ай бұрын

❤❤🙏🙏xxoo

@christyv4125 Ай бұрын

I haven't watched in a while, forgive me. It's been a tough year here in East Tennessee. Are you guys still trying a low carb diet? We are and we raise our meat. We raised 50 meat birds this year.

@caribbeancharmgardening90 Ай бұрын

This going to be me in 7 hours …. Only thing …. I will be doing 50 birds alll by myyy sellffffff 😢…. I keep saying to my self This too shall pass And yummy shall commence❤

@mrs.kittylarou4970 Ай бұрын

Mike , i like the new gadgets that you buy to make processing the chickens easier. Now all you have to do is build a shed or something to keep warm and cool to work. This way you wont have to move the canopy around all the time.😊

@ShaiyenJaunky Ай бұрын

What !??, OH ,Not Chicken,😮 🍗 Pee perto cookcook ! Yes i agres meat chicken 🐔 , Can be Substitute, 2 years fully grow ,Meat can be Tough but Delicious !!