tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post7647381775782804729..comments2024-01-29T03:04:24.219+11:00Comments on Flinders Family Freer: cannibal chickens and a spinning headAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-72966972943115690572009-11-08T03:52:36.330+11:002009-11-08T03:52:36.330+11:00Silverdrake -talk to B sometime about gutting 5 to...Silverdrake -talk to B sometime about gutting 5 tons of carp. She feels much the same way. It is weird how smells conjure such intense memories.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-4196742886979282622009-11-06T17:34:51.820+11:002009-11-06T17:34:51.820+11:00We'd cut the head off with a hatchet, and toss...We'd cut the head off with a hatchet, and toss the body away to run and flop, bleeding it out. Then pick it up by the feet and dip it in scalding water to loosen the feathers for plucking (also kills any lice it may have been carrying.) And after removing the pin-feathers, singe off the hairs (yes, for all you city-folk, chickens do have hairs!) over an open flame.<br /><br />Uck! Y'know how smell is your most-deeply impressing sense? I just got a recap of the smell of chicken guts. :p Second-youngest of the family, had to use a step-stool to properly reach the counter, and guess who got the "joy" of gutting about 50 chickens over one long weekend? (for two years in a row!) My older brothers just had to pluck the blasted things!Silverdrakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13507585114144154626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-54826009122921079742009-10-05T08:40:51.695+11:002009-10-05T08:40:51.695+11:00Part of me regrets that I never took the opportuni...Part of me regrets that I never took the opportunity to learn the little tricks of the country farmer, such as how to cleanly remove a rabbit skin in one jerk, from my paternal grandfather.<br /><br />Although I do remember the trick is not so much to wring the chicken's neck as to quickly jerk snap the cervical vertebrae using the chicken's own weight against it.Reverance Pavanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01217657347160811310noreply@blogger.com