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  • @tommasiero5234
    @tommasiero5234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Just wanted to say thank you to the McGie family for being such great teachers to us. What a blessing they are!!

  • @Hatfield_Country
    @Hatfield_Country 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yeah buddy, that's how it's done right there!

  • @dougchase4571
    @dougchase4571 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watched it all.
    Butchering my own chickens is in my future.

  • @YaYaLee
    @YaYaLee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We started processing yesterday 🐓🍗

  • @DeDaanste
    @DeDaanste ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was great! Now I can slaughter one of my own chicks when needed. Thank you ever so much. Greeting from a Dutch woman living alone in Hungary. Just started to build my own tiny homestead without a budget. 😍

  • @mrsdomino4196
    @mrsdomino4196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Some county extension office’s will let you rent/borrow a chicken plucker. God bless y’all.

  • @luke5767
    @luke5767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice healthy looking birds..... and just like farm fresh eggs, farm fresh chicken is awesome!..... and those gizzards and hearts are my favorite part of the birds!

  • @jeboutdoors377
    @jeboutdoors377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hello great video. Love watching yall videos.

  • @TheCountryHomestead
    @TheCountryHomestead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Basically very the same process when I was a kid back home, Philippines only that we don't have the grinder to remove feathers, we take them off manually after soaking in boiling water. New follower here and loving your channel.

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Welcome to the channel! I know you will love our videos! Some are common knowledge such as this one, and some are very unusual and even humorous! Enjoy!

  • @MichaelAussie05
    @MichaelAussie05 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is amazing to see. Cheers.

  • @lesterhertel2945
    @lesterhertel2945 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for the very good video

  • @stevecarberry4851
    @stevecarberry4851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for the video!

  • @lw4769
    @lw4769 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Add a few drops of Dawn when scalding it helps break the tension of the oil on the feathers Good job on the video

  • @VintageVibesHomestead
    @VintageVibesHomestead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    THAT PLUCKER IS AWESOME! A FEW WHIZZES AROUND IN THAT THING AND HE’S AS CLEAN AS ME AFTER MY SOAK IN THE BATHTUB 😂😂😂 IT’S NOT THE NICEST CHORE PROCESSING BUT GOT TO BE DONE IF YOU WANT TO EAT GOOD 👍

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is so much easier than it used to be!

    • @VintageVibesHomestead
      @VintageVibesHomestead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@McGieHomesteadAdventures AMAZING HONESTLY, I BET THEY AREN’T CHEAP PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THOUGH 🤔

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@VintageVibesHomestead I’m thinking you’re right about that…… I don’t have one😂😂😂

    • @VintageVibesHomestead
      @VintageVibesHomestead 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@McGieHomesteadAdventures I KNOW, ANYTHING THAT’S WONDERFUL AND USEFUL USUALLY SETS YOU BACK A FAIR PENNY THESE DAYS! I WILL PUT ONE ON SANTA’S LIST FOR YA 😂😂😂

  • @JimmyOverstreet
    @JimmyOverstreet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great info ole buddy!

  • @ushopper1978ify
    @ushopper1978ify ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you so much! This was an extremely helpful video! We have a small 24 acre farm & want to raise some broilers but the processing has been a big hang up. With your video I think you have filled in all the missing pieces.

  • @jackkeeble9272
    @jackkeeble9272 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nice man thanks 👍

  • @kennethhopson7087
    @kennethhopson7087 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You are doing a great job of showing people who don't know how to do this how to do it.
    I think it is a good thing by you teaching people how to do this.

  • @sideeffectgaming7348
    @sideeffectgaming7348 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was pretty smart way of cutting the head

  • @easternkentuckyoutdoors8092
    @easternkentuckyoutdoors8092 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My Mamaw used to make homemade fried chicken from scratch. I’d kill to have a chance to taste it since she died when I was little. She’d kill them a little differently tho she’d get the chicken by the head and twirl it around like a towel and that break their neck

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was really a popular way to do it back then! I should do it on a video sometime!

  • @xkitchick
    @xkitchick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks Micah!!!! This was the funnest day yet here on the homestead!!!!

  • @revhbateman
    @revhbateman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Polyface has an excellent video on Evisceration

  • @Aballabisabon
    @Aballabisabon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great demonstration of how to process a chicken. We love April and Tommy!!! 🐔

  • @natureslovefarm
    @natureslovefarm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video

  • @charlielewis6849
    @charlielewis6849 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think I've seen that befor 🤣🤣

  • @charlessavoie2367
    @charlessavoie2367 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    People buying chicken at the store or at KFC have no business finding fault with anything in this video. They think the chicken they ate was coddled at the end like a family pet! This is real life. No chicken for the dinner table without killing birds. No guilt applies! My Husky snaps drumstick bones like I'd snap a twig.

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s very true! The farm raised bird is a much happier bird from start to finish!

  • @brianstout4362
    @brianstout4362 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My grandma would put up whole pullets in quart jars.
    👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙂🐔🍗

  • @einnor1040
    @einnor1040 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yard bird. It's what's for dinner. Liked the tumbler. Never seen one..

  • @MissSherry
    @MissSherry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So many old memories come to my mind watching this new method… thanks yet again from lil ole me 😊

  • @Keith_Hatter
    @Keith_Hatter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Them pluckers are no joke! Good instructional!

  • @Fjbcaca
    @Fjbcaca วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    so true about other videos. They never show the real detail

  • @arusticrenaissance
    @arusticrenaissance 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love love LOVE this! Thank you Micah for showing the process in a clear & concise manner!

  • @billg4630
    @billg4630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good vid..chickens were great looking..like to see more about Tommy and April's chicken setup..please

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They use pvc hoops…… you’ll get glimpses of them in the next two videos!

  • @debragerrish6278
    @debragerrish6278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This video was incredible my husband loved it,very educational I loved how the feathers came right off with that spinny thing that was cool nice job

  • @fldays6798
    @fldays6798 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    nothing wrong with a little education great video thanks for sharing keep the cameras rolling from Florida now I have a craving for chicken heart s .🐔

  • @cheryladams7945
    @cheryladams7945 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can't tell if Cynthia is having a good time or not 😃looks like she's ready to throw it out the tent 😅 Wish my grandmother had this equipment. She had 9 sons, you can imagine the chickens she had to defeather! Good video very helpful 🙂

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂😂 She’d throw me outta the tent before she’d throw a chicken out!😂😂😂😂

  • @Jared-Brubaker
    @Jared-Brubaker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I invested in a plucker 5 years ago, never regretted it 😁

  • @kitcarson1697
    @kitcarson1697 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You need a larger scalder.

  • @shannons1301
    @shannons1301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I used a pair of heat resistant gloves and hold the chicken under the water then when it goes threw the plucker it takes all the skin off of the feet great video

  • @josephsummers5659
    @josephsummers5659 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Having worked in a processing plant and running the evisceration department, I would like to point out a couple things that I think could help. First, you will get a better bleed if cut the arteries in the neck without severing the spine. 2. if the skin tears in the picker your water is too hot or you scalded too long. Lower temperature for a longer time is better.

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes I can agree…… I’m really impressed with that plucker.

    • @josephsummers5659
      @josephsummers5659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@McGieHomesteadAdventures
      Mechanical plucking is certainly easier than hand plucking.

  • @ReapWhatYouSeauxLeJeune
    @ReapWhatYouSeauxLeJeune 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great job only thing I missed is you taking out the lungs

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I always leave the lungs in. Just my preference.

    • @Keith_Hatter
      @Keith_Hatter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They don't jump around too much if ya leave them in. 🤪

  • @janetcutler9539
    @janetcutler9539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yes I do recall that video with meeting these folks. God bless.☺️

  • @newdogatplay
    @newdogatplay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is the best how to video for this procedure I've seen yet thank u to u an your friends

  • @jasoncook7836
    @jasoncook7836 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice

  • @ChuckisOutside
    @ChuckisOutside 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    We get chicken gizzards and boil them in salt water. It makes them a little less tough. Tasty. Thanks for the video. They have some great equipment. We have been using a feed sack with a hole in the corner instead of a cone. I really like the plucking machine.

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I really enjoyed working with these people and their equipment!😃

    • @joewymn1232
      @joewymn1232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I turn my gizzards into catfish fillets lol

  • @jasonross8773
    @jasonross8773 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good job Tommy and April!

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They are very wonderful people with the desire to learn!

    • @xkitchick
      @xkitchick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks Jason!!!!! Next time y’all visit we can now eat Kingdom Acres chicken!!!!

    • @tommasiero5234
      @tommasiero5234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can't wait to see ya'll again!

  • @CampDogOutdoors
    @CampDogOutdoors 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now I'm hungry for gumbo

  • @mpedmar9701
    @mpedmar9701 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good morning Micah.
    What a great educational/ training video Micah. You managed to show the whole process and did it respectfully.
    Thanks for sharing.
    Stay happy, healthy, hydrated and safe. May God continue to bless you, your family and your adventures.

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks Margie! I’m very happy with this video, but more happy to have you back in my comments again!

    • @mpedmar9701
      @mpedmar9701 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@McGieHomesteadAdventures
      Thank you Micah! 💚

  • @gSmith-h3v
    @gSmith-h3v ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Could yousave the gizzard for later and grind it up when you're making pork sausage? Just a thought.

  • @SherrysCraftinggarden
    @SherrysCraftinggarden 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for showing us

  • @thecamocowboyoutdoors5693
    @thecamocowboyoutdoors5693 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very good video Brother! Well filmed and informative. Thanks for sharing and have a good day!

  • @DRFALLIS
    @DRFALLIS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Growing up gizzards were so tough when mom cooked them they were hardly eatable. Then she learned to cook them in a crockpot for 3-4 hours. They come out tender and full of flavor. Now the are one of my favorite cuts of chicken. You can still fry them after the crockpot cooking but I don’t bother. Try them slow cooked I think you will change your mind.

  • @AaricHale
    @AaricHale 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You did an awesome job on the video ! Those chicken pluckers make it nice . I can't say I have ever butchered any of the chickens we had . Thanks for sharing and have a great day !

  • @MD-kf5er
    @MD-kf5er ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Would like to know how to pluck without the machine. Some of us are poor, gotta do it old ways.

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  ปีที่แล้ว

      You just pull out the feathers!😅

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don’t have one of those poker machines either. Watch this video and you will see how to do it. th-cam.com/video/W_k4gCjws1w/w-d-xo.html

  • @w4ame
    @w4ame 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good skills to have! I appreciate you taking the time to put out this video.

  • @dirty3893
    @dirty3893 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Have you ever thought about posting your videos on Rumble where they don’t censor you?

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’ll be on Gab soon😁

    • @dirty3893
      @dirty3893 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@McGieHomesteadAdventures I got a gab account but I just don’t use it much. Rumble will monetize your videos just like TH-cam. I would highly recommend making a TruthSocial account to advertise your videos. I get more engagement there than I do on any platform. I was able to be part of the beta testing team. From February until today I’ve already got 80,000 followers. They also make it super easy for creators to get a verified account. I had over 100,000 followers on Twitter and they wouldn’t verify my account. They actually deleted about 40,000 followers when they deleted President Trump from social media. I’ve been stuck at 80.6 K followers for the past year now. They won’t allow my account to grow.

  • @BLUEGRASSTRAPPER
    @BLUEGRASSTRAPPER 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great informative video 📹 👍, that chicken plugger thing is pretty awesome!

  • @stevecray8282
    @stevecray8282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent video. Thank you for sharing. That cone is a nifty trick.👍🏻

  • @christinehanna1699
    @christinehanna1699 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I bet you could make a "frisky chicken plucker" lol 😂 using an old metal Sears Kenmore washing machine on spin cycle using silicone probing fingers 🤌 inside the washing machine drum .if anyone could do it I bet you could lol 😂

  • @ronaldbeatty9423
    @ronaldbeatty9423 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was a good way to do it thanks. Hope you all have a great week.

  • @reavisstockard2994
    @reavisstockard2994 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great job on the video! I've dressed chicken's my whole life but never seen a tumbler work, that's amazing! I'm going to share this on my Facebook if you don't mind.

  • @beeamerica5024
    @beeamerica5024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's a pretty slick way of doing it but I still kind of like the old fashioned where you just ring the neck and watch it run around the yard I always thought that was fun 😁🐝

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We just can’t put that on TH-cam 😂😂😂

    • @jh9282
      @jh9282 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ⁠@@McGieHomesteadAdventures I can’t imagine the uproar if that actually made it on TH-cam. Lol PETA would be all over that! 😂😂 thank you very much for a very informative, educational video. Well done sir! 🍻

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jh9282 Your welcome! I love making videos like this that actually help people……. To bad TH-cam punishes us for it!

    • @jh9282
      @jh9282 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@McGieHomesteadAdventures there are an awful lot of people out there who can’t handle knowing where their food comes from and that it’s a bit of a gruesome process to get it from the pasture to the table.

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jh9282 True! They have chosen to go the path of pre packaged and processed over hands on, and this is leading to lab raised meat as the cancer rates increase as well as other diseases!

  • @greenghost6416
    @greenghost6416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Winner, winner chicken dinner

  • @jimjordan5630
    @jimjordan5630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I still remember the first time that I saw chickens being processed. My daddy took me with him to a friend and co-worker of his, Mr Burkhalter, who was butchering some of his chickens. He had a pot of water over a small open fire somewhat next to a stump. He'd grab a chicken and hold it on the stump and chop off the head with an ax. When the bird settled down he'd dunk it in the water and process from there. I still remember one chicken got loose and flopped around and got under an out building close to where the processing was being done. Mr Burkhalter got a straightened out wire clothes hanger and bent a hook on one end and got on his hands and knees (and looked like his shoulders too! 😂) and "hooked" the chicken and pulled it out. To a kid that was surprising and funny and the first time I remember hearing "flopping around like a chicken with his head chopped off!". I was probably only about 4 or 5 years old. That has stuck with me all these years. I'm going on 69 now. I've processed a few chickens of my own since then. Even though I no longer have chickens I still want me one of those pluckers! 😆. Also, I love dinner fried chicken hearts, livers and gizzards! Hearts and gizzards are very good stewed as well! Thanks for this video!

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You’re absolutely welcome Jim! It’s been a great thing all my life to be able to do my own processing!

  • @nicholassaples8192
    @nicholassaples8192 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We be putting them gizzards and them hearts in the pressure cooker 20 mins why whoohey they is good in soup with the livers either cooked separate or last minute in the soup. Don't be forgettin the feet now also together in the cooker
    Yaw'll be blessed now ❤

  • @jeboutdoors377
    @jeboutdoors377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Have yall thought about building a a chicken drying rack out of pvc pipe.

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No I’ve never needed to dry my chickens. Why?

    • @jeboutdoors377
      @jeboutdoors377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@McGieHomesteadAdventures i seen Justin Rhode video and they put the chicken in ice water to cool them down later they pull them out to dry them then when they dry they bag them.

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh ok…. I can understand that!

  • @dwightherrington7793
    @dwightherrington7793 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    147 is the perfect temp ive butchered them y entire life.

  • @larrylapierre2295
    @larrylapierre2295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great information, thanks

  • @ozz5350
    @ozz5350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    👍👏👏👏

  • @davec5153
    @davec5153 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've always wanted to try chicken livers but i can never find them. They're supposed to taste better than lambs liver, i don't know why they wouldn't sell them, they probably end up in dog food.

  • @jonathanguerrero6642
    @jonathanguerrero6642 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can’t pick which is better to cut the head completely off or do a v cut and then stab the brain from inside on about the roof or the mouth. I prefer v cut for me:/

  • @lesterhertel2945
    @lesterhertel2945 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Make sure you get the lungs

    • @McGieHomesteadAdventures
      @McGieHomesteadAdventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I almost always leave em in and cook or fry them intact…… might be frowned on, but I like it 😂

  • @dwightherrington7793
    @dwightherrington7793 ปีที่แล้ว

    Its hard to beleive theres ppl who dont know how to butcher anything