Posted on 09/17/2010 5:20:15 PM PDT by Bean Counter
Wrong**** Not true there is no aspiration when the head is cut off. You need fluid in the mouth for aspiration and the fluid goes into the lungs....(thats aspiration) the flopping around is just the reflex....I have done a couple of turkeys myself....the only thing that freaked me out the first time was the beak continued opening and closing as it lay on the barn floor...about 15 seconds
No one that kills a fowl for meat would let it flop around, as that bruise's the meat.
We did it basically the same way....used #10 tin cans, cut out a hole in the bottom after nailing to a shed. Cut their heads off and let them bleed, dip in boiling water and then pick the feathers off, gut them and they are “good to go” as they say today. I can remember my Grandma wringing their heads off and us kids chasing the headless chicken around. We were dirt poor and you got your fun where you could find it.....
When I gave on to my newly wed daughter, she called me up freaking wanting to know what that long thing was on one end of the chicken. She had me stumped until I realized the neck was left on the chicken and she had only seen them inside the chicken with the giblets.
If I gave her another one, she said I had to cut off the neck before giving it to her....she was a born and bred city girl..I started farming after 40...
I'd bet you had a better childhood than many middle class kids do today...and more fun....didn't need a helmet to ride a bike, didn't need seatbelts (if you get caught you owe the government money) Could stay out after dark, wander around the countryside, catch polliwogs, horny toads etc.
I loved catching bee's with my hands and putting them in a jar..(I was a city girl and that was about as close to wildlife as I could get.
But my parents let me spend week-ends with their friend that lived on 5 acres surrounded by empty land and we would go for tramps in the woods...I was under 5 the first time and still remember them and loved them dearly....:O)
I have heard that dangling participles can be quite embarassing......LOL
So was this not one of the more entertaining Friday nite threads in a while??
Thanks for the fun replies. I often have to shake my head at some of the things my Grandkids come up with, being city slickers. Picky eaters.....drive me nuts... Growing up we ate whatever was put in front of us, most of which we had a hand in growing or feeding. Never thought much about it because everyone we knew did the same.
It was indeed a rich life in many ways. I now live outside a small town on just an acre of land but we sure are enjoying get out of the city. Have a great weekend.
I will admit I am a picky eater. I grew up at a time when there was ample food but my parents did not. Well my Father often did not have ample food tho he probably had adequate. Daddy’s family were prominent but poor. Grand daddy was a state senator and school principle and pastor. He never seemed to care for money and they never had a lot.
My Mother grew up on a large and prosperous farm. They had plenty but maybe not a great degree of different kinds of food as they grew most of theirs.
Possibly because of the way he grew up, Daddy never met a meal he didn’t like. I mean never. Mother once told me she had never prepared a meal that daddy complained about. Daddy always enjoyed his meals. He would close his eyes and chew his food as if savoring every bit of taste.
I saw a Japanese TV show where a farmer gal used a minature gas chamber. She just put the chicken in the box, closed the lid, turned on the gas, the chicken went to sleep and didn’t wake up. I don’t know what gas it was, but I think it was CO2.
I like that method.
My hope and dream is to buy a small farm and raise chickens and turkeys. I would raise them for eggs and meat, and I gotta learn how to slaughter them.
Thats going to be hard.
Is there such a thing as a stun gun for a chicken?
Some slaughterhouses are using carbon dioxide to humanely kill them.
How do you do that without squishing them flat?
That part comes in a later video...on making the gravy.
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