Family lore has it my 1930s Depression era suburban forbears found a great deal on ten (10) chickens that they couldn’t pass up.
Turns out though, these were live chickens. This came as quite the surprise, and they had no experience whatsoever with slaughtering or gutting poultry or plucking or any of that kind of thing.
For some reason they decided to do this in the basement, and was quite a debacle. LOL!!
—”Turns out though, these were live chickens.”
A friend won a thanksgiving turkey and accessories in a lottery at his VFW.
Not said, it was a live turkey!!!
He said it made a massive mess of his car.
He did not quite know what to do with it, but his grandmother sure did!!!
My daughter and I bought 30 meat chicks for 0.50 a piece last year. She raised them, had them slaughtered and defeathered. We shrunk wrapped them. Cost per chicken with feed and processing was less than 1.50 each. I still have 3 in my freezer, about 7-8 pounds. They are THE best tasting chickens ever. We will be doing that again this year.
So... You come from a long line of chicken pluckers... (hee-hee)