Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Meat chickens

Ok, so we have a website here that is very similar to craigs list. It's called KSL. It is simply a place where people can sell stuff online locally. There's a free section that I always keep a close eye on (cause I'm a cheap bastard), and the other day, I saw that someone nearby was giving away FREE meat chickens! I called the guy up, and he said that he had five available. I told my wife I was going to go pick some of them up. She looked at me and said "Cam, only get two." She said this because she knows better than anyone that sometimes I can get over my head with my dumb little projects. I agreed, and left to go get the chickens. I showed up at the guy's house, and we walked into his back yard, and upon seeing his chicken coop, I saw the biggest chickens I have ever layed eyes on. He started loading them into the large box that I brought, and I told him that I only wanted two (secretly I wanted 3 though), and he said "Well, I kind of want to get rid of all of them at once. It's ok, I'll give you another box". He gave me all five, and loaded them into boxes. I could seriously barley lift a box with 3 of them, and I'm a fairly strong person. I came home and sheepishly told my wife how in a moment of weakness, I took all five. She was annoyed at first, but it was a bit playful, so it was ok. So I've never actually butchered a chicken before, and now I have 5 nearly turkey sized chickens that I have to dispose of. So after watching a few YouTube videos I dove into it. I took a while, and I called in a friend to save me some time. Needless to say he had never killed/butchered chickens either, but it's really not that difficult. When all was said and done, I ended up with about 30 lbs of straight chicken meat. It was too much to even fit in my freezer. I had to enlist the help of my parents freezer. It took a while, but now I have some good experience with butchering chickens, and a whole ton of meat, and it was all free. It was great.

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