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| Hosanna |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 09:21:50 AM
We butchered chickens today. I had incubated our own eggs last spring and had a bunch of roos. We kept 2 roos and the only 5 hens I had. We got a total of 6 chickens in the freezer. I was little grossed out, watching my DH do it; but I guess I need to get over it. He's done it his whole life; he didn't even blink. Whew! I'm just glad it's over....
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| chaddsgirl |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 7:51:41 PM
By the way, when Sheri (lynner) said she was sick and pregnant the first time she had to butcher a rabbit, she was pregnant with ME!!!!
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| chaddsgirl |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 7:39:07 PM
Jodi- your signatures says it all! Women are notorious for doing whatever task presents itself. I always say, a woman's work is anything that needs to be done. Sometimes, in a fit of frustration with my own DH, I even consider woman's work to be anything a man has left undone long enough to make you mad. :) I have always prided myself on my ability to outwork almost any man. My father used to tell my sister and I "The two of you are better men than all these guys you've dated." And he was right. Made finding a husband pretty tough. LOL!!
While butchering animals is a skill I personally value very highly, and strive to learn more about and perfect in myself, it is not for everyone. I know there are many farmgirls on this site who cringe at the idea, and that is o.k. Being a farmgirl IS truly a condition of the heart.
I am very happy to have seen such a wide variety of skills possessed by the farmgirls on this site. From sewing and cooking and gardening to doctoring their own herds and flocks. We all possess valuable "Farmgirl" skills and it is our ability encourage one another that really makes us shine as a group.
Hosana - Congratulations and Kudos to you!! I'm hoping to do the same myself this summer before the grand Hog Butchering takes place in the fall. All I can say is, You Go Girl!!!
Teresa - I have a friend who has lost many a calf to his wife and daughter making pets out of them then refusing to eat them. He put a stop to it by making them name the calves This and That. So once they were in the freezer they could have "a little bit of This or a little bit of That" for supper. Your post made me think of him. LOL!!! It does make a big difference though, if I know we're going to eat them, I do tend to distance myself from them emotionally. I think about the fact that I wouldn't eat one of my dogs, so I don't develop relationships with the "dinner". :)
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| LisaTwo |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 6:40:23 PM
I struggle with this so much. I can cut up a fryer and clean the guts out of a roaster after they're dead, but man GETTING them dead just does me in (no pun intended). And women's work?... I haul hay, shovel poo, haggle with breeders, medicate and castrate- Please define "men's work" 'cause I think I'm getting the short end of the stick here!
Smiles,
Lisa
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| Prairie Princess |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 6:02:39 PM
Guess I'll never be a farmgirl, either, then...bleck. I don't have a problem with the concept (even tho I'm mostly vegetarian), but it would have to be Justin doing the butchering if we ever kept critters for meat. But that will never happen. Because if we do get chickens or whatever with the intention of raising them for meat, I will name them. And fall in love. And then it's all over.
But roosters do have attitude problems....that might make it easier...
~Jodi
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| Hosanna |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 5:27:49 PM
I guess I'll never be a real farmgirl according to some people's estimations - butchering is not something I think I will ever get used to. Period. Whatever happened to "Farmgirl is a condition of the heart?"
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| happydaze |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 5:23:09 PM
So this year I am going to raise meat birds, BUT I will take them to the Amish nearby for butchering. |
| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 1:00:57 PM
Ok , you call yourself Farm Girls, lol, butchering poultry and rabbits is womens work. Please do yourself favors, and learn all aspects of farm/ranch life, and I hope you never need to know it all, but if you do, you know how. Some hints; never name what you are gonna eat, do not handle them any more than you need to to keep them semi-tame in order to check their health. Take a deep breath and do what you gotta do in order to feed your families the healthiest way possible. If you raise it, and butcher it yourself, you know exactly what is in it.
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| Lynner |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 12:25:18 PM
Hosanna,
Good for you. I had to help my hubby kill and dress a rabbit about 31 years ago, and I was pregnant and sick at the time. I Could not eat it, or chicken for months afterward. Now we are discussing raising meat birds, and I really want the more natural safer meat. So, my time is coming. So I say, kudos to you. And you inspire me to press forward. I know the benefits outweigh the difficulty. Besides, organic chicken is not cheap. That alone should be encourgement enough.
Sheri
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| paradiseplantation |
Posted - Jan 19 2010 : 10:03:09 AM
I'm with you Hosanna. I participated for the first time a few months back. Ugh! But, it is a part of farm life, and I can't always leave the gross stuff up to dh. I'm proud of you farmgirl!
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