I finally slapped together a well working chicken processing area under our carport for a shade area. I have a lot of improvements I would like to make but this really worked well to get us started at a cheap cost. The only thing not pictured is a turkey fryer that we bought at an auction for scalding the chickens for plucking. most everything is recycled stuff or auction finds including the nice stainless steel sink we scored for $30. Click images for more explanation. We have since processed 17 birds (to be sold soon). It's such a great thing. Just yesterday we had another young rooster causing chaos and our setup is so easy to whip things out for one bird. The only difference being that I hand plucked the roo instead of breaking out the pluck-er. Hand plucking isn't too hard but it sure is tedious. He put up a good chase in the yard. He was a 4 month old easter egger roo. He went right from evisceration to the grill for an afternoon meal. It was the best chicken I ever tasted and very rewarding :D I started off being slow and anal in cleaning the birds. My second day doing it I managed to get a lot faster at it. We also did 6 midget white turkeys. I tell ya things are much more quiet and peaceful around here already.
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