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When we were at the fair Teen Son’s Ag teacher mentioned the
person who had butchered the turkeys in the past was no longer available. Teen Son found out it was $25 a bird to do the butchering and
volunteered. The problem is we are not
real confident of the job we are doing!
So he gathered three friends, borrowed the pot a wonderful friend of
ours uses to cook crawfish and got to work.
Well the kids got to work – I took pictures.
The boys put the birds in a cut down traffic cone then cut the veins so the bird would bleed out.
One of the FFA girls older sisters knew what she was doing and gave lessons.
She sure did make the day so much easier!
They started doing the plucking with a plucker attached to a drill.
These birds were 25 to 40 lbs and holding them in the air got old really fast.
The kids switched over to plucking by hand.
Posers!
Not to be out done by his big brother.
The first bird gook over 40 minutes and by the time we got
down to the fourth turkey the kids had it down to 25 minutes. 4 kids working 25 minutes to earn $25.00 is not
a great profit. Teen son enjoyed doing
the work and plans to raise a few turkeys to sell for Thanksgiving.
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