have you ever wondered how those little nuggets get to those cardboard boxes in happy meals. well i learned first hand the other day when i helped a couple of ladies kill 30+ chickens at the ranch!
here's how it's done.
1. first you must catch the chicken
2. tie the chicken upside down from a tree using a slip knot. both feet in the knot please.
3. hold the chicken's head and find the exact spot to cut on the neck.
4. apply pressure to the kitchen knife you are using and cut the head off. don't be suprised if it takes an enormous amount more of strength than you intended. these guys are tough.
5. run for your life from the flapping blood-splattering headless body.
6. return to the now dead chicken and remove from tree.
7. place body in boiling water. this helps to de-tatch the feathers.
8. cut off feet and other unmentionable extremeties that would not be appetizing.
9. make some precise incisions and remove the possible eggs that are inside of the chicken.
10. gut the chicken. save the stomach.
so this is what seth and i did on our ranch day. we had heard that the chickens that live in the coop below our house had not been producing eggs very well and were goin to be killed to be sold for meat. so when i saw the ladies beginning their work that morning i really wanted to go down and takes some pictures and see how it is done. of course i couldn't just go gawk at them without offering to help so seth and i both learned out to kill and gut a chicken in the process. some other interns walked by while we were helping and were apalled at the fact we were "aiding and abedding the chicken murderers". in all honesty it was really gross...but this is life here! livestock is a way of life and way to support and feed a family. this is how they feed their kids! i felt a lot less guilty about the one little chicken life i took when i thought about how hard those women have to work for EVERYTHING in their lives, including the chicken on their table.
here's how it's done.
1. first you must catch the chicken
2. tie the chicken upside down from a tree using a slip knot. both feet in the knot please.
3. hold the chicken's head and find the exact spot to cut on the neck.
4. apply pressure to the kitchen knife you are using and cut the head off. don't be suprised if it takes an enormous amount more of strength than you intended. these guys are tough.
5. run for your life from the flapping blood-splattering headless body.
6. return to the now dead chicken and remove from tree.
7. place body in boiling water. this helps to de-tatch the feathers.
8. cut off feet and other unmentionable extremeties that would not be appetizing.
9. make some precise incisions and remove the possible eggs that are inside of the chicken.
10. gut the chicken. save the stomach.
so this is what seth and i did on our ranch day. we had heard that the chickens that live in the coop below our house had not been producing eggs very well and were goin to be killed to be sold for meat. so when i saw the ladies beginning their work that morning i really wanted to go down and takes some pictures and see how it is done. of course i couldn't just go gawk at them without offering to help so seth and i both learned out to kill and gut a chicken in the process. some other interns walked by while we were helping and were apalled at the fact we were "aiding and abedding the chicken murderers". in all honesty it was really gross...but this is life here! livestock is a way of life and way to support and feed a family. this is how they feed their kids! i felt a lot less guilty about the one little chicken life i took when i thought about how hard those women have to work for EVERYTHING in their lives, including the chicken on their table.
-reb.
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