Fried, Pulled, Souped or Roasted??

Chicken butchering day is here!!!!  These 100 chicks came to us on March 18:

They have led a pampered life for the last  9 weeks. They were fed a 24-hour organic, non-GMO buffet and were out foraging for bugs and seeds as soon as they had enough adult feathers to keep them warm.

Today brings an early morning trip to Duncan Poultry in Missouri Valley, a prayer of thanksgiving for their short life with us, and a morning filled with weighing, bagging and delivering. 

Isaac & Gabriel are the official "chicken catchers".  Luckily, these are the slow & fat variety so they are pretty simple to snag.

Who says a horse trailer is just for horses??  We have hauled our St. Bernard (King Louie), goats, sheep, pigs, and even fruit trees in there.  

The first chickens we had butchered were hauled in Rubbermaid buckets.  What a nightmare.  We've come so far:):)