Tomorrow is the first chicken processing day of the season, so today we have to run around like...

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Tomorrow is the first chicken processing day of the season, so today we have to run around like crazy getting everything set up. This involves hauling major furniture around, getting out and testing appliances that haven’t been used since October, and cleaning and cleaning and cleaning and cleaning, and bleaching and sanitizing literally every surface. 

But yesterday my mom and dad came over, and we hauled the stuff out of the attic of the granary and down onto the farm truck, Mom was sure Dad would get squashed by the mattress coming out the attic door but instead he just dropped the mattress, straight over his own head into a ditch. 

Which is fine because I have the thing in an allergy encasement waterproof thing, which is slowly getting trashed, and that’s fine, because I’ll get another one at some point. (I don’t have allergies, I just figure that’s the best way to keep ants from building a nest in the thing, or whatever.)

We got the yurt up with less drama even than usual, and it’s all set, but everything is piled up onto the bed and I figured we’d take another night to get it set up properly. 
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bomberqueen17:random photo dump– there’s

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yes that's chicken poop

i went to the museum with farmbaby and this is my favorite part. this was two weeks ago but still relevant.

bomberqueen17:

random photo dump– there’s a whole album on facebook of just the slaughter pics, so if you want to see a how to on evisceration, I put a series up. IDK if the link works but here it is on the farm page. 

i’m reblogging this because #1 I like the photos, and #2 there’s photos of a chicken processing day from last year, in case anyone wasn’t following me then and wanted to see them. IDK if I’ll be photographing tomorrow; I might, but I also feel like i probably have enough photos of that particular activity. 

Gotta go transform the barn from hard dingy winter use to bright shiny sanitary processing facility! (It’s a NY 5a-certified facility, and subject to state inspection and up to code and all that, and we get the water tested and all, and my background in food service means I lose my absolute shit about sanitation which means they mostly let me be in charge of the bleach.)
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