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hilarious irony: took yurt down today, am sleeping in guest bedroom. radiator was turned off and door was closed. it is goddamn freezing in here and i was cozier in the yurt. lololol etcetera.
i need to go to sleep early because tomorrow is going to be so goddamn long. i was so tired at like, 6pm. and now i’m just. O.O Ugh.
Start time 8:00, so I gotta get out there for setup at 7:00. We’ve got 81 turkeys from this farm, plus we’re processing 30 turkeys from another farm (this is legal, since we have NY 5a approval), plus we’re doing 5 more turkeys for yet another dude as a favor. So we have to mark all those carcasses so they’re easy to separate back out.
Optimistically, we can process about 20 birds an hour. So we may well be out there for six hours. That’s not unheard-of. It’s a long day.
But then those thirty birds have to be packaged. So we’re going to have to come back after a lunch break to let the carcasses chill in the chill tanks, and then set up again and fire up the shrink wrapping thing and package them, which is brutal hard work.
I know I do chicken processing all the time, but the main, crucial thing here is that the biggest chicken I’ve ever processed was close to seven pounds once it was done and ready for packaging.
The biggest turkey I’ve ever packaged was about 28 pounds.
I’m really not looking forward to this, but we’ve done everything we can, that slaughter area is as ergonomic as we can make it, we’ve got a veteran core crew who’ve all been around for almost all the chicken days this year and many for even longer.
There’s just no way to make it be less work. So. I really got to go to sleep, and i wish I weren’t freezing.
hilarious irony: took yurt down today, am sleeping in guest bedroom. radiator was turned off and door was closed. it is goddamn freezing in here and i was cozier in the yurt. lololol etcetera.
i need to go to sleep early because tomorrow is going to be so goddamn long. i was so tired at like, 6pm. and now i’m just. O.O Ugh.
Start time 8:00, so I gotta get out there for setup at 7:00. We’ve got 81 turkeys from this farm, plus we’re processing 30 turkeys from another farm (this is legal, since we have NY 5a approval), plus we’re doing 5 more turkeys for yet another dude as a favor. So we have to mark all those carcasses so they’re easy to separate back out.
Optimistically, we can process about 20 birds an hour. So we may well be out there for six hours. That’s not unheard-of. It’s a long day.
But then those thirty birds have to be packaged. So we’re going to have to come back after a lunch break to let the carcasses chill in the chill tanks, and then set up again and fire up the shrink wrapping thing and package them, which is brutal hard work.
I know I do chicken processing all the time, but the main, crucial thing here is that the biggest chicken I’ve ever processed was close to seven pounds once it was done and ready for packaging.
The biggest turkey I’ve ever packaged was about 28 pounds.
I’m really not looking forward to this, but we’ve done everything we can, that slaughter area is as ergonomic as we can make it, we’ve got a veteran core crew who’ve all been around for almost all the chicken days this year and many for even longer.
There’s just no way to make it be less work. So. I really got to go to sleep, and i wish I weren’t freezing.
