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We've been given a dozen old layers from our organic egg supplier. he's getting in some new girls but cant bring himself to butcher up his old pals, so he's offered them to us. (yay!!!
) Dh is going to kill them and then i get the lovely job of cleaning them. Right now the plan is for him to go to the farm, kill them there and then bring them home for me to deal with.
i've gotten a basic idea of what should be done from a couple of sites on the web and from books that i've read in the past--i'm going on memory from the books though!
any tips or hints from mama's who've btdt?
oh, and do i HAVE to pluck feathers? or can i just remove the skin? we're not big chicken skin eaters anyways... And if i HAVE to pluck, what on earth should i do with the feathers from 12 chickens?


i've gotten a basic idea of what should be done from a couple of sites on the web and from books that i've read in the past--i'm going on memory from the books though!
any tips or hints from mama's who've btdt?
oh, and do i HAVE to pluck feathers? or can i just remove the skin? we're not big chicken skin eaters anyways... And if i HAVE to pluck, what on earth should i do with the feathers from 12 chickens?
