Later is better then never I guess. I forgot I had these and just found them a bit ago. We had the perfect day for chicken butchering. Not too hot and just windy enough to keep most of the fly's away. There was 3 couples, my mom who just showed up and helped, and Momma T who brought her 3 little T's. Daddy T joined us later just in time for a store run and supper. So we had 7 adults and 7 children and we did roughly 200 birds in 6 hours. 2 of our cleaners only stayed until lunch then had to go. 1 came back later to help finish up. Not too shabby!! We used a hooded plucker and the maul gropen for a scalder. Papa did all the eviscerating and us 5 cleaners didn't even fall too far behind. My Mom and B, the above B's wife :), had never chicken butchered or hadn't in YEARS so we had a small training drill too. Everyone did really well and soon I stopped re-checking birds which made it go even faster. 8 hours after we started all the birds that needed cutting up were cut up and everything else except 10 were gone or in the freezer!!! Slick!! We cut them up for ease of use. With 4 people cutting up and 1 bagging this in incredibly fast. We cut up 65 birds in about 40 minutes... with delays and switch ups. That last 10 went the next day as planned. 
Momma T and I cleaning birds at the end of the day. Mrs. B took the pictures. Papa is in the back cleaning out the scalder. That black thing on the right is the plucker.
Momma T and I cleaning birds at the end of the day. Mrs. B took the pictures. Papa is in the back cleaning out the scalder. That black thing on the right is the plucker.
Mr. B, Glen and the 7 children enjoying a cool treat at the end of the day. Yes they all washed first. :)
J caught this chicken all by himself.
B and Uncle R making the switch from block to scalder. That's half of Papa you see.
J and Glen catching chickens with Girl T looking on. She caught a few too.
Here is our friend Mr. B carrying a chicken to the block. Mr. B learned a valuable lesson this day. He went to catch the 1st chicken of the day and jumped in there and scared the flock so bad that they just ran right over the fence and we spent the next 3o minutes trying to get them in!! And he missed the chicken!! We all laughed at him he was so excited to get this done. He laughed too. This is right after that mess. Yes we chop heads instead of hang in cones. Our cones got lost in the shuffle of too many moves and we find this works just as well. 
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With that much help the process goes fast. Good meat when done right
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