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The family brings forward its poultry processing plans, alongside a new plug-in solar test.
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We Had to Butcher Our Chickens Today, Here's What Happened
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- 0:09Before dawn, the couple makes espresso and explains why chicken processing has moved forward a week.
- 1:36Family and helpers gather outside for prayer before beginning the work.
- 1:50The processing setup includes hot-water scalding, a mechanical plucker and an outdoor table.
- 4:12The husband attributes the birds' rapid growth to a feed switch after their usual feed became unavailable.
- 6:37The kitchen team bags, weighs and labels the chilled chickens.
Espresso comes before daylight, and the coolers need ice. Better Together Homestead's most watched new upload follows a chicken-processing day that arrived a week sooner than the family had planned.
In "We Had to Butcher Our Chickens Today, Here's What Happened", the couple explains that their birds grew quickly after a switch to conventional feed when their usual feed was unavailable. They attribute the change in schedule to that rapid growth. Helpers gather outside for prayer before the work begins, with a mechanical plucker and an outdoor processing table sharing the workload.
The first batch takes about two and a half hours. Later, the chilled birds are bagged, weighed and labeled in the kitchen. "That was sooner than we expected, but I'm thankful we had all the stuff to pivot," the wife says. The practical setup gets attention in the comments, especially the table's height, while one viewer recalls plucking chickens by hand.
The upload has drawn roughly 3,600 views, the larger audience of the channel's two new videos. The other, "We Tested Plug-In Solar (Here's What Happened). Mango Power's 1200w", returns to homestead electricity. An earlier solar installation video, "He Agreed to Buy a Puppy If We Did THIS (Mango Power S)", is drawing the most daily views among the channel's active uploads.
Across the channel, daily views are running at more than twice their usual pace, although subscribers were unchanged over the week. That makes this a week of extra viewing rather than audience expansion, with poultry processing and plug-in power supplying two very different kinds of household preparation.
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What viewers say
Love that table. I grew up plucking by hand, that machine looks brutal.
@KathyMartin-l2bSee it on YouTubeLike that table...nice height too. Well done.
@dhansonranchSee it on YouTubeWe've got to process our chickens this Sunday.
@LangleyAcresSee it on YouTube
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- Channel views, last 7 days
- 136,378
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Which machine helps remove feathers in the family's chicken-processing video?
The family runs the scalded chickens through a Yardbird mechanical plucker.