As morning dawns the chicken butchering crew had been long up preparing for the exciting day! It's a long, yet rewarding day. All the time, effort, and care of the broilers for the past 8 weeks culminate today to provide superb nutritious food for our patrons. Extra help is always appreciated and adds to the fun. Today Grandpa and Grandma Steiner are here and then a surprise crew from IL shows up to lend a helping hand!
The scalding water must be at just the right temperature and the defeatherer ran for the precise number of seconds. This is Mahlon's area of expertise.
Above one of our surprise IL helpers details a chicken. This involves a going over it for unwanted feathers or innards previously missed. This is the most time consuming part of the process. Then the broiler goes on to the ice cold holding tank to await weighing and packaging.
The broiler is weighed, packaged, and taken to a large refrigerator in our garage to await a fortunate patron. Every part of a pasture raised, organically fed broiler is nourishing for your health: the naturally occurring healthy, flavor giving fat, delicious meat, and mineral packed bones for broth will impart health and strength to our patrons.
Soon our patrons arrive and we enjoy catching up with them and meeting first time customers.
From our Natural Farm to your plate!!!!
Fresh milk
Homemade cottage cheese
Sugar Snap peas
Roasted beets
REAL CHICKEN
