Well, last night I got one of the turkeys and put him in a dog kennel for the night. This morning, got up, got the kids off to school, and then processed the turkey. That’s right – that little turkey will be a part of our holiday dinner.
It wasn’t big – only turned out to be 8 1/2 pounds after it was all cleaned, but I’ll do that along with a ham and we should be more than fine.
I honestly thought it would be worse – took me 1 1/2 hours to do the 1 turkey, but not all of it was actual processing time – most of it was getting the feathers off and waiting for the scalding water to warm up enough.
Would I do it again? Definitely.
Would I process all the chickens? Sure – the only thing I really think I would need is a feather plucker and if I do turkeys next year, I would need to have a bigger scalder because the turkey fryer that I used wouldn’t hold a bird that is much larger than the one I had.
In a way, I found it to be satisfying to do. I know that I just did something that will provide a meal for my entire family. No, it wasn’t as big as I would have liked – but it was the largest Tom we had out there right now besides the one I am keeping for breeding so I can hatch out eggs next year. It’s funny as I worried about it as the day got closer and now I wish I had planned on doing more.
Next time……..
