We have almost everything in place now to do the thanksgiving processing tomorrow. We spent the day putting everything in place, cleaning, and the fun part... catching the turkeys. It is actually more "herding" than catching.
It went very well this year. Instead of trying to grab them one at a time, we set up the stock trailer in a narrow spot and created a block on both sides. This made a type of "chute" leading to the open back door of the trailer. Then we added a ramp up to the trailer for the turkeys to walk up. With the whole family helping, we slowly walked half the turkeys into the trailer and closed the first partition. Then we walked the other half in and closed the back door. Quite easily we ended up with all but 2 turkeys inside the trailer! this will make tomorrow so much more efficient.
The equipment is ready, I just have a little bit of plumbing to try a new approach to the slow flow water for processing. I can do that in the morning while the scalder is heating up.
Time for some rest! Tomorrow will be a full day!
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