We Bought a Farm: Time to process some turkeys!!!

Last Sunday we processed turkeys. It's always an exhausting but very rewarding day. Here are some photos of our adventures. We actually didn't get any of Hannah and Eddie who were helping too!

Quality control in the garage -- these young ladies made sure all little pin feathers were removed: Kara, Ana, and Abigail.

Grama removing pin feathers.

A friend from residency: Matt, came into help. Here he, Jacob, and JB are taking the heads and feet off the birds followed by a removal of the "giblets".

After we were done with the turkeys we brought some of our own inside and broke them down in preparation to grind the meat.

Gabe and I weighing a turkey.

Grama doing quality control

Lovely ladies.

Because the turkeys were so heavy, we created a "chute" that the kiddos could walk them up to the processing area. In the past we had to carry them and mannnn that got tiring.

Grampa got this set-up ready for us to work under.

Anni bringing a bird that juts died to the "scalder"

We were so blessed that despite the fact that it was 20 degrees when our day started and our hoses wouldn't run, there was no rain! It turned into a beautiful day surrounded by MANY MANY days of rain here.

Grampa the great running the scalder.

A little bit closer look at our "chute"

Grama's sister Betsy was here to help!