Entries Tagged as 'electricity'
It was a chilly 13 degrees below zero when dawn broke the other morning and the least alarmed seemed to be our livestock. Even the chickens were out and about unfazed. It’s just us humans who take special note of these extremes. But where would we be without electricity when the world is frozen over? […]
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Tags:electricity·water·winter
We’ve scheduled September 25 to slaughter and dress our 23 Freedom Ranger broilers. That involves killing the chickens, scalding them, removing the feathers, then gutting them out. We ordered a 14-gallon fiberglass scalder for the job. It has a 240-volt heating element in it, which is top of the line. But it also means installing […]
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Tags:chickens·electricity·slaughtering
