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This post is not for the faint of heart... to some of you - you will laugh..... me..... i did the girly jump up and down and said "GROSSSSSSSS" even with no one around - so I had to call Joe and tell him.....
On to my 2 second story.
Sometimes you have to put an animal down for whatever reason. This happens on farms as well believe it or not - and we usually do it ourselves. Today it was a broiler chicken - but I wasn't butchering it - it's head was so pecked at by other birds, you could almost see the skull. So I had to put this little one down - it was only 1-2 pounds live weight while the other ones born the same day are approximately 4-5 pounds already, so you can see right away that something is not right with this bird. I have learned how to humanely kill a bird fast by breaking it's neck right behind the skull at the spinal cord. Good thing I went to that class!! So I tell it I'm sorry and start pulling like I was told (I've done it a couple times before without a hitch so I'm not hesitant or anything).... but the head popped off!!!!! I mean completely OFF!! This is NOT what I was expecting and frankly just EWWWWWW....
Ok - now on with the rest of the day.....
Sunday, July 12, 2009