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    I reversed the pullies once when I put it together, basically painted the wall in my buddies garage with hamburger
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    I bet that got your attention.

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    his mom's too, she was standing there telling him to make sure we didn't make a mess or his dad would have a fit!

    We burst out laughing, and she just rolled her eyes and left!

    Going to be playing wih meat tomorrow, well Poultry to be exact. Got 20 Hutterite chickens coming.
    Going to keep 2 whole for smoking and break the rest down.
    1 big bag of wings for the smoker/bbq
    10 breasts individually wrapped and frozen
    26 breasts ground up and packaged in portions and frozen
    10 thigh/backs individually wrapped and frozen
    26 thigh/backs deboned and ground up like above.

    Carcusses simmered down and deboned. meat will have fixen's added to it and turned into chicken pot pies (frozen) and the broth will be reduced and some canned and some dehydrated.
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    So, I did a breakdown as I went, and please keep in mind my scale is not legal for trade, but this is what I got:

    Hutterite Chicken Breakdown
    20 birds... $170.00... $8.50/bird... ~5.82#/bird

    5 birds:
    wings: 3#
    breasts: 7#
    thigh/backs: 8#
    tenders: 1.25#

    15 birds:
    ground thighs: 18#
    ground breasts: 21#
    tenders: 4-1/2#
    wings: 8-1/4#
    all skin/fat: 9-1/4#
    all carcuses/bones: 25-1/2#
    Stock:

    I'm still making the stock, I'll add that total later.

    My next step will be to price compare at the local stores, and do a comparison like this:

    Safeway: M&M Costco: Superstore IGA
    breasts:
    ground breast:
    thigh/back:
    ground thigh:
    tenders:
    Wings:
    Stock:
    Whole bird:

    Naturally my labour isn't included in my costs... but hey! I like playing with meat!
    Last edited by Sniper-T; 01-29-2015 at 12:02 PM. Reason: formatting issues
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    It'll be an interesting comparison indeed. And those are all fresh correct? I mean not frozen?

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    Fresh, butchered within a couple hours of pick-up. Cleaned, bagged, and in boxes of 10.

    Also bought 20# of bacon @$5.00/#

    And they truly are awesome birds... roasted/smoked or busted up.

    Chicken tender stirfry for dinner tonight!
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    Sounds like a good price on the birds to me. With the added bonus, they are fresh.

    Good eatin for a long time.

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    I am grinding away on the Beef Chuck, Pork Shoulder and Lamb still. Making Hamburger, Breakfast Sausage, Italian Sausage and Cevapcici Sausage And the Cevapc is really tasty.

    http://www.mnn.com/food/recipes/stor...h-tzatziki-dip

    In all it is about about 25 pounds of meat. Having a blast and losing weight grinding the sausage (manual grinder)

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    Yeah, been buying them from this colony for a while now. Really impressed with them! A friend, who also bought expressed interest when I said I was breaking them down, and asked the cost savings... I know that it is cheaper, but not how much, yet!
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    Here’s the breakdown, averaged prices per pound from several stores.
    I bought 20 birds for $170 and broke them down into the following; and got the quantities displayed in pounds.

    Keep in mind, my labour time is not included.

    Product: ....... Qty I got ....... $/#...... Total
    thigh/backs: ....... 8#....... @3.5....... $28
    ground thighs:..... 18#....... @3.5....... $63
    breasts:............... 7#....... @10.13....... $71
    ground breasts:..... 21#....... @7.9....... $166
    tenders:............... 5.75#..... @10.13....... $58
    wings: ................ 11.25#..... @6.7....... $75
    cooked meat.......... 5#....... @7.2....... $36
    Stock: .................. 18l....... @3.95....... $71
    .................................................. ...... -------
    .................................................. ...... $568

    Had I just bought the same qty of each thing at the store, it would have cost me $568. Or more than 3.3 times as much.

    To put it another way, with what it would have cost me at the store, I could have bought 66 Hutterite birds.
    I’m thinking that that was time well spent.


    Conversely, if I were to have bought the whole birds at the store, to the same poundage as I did…

    whole birds... 116# @3.95 = $458

    eta, sorry about the formatting...
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