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Design and Setup the Killing Cone Station

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OUTDOOR CHICKEN PROCESSING SETUP..EQUIPMENT DETAILS, SETUP AND PLANNING

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What happens here

The presenter begins unboxing new equipment from a pallet provided by Coops N More (Rite Farm Products). He first unpacks and assembles a robust, powder-coated metal rack specifically designed to hold multiple killing cones. This rack's sturdy construction and coating are ideal for an outdoor, often wet, environment. He then reveals several galvanized killing cones from Rite Farm Products, available in various sizes (extra large, large, medium) to accommodate different bird sizes. The purpose of these cones is to humanely hold the bird upside down for dispatch and efficient bleeding, which is crucial for meat quality. He compares these to a stainless steel cone from Meyer Hatchery, noting its higher cost but superior durability and longevity, a consideration in outdoor equipment selection. The strategic placement of these cones, with buckets beneath them, is essential for maintaining hygiene and an organized flow in the outdoor processing area.

Goal: This step details the unboxing and assembly of the killing cone rack and various cones, focusing on durable materials and their placement to establish the initial, humane dispatch area within the outdoor processing design.

Tools and materials

  • Buckets
  • Utility knife
  • Plastic processing bags

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food all right folks this is the pallet of goodies that has come from coops and more now coops and more is not a real sponsor of the channel but they did give me a bit of a price break on this stuff so that I could show it on the channel now I'm gonna be honest with you I'm not gonna lie to you I'll tell you if it's great I'll tell you if it's crap so we're gonna bust it open check out what we felt we got killing cones we've got a scalding pot we've got a rack for our killing cones and we have a plucker so let's get it open all right I'm excited this appears to be the rack for our cradling killing cones yep gonna have to do some assembly on this guy heavy heavy stuff this stuff is built to last a lifetime right here guys open rolling up here oh yeah nice so this is part of the rack that we're going to be using for processing our birds nice powder-coated good stuff I'll spare you the assembly details but we will get a little bit of a review once we get it assembled and we'll show you everything and tomorrow we'll really get a review we'll get to see it all in action so good stuff these should be our killing cones I do believe you get this opened up they're a little different than the Meijer hatchery killing cones they sent me a couple different sides this year let's see and a cool catalog all right so in this box is in the baggies that you put the chickens in and got to do a little bit of research give a shout-out to Lum na Akers he's got a cool video out there on how to do this and we also got killing cones these are galvanized killing cones and they just hang up by this hook right here this is the extra large for like a turkey and this is I think this is a large or this may be a double extra-large this is a large you can see the difference in the sizes here either extra-large or double X extra large or large and then the next smaller size is this size right here and I guess that's probably a medium or a large I think the one we'll be using the most is the middle size I think that'll pretty much cover any size bird that you're gonna raise on your place unless you raise a turkey and then you've got these big guys cool now let me explain to you what these chicken hugging cones do chicken huggers okay so you take your chicken and you pick them up by his feet and you lay them down in here and his head sticks out the bottom and you dispatch the chicken and let them bleed you want all the blood out of the meat before you start processing them these are made of…

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