Enjoy What You're Doing Today: Warning: May Contain Blood

Yesterday was Chicken Killin' Day. Each year us and the K's buy chicks and take turns raising them to butcher, and then we split up the meat and freeze it. As you may already know butchering anything means blood, so if that bothers you, you may not want to look at the rest of these random pictures of our day.
Half-way through the day I gave my finger a good slice; up until then my friend Brielyn and I had been doing the neck-slicing and the scalding. (For those of you who don't know about butchering chickens, you first must cut their neck, then dip them a certain number of times in very hot water. Then you pluck the feathers off and rip their little guts out and freeze them.) Where was I? Oh yes, scalding and neck cutting. So half-way through the day I sliced open my finger, not too deep, but it did bleed like crazy! Once we got the bleeding stopped and the cut covered, I was resigned to scalding. Because it takes two hands to hold the chicken's neck and to slice its neck open. All in all it was a great day with a new record! 120 chickens processed and frozen!! With 14 people helping and a total of about seven hours. They day ended in delicious pizza, thanks Nikki and Hattie! So, now it is time for the pictures.