The Chickens (or as Peyton calls them...the Shickens!)

yesterday (Saturday) Rhett and the kids (not me!) butchered 2 more chickens. That is a total of 3 chickens disposed of .... 2 of them were roosters and 1 was a blind hen who was a sad lookin' thing...anyway! The first experience (on the 11th) was not a positive one for the kids due to a dull hatchet...(I know sounds bad huh!) well, it was...and the kids were sad because they felt the rooster suffered....bad deal. SO, this time daddy was nice and ready. The hatchet was super sharp so there was no suffering...and Rhett told the kids if they were going to cry they couldn't stay...so NO one cried ... which means they all stayed! ick! I have way to many childhood memeories of Grandpa Smokey killing the chickens...I don't need any more! lol!....before we knew it ...they were hangin and drainin'... i KNOW this sounds SO nasty! lol...but we are really trying to teach the kids that not everything comes from the store...and we had a great cove fort day a while back and talked about the role the children at the fort played...and on sunday's after church many of the young boys were in charge of killin the chicken for dinner...This time they all helped 'de-feather' the birds. And were pretty okay with it like it is everyday life....don't tell them...but I am SO glad it isn't! whew!

I took more pictures of Jentrie because she was the biggest face puller! Sooo funny!