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Usually I’m lurking in the background trying to glean useful information from others smarter than myself but now I find myself in a position where I can give some potentially useful information. We’ve been processing several hundred birds amongst our family for years now and what works for us is a simple half a plastic barrel with water and ice. We have 2 of these, one for when the birds come out of the plucker and the other for cooling after evisceration. The half barrel holds approximately 25-30 birds depending on size. Ours are usually 4 and a half to 5 and a half pounds dressed. To process many more than that at a time could be overwhelming without a small army of help. My job is dressing and cutting so I speak from personal experience. With this set up we’ve often done 100 birds killed, cut and packed in 5 hours. I hope this is helpful. On a side note, since this is a draft forum I couldn’t help post this picture of yet another use for draft power. Its a long walk from where we process the birds to the house.
