Chicken Processing Prep

This week we're gearing up for the last chicken processing of 2010.  We've made some minor adjustments to our processing area by putting down crushed cement in some of the areas that we work,  moving our cones to hang between cones instead of hanging off of trees, and this time we've made sure we have a couple of heating elements for our scalder on hand.  The scalder heating element seems to be our weak link so we're going to make sure that we don't get bottle necked by this again.  We'll process chickens starting Wednesday and wrapping up Saturday.  This time we won't have any help, so we need to make sure that we're not slowed down by any equipment failures.