We killed the broiler chickens a week ago. If you're interested in how we kill them, go to the post called ''To Kill A Mockingbird' (I Mean A Chicken)'. There's a slight variation to the steps. We rented a plucker. The plucker looks like a big plastic can on a base. If you look inside the 'can,' you will see a rotating bottom and rubber fingers on it and also on the sides. When you start it, streams of water are shot into the container, and the bottom starts to rotate. When you stick the chickens into this, it looks as if the chickens are going to come out torn to pieces. But they will come out clean as a whistle, if you dipped the chickens in the right temperature of water, and stuck four at a time into the plucker.
The other thing, (look at the title of this post), is that some new broiler chickens have arrived. One of them has some weird illness, and its wings are drooping and it can't chirp. It looks far all the world as if it is trying to make a sound, cause it lifts its head, strains its body, and opens its mouth wide, to the rhythm of its breath. But nothing comes out. Does anyone know about this strange ailment?
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