Chicken Soup

Ready to be washed and cut.

Reina, Doris and Josue even helped clean the chickens. After we put them in hot water they helped pull the feathers out.

Denis even brought his wife over to help.

We got chickens for the kids to take care of about two years ago. They were little tiny chickens and hadn't even started laying eggs yet. The kids waited and waited for them to start laying eggs. Finally months later they started to lay eggs. We have been eating off of their eggs the past two years. Well over the last couple of months a few of the chickens and the rooster have died. Also they have started only putting about 8 eggs or so a day. We use to get around 30 a day.

The chickens are old and tired of laying eggs. So we decided it was time for a new set of chickens to start the process all over again. So we decided we were going to kill all of the chickens and eat them. Only one small problem, no one wanted to kill them.

Well yesterday morning the staff were discussing who were going to kill the chickens. No one wanted to. Denis said his wife would and he would go to the house and get her. Well in the time he went to get her Dorian caught wind that no one wanted to kill the chickens. He was on his way out the gate to go to town but he said he would quickly kill them all. So all 25 of them were killed with a quick snap of the neck in a matter of 5 minutes.

Reina, Denis, and Josue started gathering all of the chickens to start cleaning them. It took all morning to clean them.

Elvia was in the kitchen doing the dirty work. She was opening and gutting the chickens. All but three of them got done yesterday. This morning Elvia and Antonio are finishing gutting the last three while Dilcia works on cooking a big pot of chicken soup for the kids for lunch.

We are hoping they will all still want to eat the chickens. The kids knowing that these were the chickens they use to take care aren't doing so well with the fact that we are going to eat them.

We shall we when everyone gets home from school how many of them do eat their chicken soup.

As for now the kids get to rest a couple of days from taking care of chickens. The new ones should be here soon.