It was a very successful year as we only had two dead chicks out of a total of 104. Our first morning we stopped butchering chickens at # 16 because they where just too small ( 3 lbs.) Two weeks later we did 64 in one day. (4 1/2 - 5 lbs.) We completed the remaining 22 chickens the following morning. Please have a look at my video. It contains no gory parts, only a demonstation on how we pluck chickens.