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ophis: setting up
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ophis: guests of honor
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ophis: Cornish crosses
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ophis: three critical pieces
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ophis: the plucker
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ophis: ice arrives
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ophis: throat cut in two places
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ophis: the kill cones hold the birds for a brief bleed-out
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ophis: blood collected and vented to bucket
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ophis: from the kill cones to the scalder
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ophis: from the scalder to the plucker
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ophis: plucker removes nearly all feathers
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ophis: young birds being moved to pasture
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ophis: removal to pasture from elevated brooder
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ophis: young birds moved to portable chicken ranch
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ophis: two baths: first water, then ice
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ophis: the clean side
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ophis: temperature check