I just moved where I can raise chickens, although I can have chickens, there is a limit to how many I can have. So since my chickens keep having babies, I would think some should be for meat as well as for laying, I have never butchered a chicken or seen it done. Where do I start and can I see pictures so I do not scare myself? thanks Kelsey
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get a good sharp axe and cut
get a good sharp axe and cut the head off. Hold it by the legs and the wings all at once so it does not flop. have hot water boiling and pour over the top of the chicken when dead in a old bucket. then pluck the feathers off. Leave the legs on makes for easier handling. Then when you have a naked chicken get a old paper sack ( no newspapers) and start it on fire to burn the pin feathers off. then slice it open from the back in just below the tail (The heavy set chickens are best like white rocks) dark feathered chickens are hard to pluck feathers off.) Pull out the insides besure you do not punture the fall bladder. Then either cut the chicken up at the joints and rinse each piece, then put in ice water too cool. Some freze them in that water.
I just remembered something.
I just remembered something. Dad would get very mad at us kids when we gathered the eggs if we scared the chickens off the nest when they were laying. ( The egss need to be gently gathered and we were given hell for raising hell in the chicken house too. That scared the chickens to stay ouside) for then they would sit every where to lay their eggs but on the nest. Every year when we moved the young ones to the laying houses we would shut them up for a couple of weeks so they new where home was and nested there. Ours were free roaming and we did only organic. But the big buiness chains put us out of business we could not compete in prices so we quit.