Chicken killing checklist
The mean rooster has finally bitten the dust. Graphic photo ahead
--- beware!
After our last chicken-slaughtering day, Jan pointed me to a very useful chicken
butchering blog. Rather than re-creating that fine how-to
guide, I'll just mention a few things we've found to facilitate the
process.
First, it's well worth taking a little extra time to get all of your
materials together before you start. Here's my minimal checklist
(which of course would be larger if I was doing dozens of chickens at a
time). Read
more and re-enter the food chain....
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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