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....

Read other posts about killing and eating your own chickens: Chicken killing checklist Feather plucking fun (Mark's feelings after killing his first chickens) Anna's feelings after her third chicken killing lesson Eggs, the other red meat How to cook an old chicken Recipes: Curry Chicken Pot Pie Chicken Burritos Chicken Potstickers Roast Chicken Eating the Working Chicken ebook and chicken killing companion video

Our chicken innovations have also included a homemade chicken waterer.

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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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