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Cooking & Baking

kelly1mm

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2. Not the OP but we butcher (kill) our own chickens using a 'killing cone'

Reply to The Blue Flower (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 12, 2023, 06:18 PM

Mar 2023

which is basically a traffic cone with a bit of the tip cut off. That holds the chicken still as both the cone and the chicken are upside down. The feathers are added to the compost tumbler. The internal organs other than the liver go into the 'slop bucket' and are cooked with the rest of the scraps/leftovers and fed to the pigs. The liver we save in the freezer till we have enough to fry them for a family gettogether - they are a family tradition.

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Butchering your own chicken seems to be something of a lost art [View all] Major Nikon Mar 2023 OP

Do you mean killing your own live birds or... The Blue Flower Mar 2023 #1

Not the OP but we butcher (kill) our own chickens using a 'killing cone' kelly1mm Mar 2023 #2

I was raised on a farm and we did the former Major Nikon Mar 2023 #3

No thanks. I hate to touch raw chicken. Buy pre-cut pieces, butt have to pull the skin sinkingfeeling Mar 2023 #4

ever try de-boning the whole bird? AndyS Mar 2023 #5

The master at work.... tishaLA Mar 2023 #9

Thank you so much for this. I learned from a different chef's video but the AndyS Mar 2023 #10

I have done it before Major Nikon Mar 2023 #12

When I in high school, I worked in the meat department of a small grocery store. rsdsharp Mar 2023 #6

I watched and memorized all 3 of Tony Bourdain's cooking/travel snows BigmanPigman Mar 2023 #7

We had a House of Poultry here. ggma Mar 2023 #8

I get laughed at and become the butt of jokes. cachukis Mar 2023 #11

I cut up whole chickens for freezing chowmama Mar 2023 #13

All the time Retrograde Mar 2023 #14

I wish they included the giblets as well Major Nikon Mar 2023 #15