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How To Process A Chicken At HomeIf you can get the bird into the oven before rigor mortis starts, I've heard that you can cook it without it being like rubber. This is generally...- FunClucks
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How To Process A Chicken At HomeFantastic guide! If we want to cook a bird immediately, what is that process? Should we wait a couple of hours & keep the bird chilled or is it ok...
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Raising Cornish X for Meat – The TRUTHFree ranging CX pullet and a mix cockerel who is in luv with her. Both 8 weeks- Molpet
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Raising Cornish X for Meat – The TRUTHThank you for sharing your experiences! We've processed CX that our neighbors have raised, and they've been dirty and pitiful looking at only...- NetherLeeFarm
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Processing Meat Birds: "Go With The Flow"Thank you for sharing this well-organized overview. Although I've cleaned, prepped, and cooked chickens my entire adult life, I'm only in my...
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How to Process your Quail (Including Gory Pictures)I just used this guide to process my first quail today. Cold plucked and spatchcocked. Excellent guide and super helpful. I missed the part...- Sefirothe
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Using Older Chickens For Meat PurposesVery informative article on handling older chickens for meat. It makes sense that the longer resting period would help. Very good pointers and...- Lacy Duckwing
Meat Birds & Processing
Learn how to raise birds for meat and steps to process. May contain sensitive information and pictures.
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How To Process A Chicken At Home
- booker81
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With the rising cost of food and especially meat, many people are looking to closer to home to start raising their food. Backyard gardens are on... -
From coop to kitchen: Pets versus livestock and respectful chicken harvest
- BigSkyBird
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During our recent visit from Montana to my sister's home in Seattle, my nephew complained to my daughter, "Your chickens keep dying." My daughter... -
Raising Cornish X for Meat – The TRUTH
- aoxa
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If you do not want to read about chickens used for meat, you may want to skip over this post. We are omnivores here.. so we eat meat, and enjoy... -
How to Process your Quail (Including Gory Pictures)
- Nabiki
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Processing Quail Before you start: Cleanliness: Any time you process food, cleanliness is particularly important. I start by scrubbing my... -
The Emotional Side Of Chicken Processing
- booker81
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As documentaries and news articles come out with the latest information about inhumane treatment of meat animals, or the newest outbreak of food... -
Using Older Chickens For Meat Purposes
- booker81
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Most Americans are used to eating chicken from the store. Most of these chickens are about 8 weeks old or younger, and just like any other meat... -
How to raise chickens for meat - Tips and pictures
- chickenpooplady
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How To Raise Chickens for Meat - Tips & Pictures Raising meat chickens is a very exciting, interesting, and rewarding experience. It is... -
The Deed is Done - My flock is now at peace.
- Mimi13
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Well, today I finally did what I have been dreading for months: cull my first bird. With my last shipment of 22 chicks I received in April, plus... -
Dark Meat Chicken
- BYC Project Manager
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You have probably heard others refer to white and dark meat chicken, whether you handle chickens or not. Some argue that one is better than the... -
Raising Cornish X for Health, Hardiness, and Efficiency
- Bryan@CuckooMountain
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After a few successful runs with Cornish X I figured I would offer a write up of how I successfully raise these delicious birds. I am yet to have... -
How to Knock a Chicken's Socks Off
- 3KillerBs
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I've encountered a number of people, online and IRL, who find the idea of eating chicken feet disgusting -- both on the level of squeamish... -
Processing Cornish X: A beginners overview, Setup, cost, and results.
- Bryan@CuckooMountain
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This is an overview of my backyard processing set up. Enjoy! Equipment First and maybe most importantly, knives. I only used 3 knives during the... -
Can You Eat A Rooster? All You Need To Know And More
- BYC Project Manager
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Most backyard chicken owners have experienced rooster problems. In most cases, the result is usually the death of the rooster. This leads to the... -
Raising large table birds
- duluthralphie
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The lowly CX gets no respect, until you put a 13 pound dressed bird fresh from the oven on the table! We have all heard the names they are... -
Caponizing Tools and Process.. A Complete Story
- PurpleCArTires
- 8 min read
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So I have been caponizing my extra roos for the past year and half or so. Over this time, I have learned many tips and tricks to successfully... -
Processing Meat Birds: "Go With The Flow"
- MomJones
- 3 min read
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So I've been processing our own chickens (between 2-3 dozen per year) for a few years now and I thought it might be helpful if I shared a few... -
Capon vs. Rooster... a side by side comparison
- PurpleCArTires
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So I just started Caponizing this past summer. I caponized all our extra roos hatched last summer in hopes they would be more palatable for me... -
How To Skin A Chicken
- Buster
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Ok, there have been several people who have asked how to skin a chicken rather than pluck the feathers. I had a mean lead hen in my coop and...