Joel Salatin is a well known expert in all things chicken (and all things homesteading for that matter). I learned to process my birds from this video. He is respectful of the life and of its total value.
I fully realize this is a little older and the OP has probably done the deed(s). I had all the same questions. I found a video of the great Joel Salatin demonstrating and answering every question I had about processing a chicken. What a lifesaver. He even explained how and why you drain the...