Butchering - Knife Recommendation Needed

[KenK]

Those Joyce Chen scissors are about the handiest tool a person could own. I bought a very expensive pair of Wustoff poultry shears and sent them back because they didn't cut through a chickens back as well as my very old and very well used Joyce Chen scissors.

 

[MadChickensVT]

I'm new at raising chickens but I'm a bit of a knife knut

Moras are a great value and made of excellent steel. Here's a good dealer's page - http://www.ragweedforge.com/SwedishKnifeCatalog.html

When it eventually gets a little dull, don't use one of those v-shaped knife sharpeners on a Scandinavian grind knife! Here's instructions for how to sharpen a Scandi http://www.ragweedforge.com/scanshrp.html