Welcome to the Old Fashioned On Purpose Podcast.

We butcher chickens last week.

This is our first batch for the year.

We have another 50 birds coming in July.

And naturally throughout the process, I posted it on Instagram and Facebook and I created a

YouTube video around us on butchering day because that's what I do and it generated a lot of comments which I knew it would because that's what

always happens every time I talk about meat especially growing our own meat and

one of the topics that came up a lot was from some of you who have contemplated growing meat animals on your homestead and you're just feeling a little bit of apprehension.

You're not sure if you can go through with it. You're worried about how you'll feel on butchering day. And I get it. It's totally natural and normal to question yourself and to wonder those things.

So in today's episode, I wanted to take you through

some of our own thought processes

and just kind of the emotional side

of raising your own, meet animals on the homestead.

I'm your host Jill Winger and this is the podcast for the Trail Blazers.

The Mavericks, the makers, the homesteaders, the modern pioneers, and the backyard farmers.

If you're ready to boost your food security and live a more homegrown lifestyle, well, this is the place

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