Tips for Butchering a Year's Worth of Chicken in 2 Hours

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We raised and butchered a year's worth of meat birds for our family of 4 in 2 hours. The actual butchering took 2 hours, but the setup, clean up, and packaging were longer. I walk you through our process and tips we've gleaned over the years of raising our own meat birds. For step-by-step photos go to https://melissaknorris.com/263

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1:25.2	Hey there pioneers and welcome to episode number 263.
1:30.0	I'm your host Melissa K Newerst, a fifth generation homesteader who got back to her
1:37.4	roots of using simple modern homesteading for a healthier and more self-sufficient life after a cancer scare in my late 20s.
1:48.4	This is the place for you my friend if you sometimes wondered if you weren't born a hundred years too late.
1:54.8	If you've always thought that you and Laura Ingalls would be best friends,
1:59.7	and if you think that every home and kitchen would be better if they were filled with
2:04.4	mason jars and cast iron and those things were used daily with homegrown and homemade
2:11.7	food.
2:13.7	If that is you, then welcome home and welcome to this amazing community of modern pioneers. Today we are going to be diving into
2:27.6	what it looks like when you are butchering a year's worth of chicken. I'm going to be sharing with you what it looks like
2:39.3	and how our day went as we just did this last week and the freezer is now full with an
2:47.0	entire year's worth of our own organic and pasture raised chicken, chicken, as well as a little bit of insight
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