Description
Interested in learning how to butcher your own chicken? Want to raise meat chicken, or humanely butcher your old laying hens to make incredibly tasty and healthy chicken soup and stock? Our poultry butchering class can help!
In this class you will get hands-on experience on how to butcher the old fashioned way, which is still recognized as one of the most humane and healthiest ways of poultry butchering. This is the way that Kosher and Halal butcher. Once you have this skill, you will be able to raise meat birds for your family, make the best chicken soup ever from your old hens, and gain more food independence for the years to come. And you get to take your chicken home and eat the first chicken you processed yourself!
You will learn about what it takes to raise a meat chicken in a free range environment in your back yard.
We’ll take you on a pasture walk to see what we raise our birds in, and how and what we feed them and why.
Safe food handling practices.
How to conduct a humane Poultry Butchering such as a chicken.
How to eviscerate (gut) a chicken.
How to look for illnesses in your bird’s post-mortem, and how to bag and freeze your chicken.
Date: July 11th at Redemption Springs
Time: 9am-12pm
Length: 45 min pasture walk, 2 hours of instruction butchering a chicken.
Ticket price includes the 1 chicken you processed you get to take home!
Children under 16 are welcome to come and observe, but if they want to butcher their own they will need a ticket as there is limited space at the poultry butchering table.
Interested in raising your own meat chicken? We can help with Day Old Chicks and Chick Feed and Grower Feed. All GMO free with Soy Free options.
Matthew E. (verified owner) –
Attended this class with my son ( age 9 ) because processing our own food or at least knowing where it originates from… learning how to do that to me is important for myself and my family. Farmer Seth was exceptional in educating the class and working with everyone. He did not rush the class (we ran over by an hour or so but no one was complaining) and took time to explain everything. He had a handout that covered basically the prep and processing work itself but he easily spent 2 hours explaining and educating on all things farming in general outside of simply the ‘processing’ of the chicken. I plan on going back and taking more classes from him with the rest of my family!
Kylie Warehime (verified owner) –
My husband and I attended this class to learn how to care for and butcher our own meat birds. Such a great class, amazing experience. We gained so much knowledge, we feel comfortable to have our own meat birds and process them now. Highly recommend this class with Farmer Seth, we will definitely be taking more classes from him!