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Eviscerate and Clean Chicken

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How to Butcher Chicken Simple, Easy and Humane Step by Step instructions

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Cutting Board
  • Metal Pans/Containers
  • Paring Knife (Dexter)
  • Pinning Knife (Dexter)
  • Sharpening Steel (Dexter)
  • Cleaned Chicken

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be scared to do it on your own so we're into the gutting stations a little bit darker right here just so you guys know we're using dexter pairing knives this is a dexter sharpener okay you want to make sure you're going to be periodically sharpening your knives as you go here so again i'll post links to everything that we're using in this video description this is a paring knife this is a pinning knife i find that using the pinning knives really works pretty well uh the smaller the knife the easier it is to work with on the chickens and we're going to take this pinning knife right here and we're going to do this chicken there's a few things that i do for ergonomics there's some zip ties over here that are holding various things in place but for now we're just going to set stuff down we're going to show you really quick how to do one chicken okay so here's our one chicken he's a big boy we are separating the neck from the chicken you don't have to do that first thing we're gonna do here's here's our chicken leg bone we're gonna cut that way we're gonna go right up through and cut this way leg good to go we save the legs we're gonna do it again we'll show you one more time that way this is a slicer not a pusher so slice then cutting away from ourselves like that that's how you take the foot off okay inside here is uh the esophagus the first chamber we call it the craw of the chicken's digestive system we're gonna go in and cut up and out away from the bird right there is the first chamber of a chicken's stomach it's called the craw you may hear a little bark bark noise here in a second got to get a hold of that it's pretty slimy that's okay this is butchering this is what it's all about so there's the craw right there again part of the chicken's esophagus very simple okay just give her a little tug okay we're gonna go ahead and cut that cut it remove it and we have a bucket down below where we throw our intestines and our other such products now we're going to take the neck off okay because we're separating the necks from these chickens the gentleman we're processing birds for today does not want the neck cut away from yourself we can snap the neck just like that bam comes right off let's stick that over here for now we don't eat the wing tip some people like the wing tips i don't like the wing tips okay so we're going to do the same thing we're going to cut right here notice i'm doing all of this before i fool with any intestines i want to make sure that…

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