Introduction and Overview of Chicken Processing

hey guys it's josh tony rich farmer today is the day our baby chicks right here are ready for slaughter okay they started to crow which means it's almost too late we've had them for about six to eight weeks something like that i've got the records in the house but anyhow we're going to take our chicks today and we're going to show you how to slaughter them we're not going to pluck them we're going to skin them so we're not going to eat the skin anyway so there's no use in keeping the skin we're going to take our chicks going to show you how we skin them how we gut them how we process them and how we get them ready to put in the freezer for our family to eat this year so come along with me and we'll show you how it's all done here on the Stoney Ridge farm all right [Music] only reason America baby whoo the guys we either have 14 13 14 or 15 chicks I haven't calendar them in a while but we're going to go ahead we're going to get at the table basically just a Rubbermaid type table and we're going to set it up out here get a couple knives a couple kitchen shears and we're going to go ahead scan the chickens get them in coolers full of ice so that tomorrow or tonight I can cut them into quarters vacuum seal them and put them in the freezer fYI I'm not going to take you in and show you how to quarter a chicken if you don't know how to quarter up a chicken then you need to learn to pick up a chicken at the store and learn how to cut it into pieces some people don't know how to handle a whole chicken like they think it just comes in whole breast sections or it just comes like that a chicken doesn't come like that okay guys learn how to butcher meat learn how to handle meat go buy a whole chicken if you don't have chickens like this and cut it up cut it into breast sections get the little breasts tender fillet cut the leg off cut the thigh off and fry some chicken the first thing you