Processing chickens

Follow along on meat chicken processing day. Raising and butchering our own chickens isn't the easiest way to get good meat, but it is healthy and safe.

Myke Russel and Kathryn Cody, owners of November’s Harvest Farm in Limington, preparing for a chicken processing workshop at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association’s eighth annual Farm and Homestead Day in Unity. | Photo by Sam Schipani If you want to raise birds for meat, backyard chicken

Processing chickens -- otherwise known as butchering chickens -- at home means putting healthier birds on the dinner table.

Learn how to butcher chickens from your backyard for meat consumption. The step-by-step photos will guide you through.

Learn how to butcher a chicken so you can have food for you and your family this year. Basic tools for your own backyard processing day.

You’ve decided to raise and process your own meat chickens. Be prepared with this guide to all the poultry processing equipment needed.

With the rising cost of food and especially meat, many people are looking to closer to home to start raising their food. Backyard gardens are on the rise, and many people are starting to raise their own chickens for eggs. Meat chickens are one...

Fun facts about chickens that you probably didn't know! The world's largest chickens, how roosters crow, how many eggs a hen lays and more random chicken trivia!

We had our first experience slaughtering chickens on the homestead and it went down differently than what we had thought. Here's what it was like!