Chicken processing station

I decided to build a chicken plucker after butchering 10 broiler chickens one year, It took me all day long , and the hardest part...you guessed it plucking the darn things! So I started checking the internet and found a guy that had built a drum...

Lyn Garling and Christie Badger shared their experience as poultry growers and retailers with farmers who fit within Pennsylvania's poultry for slaughter exemption. Christie and her husband Mike also demonstrated on-farm processing with their mobile processing unit.

Oregon poultry producers who meet certain conditions can slaughter chicken, turkey and other birds in an open-air setting. But they still must meet requirements for sanitation, monitoring, recordkeeping and more. These resources can help poultry farmers operate in a safe, sanitary and environmentally sound manner.

I was told by a well established USDA inspected poultry processor that there were only a dozen or so small-scale USDA inspected poultry processors in the country that are willing to process for ind…

So tell me. What do you see here? "Well", you say, "I see a U-Haul truck that rolled off the assembly line sometime back when Milli Vanilli was a really cool music act, ole Ron Reagan was riding off into the sunset, and Freddy Kreuger was scaring the hell out of a whole generation of pre-teens. Oh yeah, and the aforementioned truck also looks like someone spent a little quality time gettin' jiggy with a DeWalt sawzall..." Um. Okay. Correct on all counts. But dude. Let's take a look in the…

How to butcher chickens: a documentary in photographs Warning: this is a graphic ‘how to’ photo essay on chicken dispatching and butchering, do not read any further unless you are reall…