Chicken Processing

Come learn this essential agricultural skill that is vital to any homesteader’s practice. This workshop is also for the culinary enthusiast or for anyone who just wants to know where and how their food comes to them when it’s locally harvested and humanely handled. In this hands-on class students will learn the basic skills of processing their own birds. You will leave with one 5 – 6 lb. packaged bird to take home. No prior knowledge is necessary to take this workshop.

Taught by certified Sanborn Mills Farm staff; Ray Ramsey, Tyler Allen, and Jenn Merrill.

Skills and Techniques:

• Slaughtering
• Scalding
• Plucking
• Eviscerating
• Butchering
• Packaging

Materials Fee: Covered in the cost of the workshop

Special Tools or Equipment: Boning knife if you have one and apron. Dress for the weather.

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