Butcher Chicken Parting Out & Deboning

On our farm we raise Cornish Cross meat chickens and this is how we part out our pasture raised meat chickens for market sales. In this video we show you how butcher a chicken into various cuts such as breast, wings, leg quarters, drumsticks, thighs, boneless skinless thighs, and how to debone thighs and drumsticks for use in ground meat.

In this step by step video, you will learn how to break down a chicken from start to finish. This is a great skill to learn if you raise meat chicken, such as cornish cross, freedom rangers, or if you just want to learn to butcher chickens for your own home use.

Use the left over bones for bone broth and soups.

Processing Equipment Used To Process Chickens:

Cones
Single Cones - https://amzn.to/3vCbwGT
Group of 4 - https://amzn.to/3EedVv8
Cone Stand with 8 Cones - https://www.feathermanequipment.com

Scalder
For small scale use a turkey fryer and thermometer - https://amzn.to/37bO37f
Larger homesteads and farms - https://www.feathermanequipment.com/s...

Chicken Pluckers
To pluck just a few chickens use a drill attachment - https://amzn.to/3JB1XwI
For small homesteads - https://amzn.to/3uHdwy9
For large homesteads and farms - https://www.feathermanequipment.com/s...

Knives
Boning Knife - https://amzn.to/3OfIdCu
Breaking Knife used for everseration and parting out - https://amzn.to/3OegCl2
Electric Bone Scissors - https://amzn.to/3JUNoo1

Meat Grinders
For small homesteading - https://amzn.to/36cB2tl
For large homesteading and farms - https://amzn.to/3EeSOIX

Chill Tank
For large homesteading and farms - https://www.feathermanequipment.com/s...

For small homesteads, you can use coolers. A 100 quart cooler can chill 16 birds.