STEP BY STEP: BUTCHERING + PROCESSING MEAT CHICKENS! | The Galloway Farm
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This is my first year, processing my chickens, and you were a great help. I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Thank you for showing us the last steps too, with the bags. We will be doing ours for the first time soon and most videos don't show the final steps! Very helpful!! Thank you!
And if you have any questions or want to share your experience, just reach out to us. We all learn better when we learn together!
I had a rooster... that was supposed to be a hen. Today I decided to take him to freezer camp. I found your video and it helped a ton. One rooster... in the fridge to cook this weekend.
Interesting how many people do things a little different. But they all get the job done.Great video!I wanted to pick up a few tips.Getting ready to do 30 birds myself.
Best of luck! Hope all goes well and the freezer gets full 🙏
First time processing today
1st year homesteading
(multi animal)
Your video was so good we watched yesterday gained confidence and got set up for today to process
We are set up today to start 46 male & 3 female birds, Phew
Will let you know how it goes
Thank you for this video , it’s the best we have seen & appreciated the background music, close ups & steady detailed information
Thank you, thank you
Awesome, glad it helped and happy farming!
Today was my first day of processing my carnesh I have 30 and only got 12 done you guys are amazing faster than I am love the video and thank you 👍
Take your time and make sure it’s fine right! It’s well worth the extra time investment to put fresh, clean birds in the freezer!
Thankvyou for your video. We are getting ready to harvest 23 meat birds in about 2 weeks. This will be our first time so watching tons of videos and taking notes. i really liked yours because it was straight forward and concise. I have noticed little tweeks here and there with different folks but pretty close enough to each other to know this must be the best way! Congrats on you harvest and have a great Winter of wonderdul food raised by yourselves!
Glad to help! We learn a little something new each year - that’s part of the process. Hope your harvest went well!!
Thanks for this insightful video. Understanding the journey our food undertakes from farm to our tables is key to respecting the process!
We believe so too!
This is really fascinating, as someone who is interested in homesteading.
Thanks! We hope it was informative. The quality of the meat is leaps and bounds ahead of the supermarkets.
Very Good Lesson…thank you….We are doing our first process this Friday…24 total. Your video was very helpful. Thank you!!!!❤
Hope all went well and you have a full freezer!
I really love this video. I don’t own chickens and I have 0 experience with them, but I want to eventually have some for both egg and meat purposes. Im researching into different subjects surrounding chickens and other aspects of farming (and the similar) and hope to be able to proudly have some of my own food that I grew/raise/butchered/etc. myself someday!
Im very young, and find it hard to understand a-lot of what people are saying or explaining, but your video is by-far the most understandable and articulated. And I know everyone says this, but theres no crazy music or ruckus in the background which makes this video even clearer. Thank you again!
Awh, thanks! We love raising our own food and knowing exactly what goes in them as well as knowing how they are cared for throughout the process. It’s well worth it for us and I hope you find that it is for you too!
Thank you so much for sharing
Thanks for watching and interacting with the video ☺️
Thank you so much for sharing this information! Would you please tell me what butcher /boning knives you use?
The brand is Victorinox (I think that’s the correct spelling). We’ve had really good luck with them provided you have a decent sharpener 👍
Excellent job, I actually learned some new stuff! Thank You!
Thank you! That’s what we were going for when we put it together - just trying to help others out!
I enjoyed the video very educational. I liked the way you explained step by step luv the content
Thank you for the kind words! We wish everyone was able to grow and process their own foods; it’s not too difficult even for beginners like us!
Really enjoyed this video. Well done
Thanks for the kind words!
This is an awesome video for processing chickens totally stealing some of this yalls ideas great work thank you for the video.
Awesome, glad you found it useful! Feel free to use and reference as you need (:
Great info!
Thanks! Hope it helped!!
My day is this Sunday never did it will b following your videos thanks so much
It’s super easy and simple, just remember two things:
1) don’t rush it. Take your time and the results will take care of themselves.
2) keep your mouth closed! You do not want to experience the lessons that brought about this rule!!
Enjoy and connect with us to let us know how it goes!
@@TheGallowayFarm it went awesome thank you so much I'm soaking them for 24 to 48 in the brine and then I am wrapping them in the bags thank you so much for all the videos and all the advice it went so smooth I did exactly what you said took my time and it went great
So happy to hear that!
Great information! This was very helpful and informative.
Do you guys allow volunteers? I’m looking to get some of my own birds but I want to learn how to process before I buy them.
We’ve floated the idea around and we both love teaching and informing - so we just might! If you’d like to contact us offline and get us your information, we’d love to chat!
I hope my first time goes that well. I'm doing 13 roosters Tuesday say a prayer mine goes as good as your first haha
Well, how did it go?! Hopefully well! Our first time was a learning process but once we got the ball rolling, it was quick and easy!
It went well. I've still got some learning to do, but I think when I do actual meat chickens, it will be much easier than laying chicken roosters that aren't as meaty as one would think.
Couple things I've noticed:
1) The chickens look actually quite small for 9 weeks. Were you feeding enough? I use the chart by Welp Hatchery to measure their feed daily.
2) Scalding for a minute or minute and a half is way too long. 30 seconds should be more than enough time. I do 150 degrees F for 15-30 seconds until the feather comes out as easily as you showed it. I don't think you need to leave them in the scalding tank any longer after that point. I'd be surprised if you didn't cook the skin/meat slightly.
Otherwise great stuff and I thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the info! In response to your suggestions:
1) We got our birds later than we wanted because that was the availability at the time we ordered. It was a sweltering summer which contributed to their lack of weight gain as well as their feather production. This past year we ordered sooner, received sooner, fed similar amounts, and the results were night and day - we had some over the 5lb. mark when processed!
2) The scalder we were using wasn’t exactly the cream of the crop and our experience using it was even less so. 😂 There were a couple from this batch that the skin tore while plucking because of a higher temperature (we kept this back for ourselves). Once we got it adjusted, we were on a roll. Again, year 2 was much better! A little dawn dish detergent to break the surface tension, a brief scald, and a steady stream of water while plucking made all the difference!
This year we didn’t pot to TH-cam, but we did update our story on Instagram which had been saved under Meat Chickens if you want to check out the slight tweaks there too. We hope to learn each year and share that accumulated knowledge with others. Thanks for being a part of that! 😊
@TheGallowayFarm great response. Heading to your ig
Thank you! Great job!
Glad it was helpful!
I love the whole video
Thank you! Happy you’re here with us!!
Great video
Appreciate that, hope you learned something!
Very helpful!
Thank you.
Glad you found it helpful!
Pensaba que era más difícil de limpiar un 🐔 good
It’s straight forward once you know what to do!
Very well organized….
Thank you! Hopefully it was informative and easy to follow!
Love how you play funeral home music for the poor buzzard,
Never would have heard it that way until you mentioned it lol
Interesting
Thanks!
Thankyou for the video
Hope it was informative!
nice job guys!!!! :)
Thanks so much! We are excited to do it all over again next year!!
I really like this video... question where do you get your defeather from ot at?
We picked ours up from our local Cooperative Extension office. They “rent” it out for free along with the scalder and cones. We’ve done this every year and they’re always so happy to help!
I hit a turkey with my 2008 Honda Accord… it’s really an Altima but I call it an accord cause people be stealing where I’m from
Wow
Best comment😂
I have 30 birds I’ll be ready to harvest soon and was curious if I could use the same tube for shrink wrapping all 30 chickens or do I need 30 12 inch tubes?
The tube is sanitized before we start and, unless there’s a reason to resanitize in between, we keep it working.
❤❤please share the information where to buy the chicken plucker ? do you like your chicken plucker?
Thank you for the comment. Our local cooperative extension agency has this one available FREE of charge to those interested in using it. They schedule its use ahead of time and are super friendly to deal with!
Where did you get that chicken pluckier? It is quiet. I like it.
Our local cooperative extension office reserves it for FREE!
I have 2 large roosters I have to harvest here soon.
Good luck! With 2, you’ll be done in a jiffy!!
@@TheGallowayFarm They are all in the Freezer.
Was your meat tough from freezing them after buttering... I thought you had to let the birds rest for 2da3 days ...
Nope, we just let them rest in the ice bath for a few hours then straight to bagging and freezing them. They had the same texture as a chicken you would get from the grocery store, not tough at all :)
Thanks for your feedback I appreciate it
How do you prevent chickens from exhibiting rigor mortis?
Rigor mortis doesn’t set in until the chicken has been dispatched and is left to sit for quite some time. We process 3-4 birds at a time from start to finish and get them in an ice bath to cool down for proper storage. No time for it to occur. Hope that helps!
The feet and keeper organs- my family will not eat. How do you process organs for dogs? What are feet good for?
We cook up the organs kind of “stir-fry” style and feed to to the dogs as treats. We also dehydrate the chicken feet (after removing the nails) and those are excellent treats as well!
What do you with the blood? Drain to a bucket? Bury it? Thank you
It all goes into a collection bucket/bin and we have used it for compost, used it as fertilizer after diluting, and so much more!
What kind of knife do u use to process the birds.
They’re called boning knives
It was a victorinox knife, great bang for the buck
Can this apply to any bird that you catch in an SHTF situation?
Basic anatomy is the roughly the same, but you’ve got to be careful with certain things I’m sure. I know it’s similar for chickens, ducks, and turkeys.
How many birds were processes during 8am-3pm?
We processed just under 60
How long can we leave them on ice ??
We ice ours to bring down the temperature so it doesn’t thaw out our deep freezer. The short answer to your questions is: We’ve never intentionally left them to find out!
How long do you keep them and ice?
We put them in an ice bath directly after processing and leave them just long enough for the core temperature to come enough that it won’t defrost the freezer. I think last time, we probably left them about 4 hours, give or take
Newbie here. Can you kill and cook same day?
No. It’s not recommended because the rigor mortis. It makes the chicken super tough. Wait 24 hours before cooking at least
@@danaeBei thank you for your response
That’s the way it was done for years and years - kill, pluck, and put it in the pot. We’ve never done it that way so I can’t speak from experience
How long do you expect 48 birds to feed you please?
If you eat a bird a week, that’s 48 weeks or almost a whole year! We eat a lot of chicken around the farm so maybe half that 🤔
It also depends on the size of the bird, sharing with family and friends, and a few other factors.
@@TheGallowayFarm Thank you. I appreciate the insights. Keep doing what you do.
This is almost identical to Joel’s processing video
Thanks for the comment, who’s Joel?
9:42
Yeah
Hahahahahaha
Why leave neck on? I'd remove it
You certainly can! We don’t chop the necks off to make sure there’s no bone shards in our chicken. We also roast a lot of chicken and the extra bone/skin/fat is more flavor!!!
Didn't show weight or give total cost per bird or pound
Hey Dale! We are coming out with a follow-up video to address the cost vs. benefit of raising meat birds where we will do a full breakdown of EVERYTHING that factors into cost while raising them.
Good job..but the music’s depressing enough!
Sorry to hear that! Maybe something more upbeat next time 😀
I would suggest not adding video advertisements mid how-to butcher. Let's just assume I'm holding a knife and actively doing what you're teaching. Now that I stopped, washed my hands, I'm going to find a how to video not interrupted by advertisements.
I’m pretty sure he’s not in control of when or where ads are inserted! They’re not that long just let them play & proceed! You should have watched ahead of time and then you would have known what was next! 🤦♀️
Maybe watch the video then perform the task?
Unfortunately we have no control of where ads are placed on our video. The trick (for the future) is to watch it all the way through and then on the replay it won’t give you ads.
I stopped the video before the cone
I’m to weak to watch. I guess I’ll just be eating eggs if I can’t buy meat 🫤
We didn’t show the dispatching in the video - but we take pride in respecting the life of the animal all through the process.
You threw away the best part...the heart and gizzard.
We keep the hearts and livers! The gizzards are a bear to clean - if it weren’t for that, we’d keep them too!!
Do you have to get through the rigormortis stage b4 freezing?
We always wait until the birds have sat a while in the ice bath just to make sure the freezer doesn’t defrost. I’ve seen folks say 24 hours in the ice though we personally haven’t waited that long.