respectful chicken harvest part 2 of 2 butchering how to

[nazilampshade]

i find it funny that THIS video is age restricted, but the first part was not. and i would argue that the first part is in a way more graphic in that the chicken is still alive and bleeding out...

meh. to each their own.

great video btw. i plan on raising my own ducks eventually, so this is of great help! :D

[carogye]

Wow, this looks nothing like what I saw growing up! My mom and her kitchen helper making a big bloody mess. Thank you I think that I can do this to my old hens and not freak out my own children.

[brbooker]

Thank you for this video! I will be processing 2 roosters tomorrow from the start! This is important information!

[Pashakitty]

Thank you for this most informative pair of videos. I now know that I will most likely never be able to do this sort of thing myself so If I ever manage to have land on which to keep chickens, I will have to find someone nearby who can butcher them for me. This is a good thing for me to know so I don't actually try this and then do more harm than good. I think I would fail and the poor animal would suffer and die in pain.

[phoebelafibi]

You are so lovely! Thank you. I've been searching and searching. Great close ups and gentleness.

[WhoChrisLiu]

By having the chicken calm wouldn't it be more pain free by just chopping its head off by surprise? I cut my self a bunch of times in the kitchen the "slice" of the blade is quite jolting. I mean even their little chicken brains can comprehend panic that their being bled out.

[SurvivalistSong]

she's a cutie

[galwrestles4fun]

would you recomend using a killing cone? and is it necissary to break the neck?

[paulwheaton12]

@galwrestles4fun excellent questions. come on out to the forums at permies.com where we are talking about these things and other aspects of homesteading and permaculture all the time.

[Philthemusic58]

Excellent and informative video. Thank you for showing respect to these wonderful creatures that God put here for us to eat and enjoy. I also am a chicken lover, for their eggs, meat, and companionship. I have just ordered 35 chickens which I will raise to butcher and eat.

[Onwa06]

I wish I could hug you, haha! thank you for this well made video. :)

And thank you for caring for animals pain.

[daplet]

You have a wonderful personality dear child.You did not cause the animal to suffer & God gave these animals life to keep the meat fresh so not a thing wrong in that.Looks like good eats.God bless

[daisy744]

If I was single and good looking, I'd ask her to marry me!

[chillysdad]

Very thorough, and super appreciated.

[chillysdad]

Much thanks.

[tenmilechicks]

Good job on the video and gently done as well as being fairly informative as well.

[caliherbs]

wth... a nice bear grills at 12:00

[Cindy507]

When I was a little girl, the butcher would kill the chicken with far less grace than you. But the taste of fresh-killed chicken is way better than the stuff you find in the stores. Great job!

[rednecktrucker1969]

Do you need to let the body cool brfore you freeze it or cook it? Can it go directly in to the pot for soup making? I have to do my first chicken this weekend, I have read books but never done it so I am really scared I will mess it up.

[frosthazard00]

the yolk-like fluid that poured out of her body cavity gives me the impression she had egg yolk peritonitis, that would also explain the lack of eggs and multiple yolks in there

[stellajane13]

She's got it down pretty good! I never thought about boiling the trachea nor eating anything without cooking it from chicken... due to chicken poop, of course! I do drop the egg yolks, gizzard and heart & lump of fat into a small pot and boil them separately, grind the meat for gravy made with the stock. Eating the yolks proves the CLEANLINESS of the animal raising that she is doing ie there is no salmonela to sicken her. Not for beginners. See farm videos stellajane13 more rabbits soon.

[JP27fling]

That is something I don't see everyday. I was okay with the butchering and the cleaning but did not expect her to suck out the raw yolk from an unlayed egg. :-O

[chickadumdum]

This has been the most helpful advice so far in killing and gutting a chicken. I just applied it to my 5 turkeys and the advice was invaluable, what a star Alexia is! Thank you so much from Amanda who lives in Kent in the UK, what did we do before youtube?

[WormComposter]

Sitting here watching this great video while sipping on my homemade chicken broth! Yummm

[kittypie070]

I own a cat who in her youth hunted birds and brought them to me. I appreciated my

cat's nature and never scolded her. She was very neat and clean about it. Amazingly, she learned eventually to catch the birds alive instead of killing them. My cat is old now, but

she was my first teacher.

It was truly fascinating to hear the lady say "Where does the chicken go...?" as she was plucking feathers. I highly commend her attitude toward so humble a critter as a chicken.

[watcherjohnny]

Hey Paul: Great video. I also listened to your podcast with Alexia and enjoyed it thoroughly! I too would like to join the growing list of gentlemen proposing matrimonial bonds with Miss Allen (if you would pass my proposal on to her, I'll make sure you get an invitation). What a unique and intriguing young woman. It's no wonder she commands such interest from men (who are disenchanted with the hordes of "mall zombies" roaming the countryside).

[mrbhf2000]

Chickens do feel the pain unlike carrot

[dirtpatcheaven]

@mrbhf2000 how do you know vegi's don't feel pain? We don't know that. Also, with severe blood loss you lose consciousness so quickly that you feel nothing but the initial slice. Think of how it feels to cut yourself with a really sharp knife, you don't even necessarily feel it for a few seconds. That being said, I cry every time I butcher an animal and her method is so much less traumatic than it could be.

[MyLittleAdventure26]

i am so glad that this is the 2nd and last method I'm going to have to watch before starting to raise my first chickens... !

[van2011canucks]

Why is this age restricted?

[paulwheaton12]

@van2011canucks My guess is that a vegan saw it and reported it. Although I don't know why a vegan would search for something like this.

[ShotgunAndAShovel]

@paulwheaton12 To cause problems for us.

[teddy0072]

Well done, truly respectful harvesting. I love raw egg yolks too, just not sure if I'd eat those unshelled ones inside the chicken :).

Thanks for the video, Mr Paul.

Oops, almost forgot: can you ask Alexia to disregard all the previous marriage proposals and marry me? Haha!!..

[jvaldeuxo]

Ummm...this lady is amazing, and I'm a veg.

[popoqwer]

thank you for vid .

[clintonreid18]

i love her, marry me

[jamesa4050]

good tip on the egg yolks which are very nutritious, especially raw.

thanks, teacher.

[TheGreatNecromancer]

Won't you get salmonella from eating the raw eggs or chicken?

[Wardeenio]

Alexia, thank you so much for the incredible amount of information that you shared in the video. The time you took in showing everything was so educational. Well done!

[zqdz123]

woman should learn this.my grandmother used to kill chicken,and at that time we eat bio chicken .very nice.

[zellerz1216]

i really enjoyed this video, and her sweet wisdom, i now know what goes into a chicken.a few questions though, shouldn't she have cooked the eggs? and can chicken "guts" be fed to pigs? i thought pigs were herbivores? (im not an expert) also, she composts some of the chicken? isn't that bad, because it attracts animals, and bad bacteria?

[TheStevieoo]

liked the video but eating the raw immature eggs made me gag!! Sick!!

[OutlawVideoTV]

these videos are very fun to watch, educational and inspiring!!!

[missaprilsgarden]

@TheoryIsSpeculation -- yeah she noticed something was wrong with her ovaries in the video. if there is something wrong with ovaries, they wont lay eggs anymore. if probably would have killed her after enough eggs built up inside of her anyways so this woman killed the hen at just the right time otherwise she wouldn't have been able to use the meat.

[TheSchwabyLlama]

awesome vid

[Samabaspins]

you are brilliant and being so young and female i think helps (sounds silly) but i think its great what you do and if you like meat i think its great education thank a lot.

[1motorpsycho]

"And also her heart" (6:33)...(squish, squish). I think it is hilarious how many men in here are in love watching her do this. You may want to rethink with YOU being the chicken, not waiting at the table for dinner, but ON the table for dinner. LOL!!!

[areyouserial]

Never in my life have I wanted to both marry someone and vomit at the same time.

[ladymachete50]

@areyouserial LOL, made my day :)

[neal1tube]

I hope there is a part three you could put up? I would love to see her make the soup!

[pondman27]

To think how much this knowledge will so easily be lost to our future generations without this channel and all the others that you have brought to the YT.

Thanks again

[DiscountPeople]

@pondman27 This information will never be lost to mankind, only urbanites.

[sporkify420]

I'm turned on.

[Rhinoch8]

Very nice! Thanks for the tips!

[TreasureGift]

Thank you for your calm, no nonsense methods and sharing them with all of us. I will be getting chickens, mainly for eggs, but I might get some meat birds too, I know that in either case, I'll be faced with doing the deed.

I appreciated the caring, loving way you held the chicken and made her calm, it was clear that this chicken went out the best way she could. I haven't looked at the rest of your videos (if you have more), I hope to find one where you are killing and butchering rabbits.

Wretha

[davadhyll]

She's obviously very skilled with her knife, from what I could see she nicked the gallbladder with just the tip and wiped it on her apron. Whatever trace amounts of bile are left over are not going to hurt anything, especially in the 20 min or so before it's in the freezer. It's not anthrax.

I've seen that yellow goo when I've killed old hens with those colors (I think they're called Rhode Island Reds). Maybe it's a breed thing?

[davadhyll]

Is that a Moira knife?

[RDJim]

I think I'm in love.

[zacharymichael1]

@RDJim that's how i felt the first time I watched this, back in july. and now I'm watching it again and dang, she is both beautiful and she knows how to work with her hands. what more could you ask for in woman?

[grnd9bby]

You cut the gallbladder open and then used the same knife to cut the fat and gizzard. Then you put the tainted meat on the plate with the other meat for cooking.

[cs74hopper]

@grnd9bby Bile is used in several south east Asian entrees (Pinapaitan & Sinanglao from the Philippines) (Larb/Laap from Laos) and is not at all toxic. It is however, very unpleasant by itself or when unintentionally added unbeknownst to us inexperienced Americans.

[vutEwa]

This was worth the wait but it was such a long wait I fell asleep and then woke up last in line for the matinee! Anyhow, thanks for sharing this Paul, just a great two video series!!

[transcendentalcrap]

What was all the yellow liquid at about the 5 minute mark? I've butchered a couple dozen and never noticed any liquid.

[ahnamay]

@transcendentalcrap I thought is was a ruptured egg yolk...

[EKWisner]

Thanks, a real lesson in practical anatomy.

[doctimdc]

That is (was) one well fed hen. Nice tutorial. Thank you for sharing

[travishalverson]

Sweet.

[Knight8365]

Fantastic video - I had no idea about the oil gland and it's taught me a lot but it did start to get a bit like a scene from Aliens tho :)

[Stime64]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!

[ibboat]

Awesome, awesome, awesome. Keep up the great work Paul!

[brian46777]

Thanks for the tutorial, I've only butchered a few birds, I'll study these videos several times before doing it again.

[ruggedtraditions]

By far the best chicken harvesting and butchering tutorial I have seen.

Thanks Paul

[je99na2]

Thanks...City dweller .....

[SuzyB1988]

Love it. Super useful knowledge, and fun to watch!

[GetMeThere1]

Wow! A great education from an expert. Thanks for posting!

[OurFadedGarden]

Wow! I wish I were this competent.

[MasterVeggie]

Great Stuff - Useful & Simplified. - Dont think im comfortable with the whole raw egg juice balls Tho!

[HotSauceJohnny]

Great job, and great close ups. I'm doing a few of my meat birds today, and this video served as a nice refresher.

[Quranite]

I like the part where she sucked the yolk out of the unformed eggs! Great stuff. That's the type of stuff that gives good health, and is going back to one's roots. Why not cook the ovaries by the way. do they taste bad?

[glvedio]

u must put on rubber gloves while harvest chicken..:-)

[demerc]

You know you've butchered a lot of chickens when you can tell something "is up" with the ovaries, just from having your hand up the chicken's butt.

[HotSauceJohnny]

I wonder, do they remove the oil gland from the store-bought birds?

[DancingHorses26]

@HotSauceJohnny

Yes, they do. You'll notice if you look carefully that the tails of store-bought birds have been cut.

[herbalcat]

Awesome! I think that I might be able to do this now if I had to.

[EndOfTheRoadFamily]

Nice work. I like the way she describes the job and this is the most all inclusive description I've seen. Gizzard, heart, and liver all good stuff. Nice bonus info on the feet. Very cute.