About a year ago, I experienced something I never thought I would: the butchering of 75 chickens. And I wasn’t just an observer. I was an active participant. This comic shows you, in great ...

While butchering chickens, particularly chickens that you are fond of, may seem cruel and unusual, many animal keepers believe they are morally responsible for providing creatures under their care ...

I’ve still never seen a chicken running around with his head cut off. Everybody’s grandma tells great stories about headless chickens running straight into a fence. That’s why I joined my ...

Along with the butchering, Starks hopes to fill some of that void and plans to offer a program in which people slaughter their birds with him, and along with those stewing hens, they can return home ...

Slaughtering and butchering chickens—a multitude of chickens—is central to Kimball’s evangelical quest to liberate himself from the corrupting influence of imported food. Culinarily, he’s ...

We're enjoying our stay with my husband Daniel's family in Danville, Ohio. Our 2½-year-old daughter Julia's highlight this week was going to her Uncle Tobias and Aunt Fannie's house. They have a ...

He learned how to butcher chickens while growing up. “As a child I always had birds. I guess you could call me a ‘bird enthusiast,’” he said.

A guide to butchering meat from a great homesteading book about self-sufficient farming includes tips on butchering beef, butchering sheep and butchering poultry. Originally published as "Farming ...

Jones and his crew will butcher and process between 8,000 and 9,000 chickens here this year, but despite the occasional scattered feathers, the butchering shed looks more like a greenhouse, with ...

We're enjoying our stay with my husband, Daniel's, family in Danville, Ohio. Daughter Julia's highlight was going to her Uncle Tobias and Aunt Fannie's house. They have a pond where we go fishing ...