Podcast, Processing

Advantages of On-Farm Chicken Processing

Posted on by mike

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The expense of purchasing equipment, the regulatory climate, or even the mystery of slaughtering chickens are often cited disadvantages of processing your own chicken, but here are some of the reasons you should do it anyway:

  • Control of the final product.
  • Pay yourself for the processing and recapture the drive time to the processor.
  • Access markets not available with customer slaughter.
  • Flexible timing and scheduling of processing day.

The Manual Chicken Scalder Is the Most Important Piece of Equipment

If you can only afford a plucker or a scalder, you choose the scalder. That’s how important a properly scalded chicken is. I use and recommend the Poultry Man line of commercial equipment for the small scale processor.

mike