How to Slaughter Chicken Training Course

Posted on June 22, 2013 by admin

At sometime in your chicken keeping you’ll have a bird that needs to be culled, either because it is ill, injured or you may have decided to raise your own meat birds.  Whilst many home poultry keepers will make use of a local vet for the occasional bird that is beyond hope, if you keep a number of birds or wish to raise a few meat birds, slaughtering chickens is a job you really need to be able to do yourself especially as the rules governing mobile slaughter houses has recently changed.

We’d like to introduce you to Lewis Wescott who runs poultry keeping training courses, including one on how to dispatch, pluck and gut your own chickens.  This course is targeted at people wishing to prepare their own chickens for their own use and doesn’t cover commercial production.

I run courses on Chicken Keeping for Beginners and more Advance courses; everything you need to know when starting out with chickens, covering everything from housing to handling.
I recently spent a week at the BBC Gardeners World Live show promoting keeping poultry and had a great time with some of my Pekin bantams giving ‘Chicken Keeping for Beginners’ talks at the show and in the VIP lounge.

Having worked with poultry for many years I am often asked for help dispatching cockerels or ill birds for people and so thought we could run an educational course.
The first course in Wales went so well we have found a working smallholding to run a weekend of courses from; near Aberystwyth in West Wales atop of a mountain, the views have to be seen to believed!
I myself attended a similar course 4 years ago and have worked on a Free Range Turkey processing farm for the run up to Christmas.
As a recent Animal Science graduate I have learnt all about where our food comes from and have seen a massive increase in the numbers of people striving towards self sufficiency. With increasing numbers of people hatching chicks, I feel it is only responsible to learn how to humanely dispatch cockerels, especially dual purpose breeds whose cockerels can e raised for the table.
Courses are held in small groups of 6-8 people and ran in a friendly manner using the humane and efficient broomstick method of dispatch. You will be taught to pluck this bird which is then taken home to finish preparing later to reinforce what you have learnt on the day.
You will be given a previously dispatched and plucked bird to learn how to gut and prepare for the table, in a newly renovated kitchen workshop – this is also taken home for you to later cook and enjoy.
After the course we are offering an evening BBQ and camping to make the day into a social weekend!
Cook your newly processed bird on our brand new rotisserie BBQ and enjoy the coastal views surrounded by rare breed goats, sheep, ponies llamas and poultry, or spend time and relax in the Tavern!
The cost of the course is £75 per person to include 2 meat birds, course notes, goody bags and optional camping.

You'll learn how to slaught, pluck, and prepare your chicken to be cooked.

You’ll learn how to prepare your chicken

For more information,

visit DrChickenCourses.co.uk,

email info@DrChicken.co.uk

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Having worked with poultry for many years I am often asked for help dispatching cockerels or ill birds for people and so thought we could run an educational course. The first course in Wales went so well we have found a working smallholding to run a weekend of courses from; near Aberystwyth in West Wales atop of a mountain, the views have to be seen to believed! I myself attended a similar course 4 years ago and have worked on a Free Range Turkey processing farm for the run up to Christmas. As a recent Animal Science graduate I have learnt all about where our food comes from and have seen a massive increase in the numbers of people striving towards self sufficiency. With increasing numbers of people hatching chicks, I feel it is only responsible to learn how to humanely dispatch cockerels, especially dual purpose breeds whose cockerels can e raised for the table. Courses are held in small groups of 6-8 people and ran in a friendly manner using the humane and efficient broomstick method of dispatch. You will be taught to pluck this bird which is then taken home to finish preparing later to reinforce what you have learnt on the day. You will be given a previously dispatched and plucked bird to learn how to gut and prepare for the table, in a newly renovated kitchen workshop - this is also taken home for you to later cook and enjoy. After the course we are offering an evening BBQ and camping to make the day into a social weekend! Cook your newly processed bird on our brand new rotisserie BBQ and enjoy the coastal views surrounded by rare breed goats, sheep, ponies llamas and poultry, or spend time and relax in the Tavern! The cost of the course is £75 per person to include 2 meat birds, course notes, goody bags and optional camping.

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Once upon a time, not so very long ago Auntie Bev arrived at Louise's 16th birthday clutching a rather tatty box, full of holes and tied up with orange baler twine. Louise opened the box and out sprang two chickens. (And also the birth of Wells Poultry but we didn't realise until later) Louise thought this was great although Lesley (Louise's mum) was not impressed to say the least. Now, a cardboard box isn't the best home for a pair of chickens so next morning I was off to that well know DIY shop in search of timber with a vague idea of what a chicken house looked like. And so our first chicken house was created. Sadly these first two chickens were swiped by a fox within a few weeks so we bought a trio of birds from a local breeder. I'm sure that is a familiar story to a lot of people - 2 chickens become 3 and then 3 become 6 and then you need more housing..... Suffice to say, six months later I was building chicken houses full time in the back garden of a terrace house in Reading. Another year on and we moved to Wales for more space and the business continued to grow. We're now preparing to open our new workshop which will double our current space and allow us to take on more staff.... We attribute much of our success to the fact that we are very similar to many of our customers, we're content to keep a few chickens in the back garden as much for amusement as the eggs they produce. We don't have acres of land so know the limitations a back garden flock. And we firmly believe that the only time you'll need to buy another chicken house is when you need a bigger one not because it's fallen apart.
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