This is the best chicken processing video I've seen. Such a clean and smooth operation ending in a well packaged product. Major kudos to Kingbird Farm to showing how much potential small farms have.
What an operation! Thanks for these videos, this is an awesome series, of a family that does farming exactly how I want to. It's really, really good information, here. I love how diverse it is, and how humane the treatment of the animals is. That's so great. I hope you're well, eight years on, Kingbird folks!
@SaddleViewFarm The heat shrink bags can be purchased from Cornerstone Farm Ventures in Norwich, NY. I'm sure other businesses sell them too, but that is the one I'm familiar with. A google search will pull up their site.
Great video. You take a lot better care of your chickens and your processing is so much cleaner then those massive slaughter facilities!! Thanks for sharing.
Outstanding video!! The video imagery was great and the narration was spot on! I fully support small farms, and I think you have an outstanding operation! I wish you great success in your endeavor!!
Thank you for making this video I found it very helpful. I have watched it several times. We are just starting out and I have bought some lessons already. The water temp is a big one.
Its hard for some people to understand how this type of setup creates an all around better quality product. Its obvious that you take better care of your birds then the big slaughter facilities and the processing is efficient. thanks for sharing!
P.S. You will be our model when we process our chickens in Panama. Beautifully done video and we appreciate you sharing. (P.S.S. His birds are sold to a local restaurant.)
This was excellent video. thank you for posting. fantastic operation. and agree with others would love to how the plucker and scalder were made lol. love the channel.
I think this is pretty awesome. I worked for Tyson in management for 5 years before going to another company. I think you pretty much have all the bases covered except for the bird diseases. Being free range I'm sure that it's not as much an issue, but some good insurance wouldn't hurt.
Another fantastic video! How did you construct the chicken plucker? I'm especially interested in the motorized device on the bottom. I'll be making one this summer.
Awesome video, thank you! I am going to build some killing cones out of traffic cones and I really like your setup. You gut the chicken much faster then I ever have and I like your technique! I'll have to try it. Do you keep the heart, liver and giblets?
just like everyone else, i'm impressed! did you learn the open slaughter shed techniques from the polyface farm? they look similar. wish we had a bit more room for the same!
this is amazing video i had never seen chiken process like that before .Once my father gaved me a chiken after he slaughter it and asked to pluck it and cut the legs and ..... i spent 2 hours doing that
@BOBLOL00 Gloves actually make the whole process more difficult. When eviscerating (removing the guts), it's especially important to be able to feel exactly what you're doing, to make sure you remove the crop, lungs, kidneys, and all other organs. Farmers always wash their hands frequently throughout the process and spray out the inside of the bird before bagging it. Also, USDA recommends cooking poultry to an internal temp of 160-165, because it kills any pathogens that might remain.
Hi!! I've been amazed with every piece of information shared through these videos. They are so inspiring. I'm from Chile, and I would love to start in this kind of business. I would like to know, what's the size of the cryovac bags she uses in this video because I will have to order those to the States to a company named Wasserstrom, since I haven't found them in my country, so I need the exact measurement to avoid any mistake and waste of money with the order. I'd really appreciate your answer.
My favorite poultry is Capons, for the sheer size....do you ever castrate, or do you just feed the cockerells and pullets till they are close to that size?
The bags we purchased from Cornerstone Farm need to be punctured before dunked in hot water. I didn't see you do that, how did you avoid it? How many birds are you two and/or three able to process an hour with that setup? Thanks!
Please!! I really need to know the brand of your criovac bags. There are different options in the net, but I'm not sure if all of them would shrink propperly with boiling water. Please!! help me!!!
2:20 Are the birds conscious when their throat is cut? Is anything done to reduce the pain of having their throats cut and the blood drained out of them? I wonder if this is actually worse than what would happen in a slaughterhouse.
Where can these CryoVac bags be purchased and what is the kind they/you guys are using in this video. This is exactly what I am looking for. I am currently wrapping and freezing with freezewrap but it is frankly a pain. Please advise. Thanks!
Okay let me wade through the torrent of pro/anti meat flames here and ask a question relevant to the video. How do you dispose of the entrails? Also, what do you do with the heads and feet? I know some cultures do consume all parts of the bird but it's not real traditional here in the US, so how do you handle them? Market or dispose?
Is there any USDA regulations you have to follow when your slaughtering chickens. If i wanted to try and farm and slaughter what would i need to get done. How many chicken could you free range per acre.
I noticed your label indicates Organic Chicken... do you have your Organic Cert or are you simply raising basis organic practices. I am under the impression that you need to be certified as an Organic farm to label and market as an Organic item... thoughts?
if you do a hundred a day does that mean you only have 10 days worth of work? what do you do with the other 355 days? Im not being rude, just wondering, I am getting into rabbit poultry and will be using the same exemption as you do in NY but Im in SC and we can do 5000 turkeys or 20000 poultry without a permit. Loved the vid by the way, gonna get some of those bags for me!! good Idea!
Do you use the feet, heads, necks, hearts, livers, kidneys, stomach, gizzards, or intestines? All are edible and nutritious and need to be factored in to calculations about sustainability. Doesn't take much to sepearate out the heads & feet, hearts, and livers at the very least, the gizzards, stomach and intestines require minimal processing.
Karma's farm is certified organic by NOFA NY. And yes, you are right that you MUST be certified organic in order to market your products as organic. The only exception is if you sell less than $5,000 in product each year, and you follow all the organic rules. Then you can call yourself organic without the certification.
Thank you great video ,plus I love chicken . We are human' and we are made to eat meat too not just veg . If you wish to eat veg that's up to you. Once again great video and great info..
I watched my neighbors in Panama, process chickens today for the first time and I was horrified. He cut its neck and then dipped the bird under the blood of the other 49 birds that been processed before I arrived. He then rinsed the bird in water that had not been changed all day-- Hand plucked it-- rinsed it again in water that had not been changed all day and then washed it with straight dishwasher detergent after they had disemboweled it.
If the state allows you to process and sell 1000 birds or less without being regulated it proves the regulations are not about food safety, but about protecting the large companies from competition. If it was about food safety, you would not be allowed to process and sell even one chicken.
It's kind of a shame to put those organic, naturally raised chickens into plastic. What kinds of chemicals are released onto the meat when the bags are heated? Not sure what a better packaging material would be made of; paper works for me, but we keep the freezer cold and the 'frost-free' cycle OFF (saves energy, too).
@rapunzel1966 If you think this is cruel, then you should see this: watch?v=VoY8FHzg4jU - there are more videos on their channel exposing the horrific conditions and treatment of animals on large scale farms. Next time you shop for meat, spend that extra money and choose to buy from small scale farms like Kingbird, if everyone did then the large scale farming would end or at least change to the better, for both the animals and peoples health.
im 14 years old and i can see how someone could think this was cruel. but what you have to understand is without people like this, you wouldnt be able to eat chicken, if this is cruel? then how do you suggest you kill them more humanely? there is alot worse ways to keep and kill chickens. im an animal lover, i have chickens myself and i could never kill them but thats me. i've seen some horrific animal cruelty on videos, comparing this to that, this really isnt that bad.
I hope you don't just throw away all the insides! I feed my dogs a raw diet and use and buy chicken necks, livers, hearts, gizzards, etc. if you don't currently, you should bag the organs and necks separately and sell them cheap for people that feed their dogs a BARF diet, you could definitely get some money for them and make some dogs or cats very happy =)
+Nathan Sandavol - Because we evolved to the top of the food chain, thats why. We didn't evolve to eat vegetation. Why dont you go cry about the humans being bombed, or the women being subjected to involuntary circumcisions. Better yet, why dont you grab a weapon and put your @$s on the line for your beliefs, instead of being a keyboard troll.
This is the best chicken processing video I've seen. Such a clean and smooth operation ending in a well packaged product. Major kudos to Kingbird Farm to showing how much potential small farms have.
What an operation! Thanks for these videos, this is an awesome series, of a family that does farming exactly how I want to. It's really, really good information, here. I love how diverse it is, and how humane the treatment of the animals is. That's so great. I hope you're well, eight years on, Kingbird folks!
@SaddleViewFarm
The heat shrink bags can be purchased from Cornerstone Farm Ventures in Norwich, NY. I'm sure other businesses sell them too, but that is the one I'm familiar with. A google search will pull up their site.
HI THERE AGAIN I HAVE BEEN AROUND UA-cam FOR INFO ON CHICKEN ,BUT I KEEP COMING BACK TO YOU . REASON YOU GIVE THE BEST INFO BY FAR THANK YOU..
Great video. You take a lot better care of your chickens and your processing is so much cleaner then those massive slaughter facilities!! Thanks for sharing.
Outstanding video!! The video imagery was great and the narration was spot on! I fully support small farms, and I think you have an outstanding operation! I wish you great success in your endeavor!!
Thank you for making this video I found it very helpful. I have watched it several times. We are just starting out and I have bought some lessons already. The water temp is a big one.
well done i cannot have enough watching this process,smooth process, educative, thanks
Awesome information! thanks for putting this together for the rest of us to learn from.
Its hard for some people to understand how this type of setup creates an all around better quality product. Its obvious that you take better care of your birds then the big slaughter facilities and the processing is efficient. thanks for sharing!
P.S. You will be our model when we process our chickens in Panama. Beautifully done video and we appreciate you sharing. (P.S.S. His birds are sold to a local restaurant.)
Wow...I am learning a lot watching your videos and others. It makes me want to do something similar but on a much smaller scale.
Great video! Thank you for sharing your process details!
This was excellent video. thank you for posting. fantastic operation. and agree with others would love to how the plucker and scalder were made lol. love the channel.
Thanks for the advice about the bags. I'm going to look for those!
Thank you for this excellent educational video! Great operation!
Thank you, I want to do my own, small scale here in Australia, 20-30 per batch, very good video
After seeing this, i used those bags and omg they are amazing
remember doing this as a kid at my grandmas farm good memories!
GREAT AND HUMANE FACILITY YOU HAVE...WELL DONE!
Nice set up
Nice.... I may have to stop by and pick up a few, they look yummy..
loved the video.... thanks for sharing....
Great job. Hoping in the future I will be as big as u guys.
I think this is pretty awesome. I worked for Tyson in management for 5 years before going to another company. I think you pretty much have all the bases covered except for the bird diseases. Being free range I'm sure that it's not as much an issue, but some good insurance wouldn't hurt.
Wow I love those bags!
Thank you for sharing
Another fantastic video! How did you construct the chicken plucker? I'm especially interested in the motorized device on the bottom. I'll be making one this summer.
This is fantastic!!!!
Awesome video, thank you! I am going to build some killing cones out of traffic cones and I really like your setup. You gut the chicken much faster then I ever have and I like your technique! I'll have to try it. Do you keep the heart, liver and giblets?
The only thing I see different from 12 years ago is the paddling pool full of toddlers near the processing area. :) You guys are awesome!!
Where can I get those cryovac bags from. Love your setup. Should maybe do some plans for that plucker. Would do alot for small farmers worldwide
just like everyone else, i'm impressed! did you learn the open slaughter shed techniques from the polyface farm? they look similar. wish we had a bit more room for the same!
it's a homemade plucker built using the plans from the book "How to Build a Whizbang Chicken Plucker" which you can find with an online search.
great video...
this is amazing video i had never seen chiken process like that before .Once my father gaved me a chiken after he slaughter it and asked to pluck it and cut the legs and ..... i spent 2 hours doing that
Very nice video
@BOBLOL00 Gloves actually make the whole process more difficult. When eviscerating (removing the guts), it's especially important to be able to feel exactly what you're doing, to make sure you remove the crop, lungs, kidneys, and all other organs. Farmers always wash their hands frequently throughout the process and spray out the inside of the bird before bagging it. Also, USDA recommends cooking poultry to an internal temp of 160-165, because it kills any pathogens that might remain.
Good video.
nice video
what do you do with the guts, heads, and feet? Great video by the way.
Hi!! I've been amazed with every piece of information shared through these videos. They are so inspiring. I'm from Chile, and I would love to start in this kind of business. I would like to know, what's the size of the cryovac bags she uses in this video because I will have to order those to the States to a company named Wasserstrom, since I haven't found them in my country, so I need the exact measurement to avoid any mistake and waste of money with the order. I'd really appreciate your answer.
My favorite poultry is Capons, for the sheer size....do you ever castrate, or do you just feed the cockerells and pullets till they are close to that size?
Where do you get those cryovack bags? I'd love to get my hands on those when I start my farm.
The bags we purchased from Cornerstone Farm need to be punctured before dunked in hot water. I didn't see you do that, how did you avoid it? How many birds are you two and/or three able to process an hour with that setup? Thanks!
Please!! I really need to know the brand of your criovac bags. There are different options in the net, but I'm not sure if all of them would shrink propperly with boiling water. Please!! help me!!!
Very interesting.
karma, i love the idea of using covac bags could you please lt me know where to look online. thank you for your help.
I am curious about your homemade plucker. How did you make it? Are there plans anywhere? Inquiring and frugal minds need to know.
Where do you get your lables from
2:20 Are the birds conscious when their throat is cut? Is anything done to reduce the pain of having their throats cut and the blood drained out of them? I wonder if this is actually worse than what would happen in a slaughterhouse.
I'm sure I can, but I'm using this as one of my sources for this project on doing on Poultry Processing and stuff.
Where can these CryoVac bags be purchased and what is the kind they/you guys are using in this video. This is exactly what I am looking for. I am currently wrapping and freezing with freezewrap but it is frankly a pain. Please advise. Thanks!
Do you have an issue with flies when you process your chickens in Summer?
Were did u get the bags at.
Okay let me wade through the torrent of pro/anti meat flames here and ask a question relevant to the video. How do you dispose of the entrails? Also, what do you do with the heads and feet? I know some cultures do consume all parts of the bird but it's not real traditional here in the US, so how do you handle them? Market or dispose?
what breed are these? do you hatch these yourselves or buy chicks?
@cornellsmallfarms where do u get the bags
Thank you for making these videos really appreciate it.
Bubba Smith
How long do you leave them in the chill tank?
Is there any USDA regulations you have to follow when your slaughtering chickens. If i wanted to try and farm and slaughter what would i need to get done. How many chicken could you free range per acre.
really great yummy chickens
KingBird Farm your awesome.
how did you make th plucker i raise my own birds and am an avid hunter and plucking by hand is a real hastle
We're could you get the bags at? Website or Shop?
nice video...its food..
I noticed your label indicates Organic Chicken... do you have your Organic Cert or are you simply raising basis organic practices. I am under the impression that you need to be certified as an Organic farm to label and market as an Organic item... thoughts?
if you do a hundred a day does that mean you only have 10 days worth of work? what do you do with the other 355 days? Im not being rude, just wondering, I am getting into rabbit poultry and will be using the same exemption as you do in NY but Im in SC and we can do 5000 turkeys or 20000 poultry without a permit. Loved the vid by the way, gonna get some of those bags for me!! good Idea!
Can we get plans on how to build a plucker?
Do you use the feet, heads, necks, hearts, livers, kidneys, stomach, gizzards, or intestines? All are edible and nutritious and need to be factored in to calculations about sustainability.
Doesn't take much to sepearate out the heads & feet, hearts, and livers at the very least, the gizzards, stomach and intestines require minimal processing.
What kind of plucker do you use?
Great!
Karma's farm is certified organic by NOFA NY. And yes, you are right that you MUST be certified organic in order to market your products as organic. The only exception is if you sell less than $5,000 in product each year, and you follow all the organic rules. Then you can call yourself organic without the certification.
where do you put chichen gut?
This is completely natural! Keep it up!
Cool !
What kinda chicken are those?
Interesting. I am glad you showed the whole "process". You seem to have a very well run operation.
Thank you great video ,plus I love chicken . We are human' and we are made to eat meat too not just veg . If you wish to eat veg that's up to you. Once again great video and great info..
such a good life
i wish i had it
How long that the chicken expire
That's a nice family business....
Could you please tell what is the name of that bag? Crio bag? Who makes them?
Did she ever tell you what what's the name of that bag?
Ordinary polyethylene PE bags!
Another great YouTUbe video on on-farm small-scale poultry processing: River Cottage Australia E04 PRT02
Why the dont cut their head complately at first. İ mean he barely cut head but not behead, why?
can i come to your farm for lessons your good thank you
I watched my neighbors in Panama, process chickens today for the first time and I was horrified. He cut its neck and then dipped the bird under the blood of the other 49 birds that been processed before I arrived. He then rinsed the bird in water that had not been changed all day-- Hand plucked it-- rinsed it again in water that had not been changed all day and then washed it with straight dishwasher detergent after they had disemboweled it.
I bet your chicken tastes awesome compared to commercial grade commodity.
If the state allows you to process and sell 1000 birds or less without being regulated it proves the regulations are not about food safety, but about protecting the large companies from competition. If it was about food safety, you would not be allowed to process and sell even one chicken.
It's kind of a shame to put those organic, naturally raised chickens into plastic. What kinds of chemicals are released onto the meat when the bags are heated? Not sure what a better packaging material would be made of; paper works for me, but we keep the freezer cold and the 'frost-free' cycle OFF (saves energy, too).
@rapunzel1966 If you think this is cruel, then you should see this: watch?v=VoY8FHzg4jU - there are more videos on their channel exposing the horrific conditions and treatment of animals on large scale farms. Next time you shop for meat, spend that extra money and choose to buy from small scale farms like Kingbird, if everyone did then the large scale farming would end or at least change to the better, for both the animals and peoples health.
if you where here in switzerland, i would ONLY buy chicken from you....
im 14 years old and i can see how someone could think this was cruel. but what you have to understand is without people like this, you wouldnt be able to eat chicken, if this is cruel? then how do you suggest you kill them more humanely? there is alot worse ways to keep and kill chickens. im an animal lover, i have chickens myself and i could never kill them but thats me. i've seen some horrific animal cruelty on videos, comparing this to that, this really isnt that bad.
I hope you don't just throw away all the insides! I feed my dogs a raw diet and use and buy chicken necks, livers, hearts, gizzards, etc. if you don't currently, you should bag the organs and necks separately and sell them cheap for people that feed their dogs a BARF diet, you could definitely get some money for them and make some dogs or cats very happy =)
Even plastics not exposed to heat transfer harmful chemicals to our foods & drinks. Sigh.
gojaaa hala hala
They compost all that for the herb part of their business.
Omg
Evil. You kill chickens without any remorse! How can you slaughterer living creatures!
+Nathan Sandavol - Because we evolved to the top of the food chain, thats why. We didn't evolve to eat vegetation. Why dont you go cry about the humans being bombed, or the women being subjected to involuntary circumcisions. Better yet, why dont you grab a weapon and put your @$s on the line for your beliefs, instead of being a keyboard troll.
Yep, showing your intelligence there. Go find your safe room so your feelings dont get hurt.
+Mrplace001 okay bro. You take care now.
Simple, cut their throats with a finely sharp knife. : )
Are you borned to be vegan because of your parents?
Look at their face...they know they're gonna die.