Pasture Poultry and Chicken Processing

Beginner:

Course Overview:

​Ready to enjoy some independence from the grocery store and experience the ease of raising your own chickens? 

Chickens are the “gateway animal” and a fabulous, accessible way to start your homestead adventure. In just 8-12 short weeks you absolutely can start putting meat you raised in your backyard on the table.

This class will give you a hands-on opportunity to experience the ease of raising meat chickens from brooder to butcher in your own backyard. 

 Make your deposit today to hold your place in the class!

Course Outline:

Enjoy the independence and security that comes with knowing how to raise and process chicken for your own table, along with the assurance that comes from having experienced the process hands-on. Anyone Can Farm!

This class will give you the confidence to know you “can-do” this farm “gateway” animal.  If you want to produce the chicken your family eats, from roasted chicken to chicken nuggets and ground chicken (or turkey), this class will shorten your learning curve and save you time and money. From field to freezer, brooder to processing, you’ll walk through the process so you can go home and get started! 

In this hands-on, on farm class you will:

• See various ways to start chicks and care for chicks in the brooder
• Move chickens on the pasture and experience how to raise pastured poultry with ease
• See exactly how our automatic watering system works
• Process at least 2 chickens, including scald, pluck, eviscerate, processing of organs and cutting up the chicken
• See how poultry fit into a whole farm regenerative system with a farm tour of Baker’s Green Acres
• This hands-on, on farm class will also cover:
  • how to start your chicks and manage them as they grow,
  • managing diseases and predation
  • building a chicken tractor (mobile chicken pen).
  • how to butcher chickens, including using the whole chicken (feet, organs, etc.) and creating various cuts and pastured poultry products.
  • marketing and economics of pastured poultry
• Enjoy the independence and security that comes with knowing how to raise and process chicken for your own table, along with the assurance that comes from having experienced the process hands-on. Anyone Can Farm! This class will give you the confidence to know you “can-do” this farm “gateway” animal.  If you want to produce the chicken your family eats, from roasted chicken to chicken nuggets and ground chicken (or turkey), this class will shorten your learning curve and save you time and money. From field to freezer, brooder to processing, you’ll walk through the process so you can go home and get Started!

INCLUDES

• By coming to the on-farm class, you get these extra bonuses:
  • Bonus: Take home your 2 chickens to show off your new skills
  • Bonus: Get professional quality photos of you from throughout the class
  • Bonus: Receive access to the Chicken, Turkey, and Duck processing video course for review
  • Bonus: Lunch with the Baker family (chicken, of course!) and an opportunity to visit with the whole farm crew (a.k.a. “The family”)