Chicken and Poultry Processing Intensives 2025

Ready to revolutionize your farming game?

Dive into our Chicken Processing Intensive and take charge of your farm-to-table journey like never before! Get hands-on experience from field to freezer, ensuring only the finest, farm-raised chickens make it to your table. You'll get to work alongside our expert crew, mastering butchering techniques so you can maximize savings and unleashing your creativity on your own homestead farm.

Join us on this exciting adventure and empower yourself with the knowledge to produce premium poultry from start to finish. Secure your spot today and unlock the full potential of your homestead! Only 5 spots per offered day, and they fill up fast!

Are you ready to take your farming to the next level? Does that involve chicken processing?

Enjoy the independence and security that comes with knowing how to raise and process chicken for your own table. If you want to produce the chicken your family eats, from a 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, you’ll walk through the process so you can go home and get started!

You’ve gotten good at raising your own chickens, right? Now it’s time to learn how to process chickens to complete the circle. Want to see exactly how we raise our pastured poultry and make the whole farm system work? Add a Baker's Green Acres farm tour with Mark and stay for lunch so you can see and talk through all the processes and get your questions answered.

This comprehensive chicken (and other poultry) processing class is what you’ve been looking for. And you won’t just watch it happen. Oh, no! You will work alongside our expert, highly experienced crew and get in there are do every step so you know that when you go home you can process your own birds from start to finish.

This 3 hour intensive includes:

• Exact “how to” from picking up the chickens in the field to having them ready to go into the freezer.
• Working with our expert crew at every station in the process.
• Get to practice each stage of processing chickens so that you feel confident when you do your own.
• See how a custom processing business operates.
• May include other poultry or rabbits, entirely dependent upon the day's schedule. There are no promises or guarantees.
• May include how to cut up a chicken.
• A handbook so you have a reminder of the process when you get home.

Why Butcher Your Own Farm-Raised Chickens?

1. Elevate Quality:

When you leave the farm after this class, you’ll have full control over the butchering process, ensuring only the finest chickens, raised by yourself, grace your farm-to-table offerings. Bid farewell to mass-produced mediocrity and embrace the premium taste of farm-fresh poultry that discerning palettes crave.

1. Build Trust Through Transparency:

In an era of heightened consumer awareness, transparency is non-negotiable. And what better transparency and trust than self reliance on your own skills? By butchering your own chickens, you get unparalleled traceability and food security, knowing exactly how your food was handled from start to the final finish. Be secure in your commitment to ethical farming practices and food security

1. Maximize Savings:

Every farmer knows the value of efficiency. By mastering chicken butchering, you slash overhead costs associated with outsourcing processing, maximizing your precious dollars. Our course teaches you efficient techniques to minimize waste and maximize yield, ensuring every dollar counts.

1. Unleash Creativity:

Break free from the constraints of standard cuts and sizes. With our guidance, you'll discover the joy of customizing chicken portions to suit your preferences. From succulent breasts to flavorful giblets, the possibilities are endless. Get creative in the kitchen and watch your family thrive on your homegrown fare!

1. Empowerment and Independence:

There's a sense of empowerment that comes from mastering a new skill. By learning chicken processing and butchery, you become more self-sufficient, reducing reliance on external suppliers and increasing your farm's autonomy. Gain the confidence to tackle new challenges and revel in the satisfaction of self-reliance.

Ready to take your homesteading and farming to new heights? Grab your seat in this Chicken Processing course today and unlock the full potential of your homestead. Whether you're a seasoned farmer seeking to diversify or a newcomer eager to learn, our class has something for everyone. Savor the rewards of producing premium poultry from start to finish.

Join us and take the next step towards success in farming.