Come to the Holler Homestead and learn all about meat chickens! This year, we chose a slower growing variety of meat chicken that does really well on forage: the Ginger Roaster!

As part of your class you will learn:

• The overview of raising meat birds including how we do it, tractoring, feed, and costs
• Basic food safety practices
• Hands on experience of processing your chicken
  • Dispatching
  • Scalding
  • Plucking
  • Eviscerating
  • Parting
  • Storage
• Cooking practices for pasture-raised chicken

You will also go home with:

• A chicken to cook!
• Your copy of Nicole Sauce’s processing guide, “Don’t Be A Chicken: A Guide the Processing Poultry”

Class includes: a non-chicken-based lunch, coffee

What to bring:

• A cooler to transport your chicken
• A change of clothing just in case
• A towel if you want to use our outdoor shower