Joe S.



         Joe, the butcher who taught us these steps and skills owns a farm with cows and pigs in which he births, feeds, and butchers for food. He butchers once every few months, with the exception of someone wanting to buy meat from him.
        Joe has 2 sons, who when they were younger would help butcher the cows and pigs and help eat them for nourishment.  

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How to butcher a chicken

1.     Slay the chicken by decapitation

2.     Close its eyes, rest in peace lil chicken

3.     Dispose of your chicken head so it may not come back as a zombie

4.     Boil your chicken, names are optional, for 30 seconds

5.     Pull out their flying devices, also known as feathers

6.     Burn off the little hairs by use of torch or lighter

7.     Cut open your chicken from poopchute, anus to rib cage

8.     Take out the gizzard and take out the inside then clean muscle parts to place in bag

9.     Pull out intestines, don’t poop your chicken

10. Reach inside and dig lungs out, as well as other organs

11. You may keep the liver and heart for eating

12. Wash off the liver and heart if kept

13. Cut at top of feet until reaching bone, snap the bone then cut in between the joints all the way through

14. You may dispose of feet, as usual, or may keep to eat, very little food is on this

15. Cut off wings and thighs by use of the same technique by snapping the bone and cutting through the ball and socket

16. Wash off thighs and wings, place in bag with liver and heart

17. Cut your chicken in half long ways through the rib section

18. Clean out chest cavity even more, take out connective tissue etc

19. Clean off chicken remains and place in bag

20.  Place bag of chicken in fridge

Here is an example of how to cut off the neck

21. Cook later and enjoy 

How to butcher a rabbit

The steps in skinning and cutting up a rabbit:

1.          KILL the rabbit, hit the back of the neck to stun

2.     Slit the rabbit's throat, use any knife as long as it is sharp

3.     Cut head off

4.     Hang it upside down

5.     Cut shallow so it only goes through the first layer of skin

6.     Pull open the fur

7.     Cut around the ankles

8.     Cut around genitalia and anus

9.     Pull fur down and off

1.          Cut through second layer and pull/cut out all intestines, this will look more like a chicken

2.          Take out all organs such as heart and lungs

3.          Break the joints around the feet

4.          Cut off feet where the ball and socket is, cut through where the ball is where it attaches

5.          Break all joints and cut off limbs where ball and socket is

6.         On back feet, cut at the knee and then the thigh, cut all the way through and take off

7.         On front feet, cut it as a whole

8.          Cut off sides, which would be used as bacon if it was a pig, which is the second skin in the abdominal area

9.         Cut off shoulder muscle

10.     Cut off muscle on the back, the loins

11.     Cut off muscle on the ribs

12.     Cut off all connective tissue from the all muscle

13.     Discard organs, liver and heart are edible so you may keep them to eat

14.     Wash off edible pieces

15.     Put in a bag in the fridge

16.     Wash utensils

This is part of skinning the rabbit