Lots of requests on how I cut up a chicken. This information is great for those that raise their own meat birds and are sick of serving it all as a baked chicken and also for those that want to purchase a whole chicken at the grocery store and cut it up themselves. It saves a bit of money to cut up a chicken yourself because you aren't paying for the processing.

I raised 20 Cornish x and butchered 10 of them today by hand. That means, hot water bathed them over a fire and hand plucked them. We mainly butchered the roosters that have gotten much larger (and are feed hoggers) than the hens. The meat was gorgeous. I kept two as whole birds to do baked chicken and the rest I cut up. The whole process: kill, water bath, pluck, gut, cut up took about 6 hours including setup.
This is how they turned out! I am very impressed with the quality of meat.