Break your windows chicken

You will hear a pop, and the joint will be exposed. Once again, return the bird to the starting position with the breast face up. Flip it over, with the cavity facing you. Use a pair of kitchen shears to cut down both sides of the backbone similar to the way we did with the spatchcocking technique. Remove the backbone and set it aside.

Kitchen shears, similar to larger, thick scissors, will give you more control with short, precise snips when cutting down the backbone.

Instead of throwing away the backbone, keep it for another use. Place the chicken breast-side up once more. Carefully cut through the skin and into the flesh to the right side of the bone.

Use your knife to follow down the breast along the bone, cutting away the meat and leaving as little of the breast behind on the bone as possible. Repeat this process with the other breast. Set aside the breasts and save the remaining carcass piece for another use, as described above. Return the two legs to your cutting board. Take one and place it so the leg is sticking up in the air towards the ceiling. You will cut through the skin, and then through the meat and cartilage.

This will feel similar to separating the wings from the breast like you did in Step 1. From my own experience, I have just a few extra notes as you are going through the process of butchering a whole birdie. If you find that you are excessively tearing and damaging the skin, your knife may be too dull. A well-sharpened knife will be able to make quick, clean cuts through the skin and meat without tearing and pulling the skin. I do not recommend starting with a frozen chicken when you are cutting.

If you are using poultry you bought frozen, be sure to let it thaw completely in the refrigerator to soften the skin and meat. You can remove the skin from the pieces of meat to get perfectly skinless breasts and other portions that we love so much for many of our chicken dishes , like our chicken Marsala dinner.

Gently pull the skin off the meat, using your knife to cut through any skin that might be sticking to the meat. Have you ever tried to break down a whole chicken before? Tell us about your experiences in the comments below.

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It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter mcf3kids Start date Mar 29, Sort by date Sort by reaction score. Mar 24, 8 We are building our first coop and I am putting in two glass windows for ventilation and natural light. I am wondering if chickens peck at the glass and could they break it?

Thank you for your help!! Mar 9, 34 Yelm, WA. I have glass windows and my girls peck at the windows with no problems.

The glass isn't that fragile. That said, if something scared the begeezus out of the and they flew wildly into it, can't answer you there. I'm banking on that not happening! Thomas Songster 10 Years. Mar 21, 6 Port Deposit, MD.

I don't know if they can break it or not, but were put wire over the inside as added protection for them and against anything breaking in from the outside. The problem with the wire is dust collects in there and it's hard to clean out. PapaChaz Crowing 9 Years. May 25, 2, NW Georgia. Quote: go to the computer aisle at walmart and get you a couple cans of that compressed air, get that dust right out of there! Feb 3, 79, 14, 1, Blue Ridge Mtns. If it's right in front of the roost, they could break it.

We did this, a hinged hardware cloth screen on the inside. That way, we can open the window and it's predator proof, plus they won't break the window if one flies into it. I have an air compresser but it really blows it around so to be honest, I only do it once a year.

They make the dust, they'll be fine is my thinking. I love what you did to cover the window and still have access to it. Thanks for the idea and the responses! Mar 22, 2 We found an old garden herb window like they put in kitchens. The chickens love it. The windows slide open so screens are open in summer re-enforced with hard wire and closed in winter but they can climb in and get sun baths!